Peaches-n-blueberries

Happy Friday!! Susan and I made some white bread kind of like french bread with a baguette look.  These are goin to go to  dinner that Lakeshore Harvest Country is hosting this weekend. I also made some squash n cheese filled homemade ravioli for them too.  I was honored to beable to contribute to their dinner.

I love love LOVE this bread it is a bit of work but so worth it.  We baked it on stones in the big convection oven and it is nice and crusty and super soft and flavorful in the middle!!

They are gonna serve it sliced and grilled toppped with some homemade local goat cheese and pesto.  Sounds super yummo!!  I love pesto and need to make some soon!!

I did up something new a pecan streusle filled peach bread and boy that was very good too.  Since we are in the heart of blueberries and peaches it was time to whip up some peachy blueberry goodies.  Here are my cobblers and I also made up some muffins with a buttercrumb topping, and peach blueberry pie.

 Peach struesel filled muffins. They baked a bit over the pan but tasted so good it dont matter.  I topped each one with a bit of struesle with toasted pecans.

Well I better get myself finished loading up for market tomorrow.

South Haven Farmers Market tomorrow 8-2 I will have lots of goodies.  Tater-n-cheese pierogi, squash ravioli, lots of cookies and breads oh and muffins.

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Some baking pics for ya

WEll guess what!! I FOUND my dig camera!! Cant believe it was under some papers on the butcher block table in kitchen!! AND I searched everywhere and I mean everywhere. WEll apparently NOT!! LOL so here are pics that i took that day at the kitchen.

~~LIVE LIFE These were just really cute little candy corn shaped sugar cookies. JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~These are pumpkin bread with raisins

and they were really flavorful!~! LOVE punkin recipes!! too yummy

I did add some orange zest in with the pumpkin and it sure was a nice addition to the bread.

So today I am heading over to the kitchen to make up some mixes and do some chocolate pretzels for my show this weekend at West Shore Mall in Holland MI OH if you come you will not leave hungry i plan on having lots of samples out!

Samples will include my pumpkin spice dip, taffy apple dip, pistachio bread, fudge and maybe a bar cookie sample too. Will see what all i can get accomplished today with what i have at kitchen. Oh and definetly will have my pumpkin cake rolls for sale and a chocolate cake roll too!! COME ON OVER!!

Happy Hump Day

I thought this looked pretty out along the pasture

These trees are looking mighty fine with their colors this fall

As you can see Mr. Beau (the goat) is stealin my Appy's grain. The chickies always run to snatch up what ap drops LOL they are smart!!

These are cheesecake topped chocolate chip brownies

Seasoned cheddar cracker wafers CRISPY and YUMMY!!

punkin rolls

a close close up of a slice of the cream cheese punkin rolls I made today. THEY ARE SUPER YUMMY TOO!!

Today is our 9th Anniversary!! WOW time sure flies dont it!!

So I baked some new things today including an awesome if i might add, cream cheese filled pumpkin roll!!

I made some of the herbed cheddar wafers as pictured above, they would be awesome on a salad as croutons or even in a bowl of soup! dried chives, season salt and garlic powder are just the right combo for them.

I did do up some cinnamon rolls with a cinnamon vanilla glaze, pistachio bread, and some mini pumpkin cheesecake pastries. They are cooling in fridge right now i will take a pic later cuz they are too cute!! Also I bought a mini bread pan last week at my favo store Hobby Lobby and they turn out way too cute. I am goin to package 3 of them or maybe even 6 in a pretty decorated box for the holiday shows for a nice little gift for someone to give. GEEEEE maybe you might get one huh!! LOL

Tomorrow is Allegan farmers market so hope it doesnt rain too much!!

Have a great evening!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Wet Wed

lemon muffins with fresh red raspberries and raspberry "farm girl bling" LOL

These loaves are so big we cut them in 1/3s for our use.

Here is a loaf of the rustic crusty white bread we did yesterday. OH my goodness this bread is way too good! In fact we are havin triple cheese and bacon grilled sandwiches tonight with it.

Some lemon buttermilk pecan bread loaves!! this is a great recipe that I make into cakes and with a few minor alterations bread too.

Peach Basil crumble pie with sliced toasted almonds!! A really nice taste experience!! we had to try one asap once it came out of oven!! LOL

jam topped cheesecake sugar cookies with white chocolate drizzeled ontop.

Here is my CHICKEN SCRATCH PULL APART PEPPER ONION BREAD. It smells so yummy!!! I took my plain ol white bread dough, pulled it in pieces then dipped each piece in melted butter, then rolled them in asst colored chopped sweet peppers (which we grew) and some chopped sweet red onion. Placed them in these great round pans, baked and VOILA!!

SuPeR DuPeR YuMmY!!!
WE GOT ALOT OF RAIN last night and this am!! There was water covering the road in so many spots too. IT came down by the bucketful!

Here are a couple of bundt cakes for market tomorrow.. both are lemon buttermilk but have either fresh raspberries or fresh blueberries, and both are topped with my "farmgirl bling" of cource!! LOL

Also got done: chicken scratch cowboy cookies, sprinkle topped butter cookies, cranberry sour cream bars, glazed pistachio bread, cheddar jalapeno cornbread, peach praline pies, (a couple pictured below) raspberry filled lemon muffins, chocolate chip cookies and some
little tartlet shells that we will fill on friday maybe with a chocolate mousse or cream cheese filling topped with fresh raspberries.
I think that about raps up things for market tomorrow. Oh by the way did i mention I found and bought a glass display cabinet for at the flower shop so we are on our way to opening the bake shoppe really soon!! I ordered a couple of bakery banners and a big open flag and a lighted bakery sign so cant wait!!

BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR OUR GRAND OPENING IN FENNVILLE MI!!

So have a blessed evening and will talk more soon!!

!!HUGS~~

Darlene

Peach praline pies, ~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Tues madness!!

WOW what a day!! I dragged my mom with me to go get some supplies with me yesterday am, then today again!! LOL I spend more time drivin back and forth to stores i swear!!
Well at the kitchen today I made another new recipe up for Cheddar Apple Bread and it was yummy!! just needs more cheddar I think. Did up some banana blueberry bread, blueberry orange muffins, a few mini bundt cakes that are another :my: recipe, upside down cherry cakes, some chocolate chip cookies, a couple little personal coffee cakes filled with cherry preserves and a streusel butter topping, some strawberry apricot crumb bars and last but certainly not least some cherry almond muffins. Since we are right smack dab in the midst of cherry season figured I would go with the "cherries" and make cherry stuff!! Maybe I will do some cherry salsa tomorrow. I have to get some breadsticks done up and more cookies tomorrow especially the lavander shortbread ones. I am thinkin about draggin my poor mom out again to a big market in the am to chick it all out!!
Well off to close up the farmstand and do evening chores and hopefully NOT get attacked by any angry chickens!! LOL
Have a peaceful evening yall!!
~~HUGS~~
Darlene
~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Produce Pickin!!

Here is the ad in the Country Register my friends and I are in!! SEE CHICKEN SCRATCH FARMS LOL

Cardamon bread rounds

I love this pic and think it is my favo!! Just picked sweet Rainier cherries and early blueberries!! My mom and I started pickin today!! We also picked some of our round italian zucchini, gold zucchini, plain ol zucchini and some tart cherries too. Mount morency cherries, but those are gonna get pitted and right into pies tomorrow!! for market.

It was a glorious farm day today!! in the mid 70's and just perfect pickin weather!! i worked at the flower shop helpin my mom make some funeral arrangements this am then came home and worked on the farm. I had to weed some of the beans, those dang ol weeds grow no matter what the weather is!! Hope yall had a sweet, safe and fun holiday weekend!! sad to see it over already!! summer just flies by as we stay so busy that I just want to take a day that hubby and I can do something special together and if we can with the boys that would be perfect!! of cource it gets so hot they are better off stayin at home in the AC!! Well Mr. Bubba is in the warm waterbed whatever the temp is!! crazy boy!!

A pic of a couple of our black raspberry bushes near the farmstand.


These bushes are just full of goodies to ripen!!

Well the "angry girls" were much happier today, they are all out and diggin and scratchin all over the farm. I kept them closed up friday and sat as there were a few hawks flyin around and yesterday they WERE MAD at me!! so i figured since we stayed at home ALL day they should be safe with us here and there. BUT boy when i went in the coop sunday am to do chores they were ANGRY!! they stretched their little necks up to see out the screen door and literally were "squackin me out" everyone was all in a tizzy!! I got brutally attacked when i reached over to pull their door open, one jumped on my back and scratched my neck, one reached from the crate she was sittin on and pecked at my cheek and mamma clara got my hand and arm when i reached in crate to feed her and her 2 little babes!! She went all "kung fo chicken" on my arm and even broke the skin thru my pink work gloves!! so there are bruises all over me!! I got the snot kicked right on out of me this weekend!! CRAZY!!

A few of the handmade soaps.

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Happy Happy fouth~

Some granola mix I made up called CHICKEN SCRATCH CRUNCH~chocolate granola mix!!

The cupcakes in backround were so darn cute! pineapple orange with buttercream frosting chocolate drops in center and orange zest on top.

Containers of my not too hot fresh tomato salsa, and my peach mango salsa! sold out!!

These are my lavander lemon cookies that went over really good at market!! Just a hint of lemon not to over power the sweet lavander taste.

Sold out!!Cardamom bread braids

Little cherry pies SOLD OUT you really cant see the cut out stars I put on top but they were so cute!

Peach dumplings!! these were sold out quickly!

CAN U BELIEVE IT IS ALMOST THE FOURTH OF JULY????????? I sure can't!! But I hope yall have a Happy and Safe Holiday Weekend!!

Well market was........ well THE BEST yesterday~~we were busy all day and sold out of almost everything we took!! This week I had my blueberry banana bread, straw banana bread, zucchini pineaple bread, cheddar bread rounds, cardamom bread braids and rounds, cinnamon swirl bread, banana butter crumb topped bread, and muffins, peach dumplings, cheery cherry pies (which i topped with stars cut from pie dough), lavander lemon shortbread cookies (yummo!~)chunky peanut peanut butter cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, orange pineapple cupcakes, orange marmalade pecan bread loaves, just to mention some of it! LOL Well today I have an order to deliver first thing this am to a nearby store so hope they can sell it all for this busy weekend!! I really decided this week NO SLEEP needed for me!! LOL i will probably sleep all day sunday to make up for all the baking hours this week!! But it sure is great!! I cant explain the feeling when someone who has bought from me comes back and says :that was the best pie or bread:

I just wish we could have an actual bakery but do however enjoy attending the local markets to get our name out there. It is great exposure for sure. Well better get my butt off here and get the morning things done so I can get to the kitchen and package and label everything that I made last nigth after market to take this am!! then it is back to kitchen to bake for tomorrows market!! WHEW!!!!!!!!!

Hope yall have a super duper safe and enjoyable weekend!

~~HUGS~~

Darlene

and happy baking yall!!

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~