Over on my blog I asked for some good breakfast ideas for hungry kids . . . and let me tell you! There are some fantastic ideas coming in over there! So if you’re in need of some new recipes give it a look – and if you have any great recipes of your own to share then I’m totally eager to hear them! (And you’ll get a shot at a Tintin book to boot!)
Monthly Archive for July, 2010
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Ben Merkle has written a very helpful piece called “Guilty Parents” over on the Credenda website.
Since I’m on a roll, I thought I’d include the recipe I’m making for Heather’s bday tomorrow. It’s the easiest ice cream recipe in the world, doesn’t have the custard to cook, no eggs, and tastes fresh and yummy. If you just happen to have three quarts of half and half taking up space in your fridge, and you don’t know what you’re going to do with it, here’s your answer. Mix three cups of sugar with one cup of the half and half and stir until it is dissolved. Then add the rest of the half and half and stir in 4 tsp. good vanilla (imitation vanilla just isn’t vanilla) and 1 tsp salt. Chill it up nicely in the fridge and then freeze it in your ice cream maker. Now is that easy, or what?
Have you ever made a big pot of coffee and then everyone changed their mind and went for something cold instead? And who wants to throw out a perfectly beautiful pot of fresh-brewed coffee? Well, here’s what you do. Pull out some of those plastic ice trays and fill them up with the leftovers and freeze them. Later, move the frozen coffee cubes into zip locks. Then when you want to wow everyone with a crazy wonderful coffee punch, you can pull them out and use this recipe. I have never worried too much about the exact quantities here, just make it and taste it as you go. I was making this long before I had ever heard of a Starbucks frappuccino, though it is in a different category all together.
Take a pot of freshly brewed coffee that you have cooled down, and combine it with 1 1/2 cups milk, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla, and 3/4 tsp. nutmeg. Set aside and whip up a cup of whipping cream. Take out your punch bowl and scoop out a pint of premium vanilla ice cream into the bowl in small scoops. Pour the coffee mixture over it, and add two trays of coffee ice cubes. Stir it gently and then top it with the dollops of whipping cream.
I’m telling you, if you serve this, you don’t have to even think about dessert. I’ve never tried to make a light version, but I’m sure it could be done. It’s the bee’s knees.
I’m about to get rebukeful.
Yes, I am. I know that I don’t usually launch into scriptural exhortations . . . but I just have a little something to say.
For a good number of years now I’ve been periodically hearing very sweet Christian women take the Lord’s name in vain. It surprises me every time – and I always stand there doing a mental double-take . . . replaying it again and wondering to myself if she just said what I thought she said or if I misheard. But no – I’ve heard it enough times now that I’m certain I’m not making this up. Quite honestly, I’m at a bit of a loss. I’m not really sure what the rationale is. (And, by way of making the situation weirder . . . I’ve never once heard a Christian guy do it. Not to say it doesn’t happen, but I’ve never been around when it did.)
Is it because it never occurred to them that it’s a problem to take the Lord’s name in vain? I doubt it . . . these are very established Christian ladies, and it’s not like they’ve never heard of this concept. Is it a total accidental slip up which is Continue reading ‘Stand Back!’
Well hello, everyone! I have been traveling, busy, brain-dead, unphotographable, or generally uninteresting for some time now! But I think that we may now be into the open spaces of summer here. (I am not yet photographable though. Worst luck!)
The kids are just as full of beans as they usually are, Blaire is getting more darling by the hour, and I am honing my one handed typing skills as I write. Strawberry jam is providing a nice shallow end play for the canning season – thus the badly punning title to this post, and the picture from my kitchen. I hope you are admiring my basket full of new tea towels- I love them so much! It is the little things in life, you know. And speaking of little things, this is about the best one I can think of -
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