We're back from vacation

What a great vacation!!  We were at the South Haven Flywheelers for the 29th annual tractor show last week and had so much fun!! It was a record year in attendance and we sure couldnt have been happier or prouder to be a part of it!~!
The boys had fun with us too and I love that we can have them with us there to share our vacation it just wouldnt be the same without our furry kiddos with!!   Even "Mr Naughty Pants" was pretty well behaved and seemed to enjoy camping out.   We stayed a couple days after the show to help with the cleanup and tidy things up.  Sad to see it over but in a way excited to start on next years show!! It will the the 30th year and they are wanting to do big and new things!!  Got some ideas floating around in my head for that too!

Here are some pics of what my mom and I made for labor day week markets.

Berry Berry Lemon bundt cake

Cake after my mom put on my "farmgirl bling"

Red raspberry pistachio muffins

Breakfast bake   topped with my french bread

another berry berry lemon cake sliced

lavender shortbread cookies in oven

pineapple cake cups

tomato basil zucchini topped pizzas

baked potato gnocchi with tomato basil sauce

onion foccacia loaves

Plus we made lots of other things but I ran out of time and forgot to take pics of the rest.

We have alot going on the next couple of days a dear friend of ours wife passed away and my hubby's grandfather has to have another surgery too so we are gonna be busy.   Tonight I am heading to the kitchen to work on things for market on sat.  I have an idea for a crispy chocolatey choc chip cookie and also want to make some cranberry orange shortbread cookies, zucchini bread, pumpkin bread pudding and well maybe that is all I will get done today!  Tomorrow will be a full day too getting things done.

Hope yall have a wonderful day and I will be back soon to share some fall primitives I am working on for my friends shop in Glenn.  She does have a facebook page for the shop so if ya get a chance chick it out!!   Farmhouse Prim Antique is the name, she has great stuff and also has an online catalog too so she will ship things to ya!!

Take Care

HUGS!!

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

almost weekend time~~

Yippee!  I cant wait for 3pm sat!! then I have the rest of sat and all of sunday to spend with my wonderful hubby and our "boys".   We just dont get enough time together anymore! both of us are busy and life is hectic so usually by the time he is getting home I am exhausted and am ready for bed! 
My mom and I had another busy week at the kitchen.  We did up lots of muffins, red raspberry butttermilk, blueberry buttermilk, lemon poppyseed, and some breads, my glazed pistachio, blueberry, raspberry, pine zucchini, and banana blueberry.  

I so love making muffins!!  And love BIG muffins!!  they rise up over the edge of pans making them so pretty!

These are the lemon poppyseed which were just lacking something.............yep yall know me!! added the "farmgirl bling" a fresh lemon glaze after they cooled off. 

here are some ready for packaging.

dilly beans

I so wish the beans would stay that pretty fresh green color!! and I did up some of our purple, green and yellow and of cource when u cook the purple ones they turn green!!  =( so pretty and would look beantastic in the 3 colors in a mason jar!! dangit!

My favo piece of kitchen equiptment!! the little hobart mixer making foccacia

here are a couple pans of garlic pepper foccacia cooling

My mom and I also made this yummy pasta casserole.  It has egg noodles, homemade tomato red pepper zucchini sauce, with sauteed onions, green peppers, zucchini, and then fresh pamesan cheese, and aged cheddar topped with fresh basil pieces.  YUMMY!

Ok so I am blessed to have awesome dear friends in this world thanks to my little farmstand!!  I have a couple of friends that let us walk thru their beautiful and I do mean BEAUTIFUL gardens.  While strolling around you are transformed into an enchanted peaceful place.  And it is just down the street from us.  So many gorgeous blooms and not just in one spot, they are all around their house. 

These bushes were so full and the flowers are so pretty! 

One of the many floral beds, yes as I was taking this pic the sprinklers came on and welllllllllllllll that cold water did feel pretty good!! LOL

This coleus is so pretty, looks like someone took a paintbrush and detailed each petal. 

I love these colors together.  What a relaxing place!!

Zinias are one of my favorite flowers and these were gorgeous. 

And look at the color of this rose of sharon.  My mom has one I bought her for mothers day and it is so pretty

And last is my absolutely favo pic!  they remind me of sunflowers! and I made sure to get the white rocker chairs in the pic!! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!

So I have a busy day tomorrow.  More zucchini bread, more pistachio bread, graham crackers, cookies, and some fruit, oatmeal and yogurt parfaits, plus more!! 

Hope yall have a wonderful evening!!

THANKS MOM for all the help at the kitchen lately!!

LOVE YOU!!  YOUR"E THE BEST!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

CSA workin wed

Hey everyone!!   WHEW!! What a wild wed it has been!!  This am I took my brother to his job, he volunteers with a job coach at Habitat for Humanity resale store.   He wipes things down and dusts shelves and so on.  His regular lady who he has had for umpteen years had to resign her position and we all miss her but I have taken on some of her things she did with him.   We had fun!!     when I got back it was time to get my butt to the kitchen and get things ready for tomorrow!!  This week's csa menu had the main entrees of :  tomato mushroom quiche with a cornbread crust and fresh thyme,  a pasta casserole with andouille sausage from Young Earth Farm and my homemade tomato sauce, our homemade cheese filled ravioli with a tomato basil sauce and then for bread options they had cheddar pepper bread or italian herb foccacia.

The filling chopped ingredients for quiche

Brought a couple dozen of our chicken eggs for the quiche  it took 22 eggs!!

The cornbread crust with a bit of fresh chopped thyme from Joe's herbs

Baked up and nice n golden

Cheddar pepper bread

nice and brown in the oven almost ready to pull it out!

my tomato basil noodles waiting for sauce

and there is the sauce

I thought it would look finished with a bit of farmgirl "bling"  LOL yepper it isnt just for baked goods!! LOL  some fresh chopped baby spinach and some parm bread crumbs 

I also got some double chocolate gooey butter cakes made, some pumpkin cake rolls filled with cream cheese filling, red velvet cake frosted with cream cheese frosting, red velvet cupcakes, pumpkin spice bread, pistachio bread, pumpkin muffins with cinnamon sugar tops, and the italian herb foccacia.  So WHEW!! I am one tired chic here.  NOW it is time to kick back and watch surviror and eat my wonderful supper my dear sweet hubby made.  We are having breakfast which is fine by me!! LOVE bacon, eggs, hash browns and my fresh cheddar bread!!
Have a wonderful evening!
HUGS
Darlene





~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~