Blueberry fest is over!

Oh my goodness we had a wonderful market day sat!!  IT was blueberry festival in South Haven, MI and what a festival!! I am so glad so many people came out and enjoyed everything blueberry!!  The parade was awesome, the music the food all of it was great!!! 

Mary and I made blueberry filled pierogi with a cheese mixture and those went over like crazy!!  WE pretty much sold out of everything we took with.   I love giving sample of my blueberry jalapeno jelly out and watch the reactions of people, it is such a super taste.  You first get the sweet blueberry then it takes a minute but ............. wait a bit more............. the jalapeno peppery taste kicks in!!  it is not hot at all just a bit of a bite so you know it is there.   My mom's peach basil preserves went over great too!! we served crackers with a bit of cream cheese and the preserves ontop.  IT is such a unique taste experience I am gonna make my dear sweet lovin hubby a nice suppper tonight and top the meat with some of her preserves.  I am a huge basil fan and love cookin with it.  This week I am making some of my peach basil crumble pie.  I made it last summer and it was amazin!!  I love that so many of my customers like tryin new things and new flavor combos I come up with.

I still cannot believe I didnt take my camera to the kitchen on friday!!  Susan made the most delicious chocolate cakes, these were made in a dome shaped silicon pan each one just the perfect size for one or maybe two people *I have to say I dont share my chocolate very good with others*LOL they had a vey rich smooth chocolate frosting on them and I topped them with just a dab of white chocolate and then the "farmgirl bling" took me over so it was chocolate jimmies!! They were just too cute and oh so irresitible!  They will be made again soon so I will be sure to show yall pics of them.   Everything was a big hit that we made.  All the muffins, breads, cakes, cookies, pies and my grandma Rose's dill pickles I made sold out!!  Miss ya Grandma!!  Mary came to the kitchen and we played with some recipes and trialed a couple of new things too.   She made awesome garlic herb braided breads, some peach and blueberry filled mini rugelach's, and  some butter crescent rolls that were melt in your mouth perfection. 

This week will be all bout peaches!! I picked some of our red haven peaches and the Lorings are about ripe now but I cannot wait for the RED SKIN peaches!! Those are my absolute favo!! and they are just perfect peach orange color!! they will look beautiful in the jars I plan on canning some slices in.

Well today will be workin in the house this am I was pretty neglectful last week spending majority of my time at the kitchen so things need to be done here then I think I will go to the kitchen and play around!!  YEAH!!   Susan and I want to make some ciabatta bread and maybe some sourdough this week.

My mom and I are gonnna do some corn for the freezer, which by the way if you dont know how it is very easy peasy to enjoy corn all winter.   We use a big ol bowl then an electric knife (thanks to Grandama Jan's idea there) to take all the kernals off the cob.   I get a big stock pot of water boilin add some sugar  dump in all the corn, we usually do about 5 dozen ears at a time, let it just boil maybe 2-3 min then turn off heat, let it cool and scoop it into freezer ziploc bags.  I lay them flat out on a sheet pan and freeze them.  That's it!! and the sugar helps the corn stay super sweet and yummo!!  try it!!

So I better get my coffee down and git thin's done around here!!

ENJOY your monday yall!!  

  Thanks to my mom and dear friend Mary for making sat a very successful day with alot of laughs and hugs!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Allegan Market tomorrow

Well we got alot of goodies made for market tomorrow!! 
Some peach streusel filled coffee cakes, pistachio bread, banana bread, espresso cream filled espresso cookies, peanut butter filled peanut butter whoopie pies, cranberrry lemon pecan sandwich cookies, chocolate chip cookies, tater n cheeses filled pierogi, asparagus and cheese filled ravioli, loaded carrot cakes with cream cheese frosting to name some of them.
I also made a big big batch of my babka and ended up rolling it up in a big roll and baked it like a huge cinnamon roll.  It is filled with a cinnamon cardamom struesel and smelled just heavenly in the oven.  I had an order for cardamom bread so made some of them and they look great!~  
Hot pepper jelly and mild hot pepper jelly done, pickeled asparagus and some sweet onion relish.    I have to still make my strawberry rhubarb jelly and also strawberry apricot jelly so a bit more to do before the weekend.  I am off to get things loaded in my trailer for market.

