Snowy Saturday!

Hey yall!!  Here are a few things I made for markets last week.  Apple crisp with some of our apples we have had in my parents basement this winter. 

Nice and thick cinnamony crisp topping.  When they came out of the oven I drizzeled some cinnamon maple syrup ontop of each one. 

Pumpkin spice muffins almost ready to come out of oven. 

Mushrooms, eggplant, onions, peppers roasting for the calzones

Filling for my pot pies, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, green beans, peas, corn, and lots of herbs. 

Calzone ready to be folded

ready for baking

YUMMY they smell so good!!  My roasted veggie calzones

And this is what it was like outside thurs am!!  We went to bed on wed with green grass and a bit of rain, and woke up to a winter wonderland!! huge snowflakes comin down made it so absolutely gorgeous outside!!

looking down the drive towards the pasture

down the driveway by the farmstand those bushes along the right side of the drive were just hanging down so heavy with wet snow caked on them

Thought this was pretty!!  snow covered branches.  So it was all about winter the last couple of days round here!  That is ok just as long as it is over by march I am fine with snow now!! LOL

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Be back soon!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Rainy rainy and rainy day

Cinnamon Raisin Babka

Citrus cheese filled pull apart cake rolls

  Pesto filled bread

Berry Berry banana bread

Rising choc croissants

Berry Berry banana bread

blueberry muffins

Oh the glorious choc croissants! fresh and hot out of oven.

off to eat one brb!! LOL

Hey everyone!   What a week!!  Buster's surgery went very well on monday!  He is doing great which means his mommy is doing great too!!  Thanks for all the well wishes for my boy.
I have been super busy this week trying to get ready for the big weekend market.  Tues night my friend and I went to a new market in Kalamazoo, Douglass Community Center hosted an evening market for the first time and it was so nice to be a part of it.  Plus the atmoshpere was so laid back and fun and relaxing!  Today was to be Allegan market but with this rain and wind I decided to not go SORRY!! It just isnt good for my things to get wet or damp and sugar melts in water so I would melt too!! ROFL!! right!  So anyways that will leave me more options to take on sat.
I did again forget to take my cam to the kitchen so now I must make a note to self and put my cam in my purse the night before goin.  
A few new recipes were tried this week and they all turned out great!!   Caramel apple cake, chocolate cherry pie, banana pineapple bread and a few others.   I will say the caramel apple cake is delish but I think next time I make it I will add more apples to it.  The recipe called for thinly sliced apples on the top of cake and even though it is very pretty hubby suggested to put diced apples in the cake batter too.  I made a homemade caramel sauce to drizzle ontop of cake and oh yummy!!  
I also did up a sour cream coffee cake that has some cinnamon streusle swirled thru it and decided it needed something more so did up a butter crumb topping for them and that really did it!!  I also added a bit of a cinnamon glaze to a few of them.  Susan made up chocolate croissants and some little croissant cakes with choc chips on top and a glaze over that.  There is not much bettter to me than starting the day off at thek kitchen with a hot choc croissant fresh out of the oven, crispy dough, melted choc and lots of buttery goodness!! YUMMY!!
So today is gonna be an extra baking day for me, babka dough can be made, bread dough, some hamburger buns, (which I need to remember to cut down from 4 oz to 3 oz)  and lots of cookies!! 
Hope yall have a wonderful day and I will be back to share more soon!!    SATURDAY SOUTH HAVEN FARMERS MARKET!!  SOUTH HAVEN MI 8-2
HUGS!
Darlene
~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Fall baking

I brought out the cookie press the other day and decided to make some fun fall cookies

These almond butter ribbons were good but especially good dipped in chocolate and sprinlked with a bit of fall jimmies.

Some streusel topped apple muffins.   I always cut up asst apples when baking with them  sautee just a few minutes in butter and cinnamon then  add  to the ingredients.   

Cranberry orange muffins super yummo!  And I added a lemon glaze for my "farmgirl bling"~~

Here are the pumpkin cranberry muffins with their touch of "farmgirl bling"!!

Here are the butter ribbon cookies dressed for fall!

I added some orange food paste coloring to the shortbread dough for the pumpkin spice cookies. 

Arent they just the cutest??