Have a blessed evening!!
HUGS
Darlene ~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Couch taters

Here is Mr. Boopie Woopie Boo snoozin on the couch.

bubba laying on a warm heating pad covered up

Buster with one of his blankies on the couch

Look at that little face!!! TOO CUTE!~~
Oh my boys were just chillin' yesterday on the couch so cute. I covered each one up and they laid like that for hours. One day I will have time to lay down and take a nap with my boys again!!

Well it did snow a bit today but not enough to have to plow again thank goodness. Tomorrow is baking day I have a couple of orders to get shipped out and wanna make more fresh pasta for supper tomorrow. We made the spinach and it was incredible! and oh so easy. I am thinkin maybe of tryin a few other ones too. I so wanna do a tomato basil flavored fettucini noodle. Making me hungry for pasta now!!LOL We are havin homemade cheddar broccoli soup with ham tonight and some homemade bread. Good ol comfort foods!

I did manage to get one of my giveaway OWOH prizes done so as soon as they are both ready I will start posting pics of them. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR IT TO START!!

Have a blessed night we are gonna eat supper and probably take the snowmobiles out after dinner.

~~HUGS~

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

WELL MY LITTLE MR. BOOPIE WOOPIE BOO HAS A DATE TODAY!!!

yepper that is right Barney is meeting up with a little gal Callie today~ He met her a few months ago in hopes that they would hit it off and we can let him daddy some pups well the time is NOW! So my little boy will have to get spiffed up today for his big date!! LOL I posted a couple of my favo pics of him. The one is when we had just brought him home oh i LOVE that pic!!~ the other one I could just hear him saying "what you talkin bout mommy?"

AND THIS PIC IS A FAVO OF MINE OF BUSTER a couple of years ago!! HE looks so mad!! His little eyebrows are even wrinkled up!! He really didnt like the hair I put on his hat at all!! LOL

>>>>>>>>> these cookies are nekked!~! above you can see how I "did the farmgirl bling" to them!! They are absolutley a wonderful cookie too! I found a recipe for them and decided it would be fun to use some of my powdered chai tea mix for flavor. WOW! they are good and the buttercream filling actually has a bit of it in also! very mild but yet full flavored.

I love these little mini struesel filled pumpkin cakes!! they are so moist and flavorful!!

so I did go to market yesterday am but after 2 1/2 hours of nothing but picking things up from the strong winds we had I decided to pack things up and wait for the pick up customers to come and then leave. It was horrible both of my big wood weighted down display racks blew over and then after picking all that up and putting them back in trailer the gusts were so strong it was just like throwing things around. Enough is enough!! A couple of my gift mugs got broken and then a container of cookies blew off table and of cource didnt survive the crash. Darn the boys were able to eat some pieces of those though. So last market day was sad!!

BUT>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am baking today to fill the shop tomorrow with goodies!! Dont forget all you close by folks FLORAL TOUCH FLORIST just west of Fennville will have all my baked goods for you!! I am planning on having more of the mini pumpkin cakes above and also a couple of large full ones, some cookies, muffins, a couple of cakes, candies, and lots of chocolate treats!! Plus this week i will put out samples so come on in and enjoy!!! We are off M-89 the main road to fennville, just 2 miles east of Blue Star Highway. 269-543-4815

Special Orders welcome!!

If you dont already know I do use as much locally made/grown produce in my baked goods, in fact I froze a ton of zucchini, blueberries, strawberries, cherries, peaches and everything else I could to use this winter. My silly dilly beans and all my jalapeno jellies are there and I made some fresh Spiced apple butter last week.

Stop on by!!

I better get my little boy all ready for his date now and hopefully he is returning home a changed guy!! LOL

Have a great day yall!!

*HUGS*

Darlene

~~LIFE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~