Fred, a tom cat someone dumped off here in feb.  He is just a doll and we are happy to have him be part of our family!  He just doesnt like his pic taken he kept looking away from me or down.  silly cat!!~

PRINCE, he is our only male peacock and just gorgeous I love his coloring and he really has gotten to be quite friendly.  He will take food from your hand and come to ya when you call him.

Ms Rosie May (sorry I just cant get her pic turned) She is a sweetie pie!

Beau, he also is a doll.

Boy I dont like the new format on blogger for uploading pics!! URGG~~~~ this stinks!!  I had all my pics placed in order and they have now moved around and it flipped a couple and I cannot get them turned around!!!  I will have to play around with them later.   I am off to the kitchen we are making some baguette bread and a few cakes and maybe some cookie dough!! 

I will also take some pics of my farmstand, it was decorated for the fall tour this weekend.

 Blue Coast Artist fall tour is so much fun and we enjoy meeting new friends!!

Have a blessed fall monday yall!!

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

What to do with an old chair

Well an old wooden chair is most valuable!!  Hubby and I went to an auction last weekend and my only purchases were some old wooden chairs.    They were perfect candidates for a new makeover.   I love the spindles on old chairs and use them in alot of my primitive pieces but I just couldnt take these guys apart, they actually were all in very good condition so for $3.00 for all 4 chairs I got a real bargain!!   and last night at an auction I purchase an ol  little rusty tricycle.  I have plans for this little cutie but not sure if I will be able to get it done today.  We have 20 pounds of taters to plant and more sweet corn and a patch for some of the first sunflowers to get in. 

This was the first chair, I actually left it alone, didnt repaint any of it and it already was chipped and peeling so that was perfect.  The second one looked like someone started stripping it down as it showed several layers from white to blue to grey, so all I did was a light sanding and then painted a very thin coat of flat black ontop so it would show some of the colors below. 

Each one has grapevine and some ivy wrapped around it.  The ivy is planted in the pot and will perk back up it usually takes just a few days for it to regain its momentum and start growing.  I have another white one done up but took it up to mom and dads for by their porch.  The colues so far has incredible colr!! and we did grow quite a few varieties from plugs I bought this early early spring. 

I did up some of my brothers herbs and veggie plants out for sale by the farmstand.  We started some oregano, sweet basil, lemn basil, lemon thyme, thyme, lavender, dill, marjoram, sage, rosemary, and some organic cat grass for him to take to market.  Also a couple of kinds of heirloom tmoato plants and sugar ann sweet snap peas.  Everything is growing very good right now!! YEAH!!

My little tric! 

And of cource I love to have little vessels full of fresh cut flowers in the farmstand so right now it is lily of the valley.  We have a bunch of this growing around, the stems and flowers seem to be extra full this year and the flowers so fragrant!! oh what a sweet smell!

Well that is about it for things to share with yall this beautiful sunny sunday morning!!   Oh I just love these chairs! LOL

Tomorrow will be all about back to work at the kitchen.  I have a long list of things this week to get done as I have 2 markets and an order for my pickeled asparagus and strawberry apricot jam so not too much play time for me.  Today will be fun though workin outside with hubby and plantin!  Oh and putin up the door to close the farmstand up.  We are OPEN just am needin to put a door on the front.  Dont know if I mentioned it but the "girls" are grounded right now for bein quite naughty last week!!  There is a very lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg list of baked goods that they found and decided to snack on in the farmstand!!   Like numerous pkgs of cookies, 3 pies, several loaves of breads, a few muffins,  a bundt cake, and lots of granolas!!  Yepper they got up on the shelves and tore the place up and not just one day but serveral days I came home to find the pkgs all over the floor and ripped and shredded up.   SO grounded!! they have been in their pen for 4 days now and are really really angry! you can see it in their little faces too!! ANGRY CHICKS!!  So this afternoon we hope to have the wall done and they will be out free again!!!  My mom gave me an old screen door that they bought for the farmhouse several years ago and decided to get a different one, this one has been in the rafters in the garage still in the packaging and it is white and the same height as we need out there so perfect!!  I will post pics when we are done.

I hope yall have a beautiful day and have this gorgeous sunshine where yall are at too!!  ENJOY!! be back tomorrow!! 

NEW recipe this week to for: olive asiago cheese bread!! oh sounds good cant wait to try it out!! 

HUGS

Darlene

OH MY PS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I forgot to mention we came home the other night to these guys too!!

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~