Pumpkin Bread Pudding and more day

Ok so today was a vey productive day at the kitchen!!!  I made a recipe up for pumpin bread pudding with a cinnamon sauce and oh my goodness gracious!!! WHAT a yummy treat!! Love the texture, the richness and the yummy flavor!!  This will surely be made on wed for the thurs markets!!

A pumpkin head doll I made.  I love painting their faces!!

I cut up some egg bread we had in the freezer, mixed with eggs, cream and some pumpkin puree along with pumpkin pie spices, baked until golden.

A simple white cinnamon sauce was drizzeled ontop of each.

 the end was cinnamon sugar sprinlked ontop.

Gingersnap shortbread triangles.  These are super yummy shortbread cokies!!

Each one got a little maple leaf imprint

and sugar sprinkled ontop. 

My little greeters at the farmstand!

When you pull in the driveway the "girls" come to meet ya!!  (I think they all learned this from someone that works at walmart!!)

Some fall pics around the farmstand!



one of my pumpkin head dolls I made



~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Farmgirl's BLING

Here's my little HAM! MS ROSIE MAY~!~

an order for tomorrow am of a dozen muffins

Some of my chicken scratch sweet pickle slices oh they are yummy on a sandwich by the way!!

my blueberry blossoms (which are very very popular) and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh so yummy!!

MY RECIPE!~ tootin my own horn by the way!! LOL PEACH PRALINE MUFFINS.. my absolute favo muffin now!!

ok so I have decided that I have some BLING!! well my baked goods have BLING!!

You see last night I put a glaze on almost everything we made for market.. from muffins to breads to cakes they all had a bit of a flavored glaze ontop thus..........farmgirl "BLING"

kind of catchy huh??

so market was good today the weather held out and actually warmed up by noon but until then it was chilly!! sweatshirt layer weather!! can u believe that for the end of JULY??? only 63 degrees when i went to leave this am!! BRRRRRRRRRRR.. but better than in the 90s i must admit!!

You know I have 3 Isa Brown "girls" that tend to lollygag at night so bad they are drivin me nuts!! the 3 of them every night act like little kids, one will run up the ramp to go in the coop then dart down and go get a drink or see a spot that there just might be a worm or bug and start scratchin then another one has to come back out and see what the first one was doin, then the 3rd one will take off in a different direction to distract me or something!! I SWEAR ... such shannagaans they play!! and everynight too.... plus hubby found a nest of 18 eggs laying near one of his sheds, well so today they were closed in their big pen and boy i bet they are plottin and schemeing against me so I will be "ON GUARD" while doin chores tonight!! LOL they are just too stinkin funny...

As you can see by the above pic my camera hog is "Miss Rosie May" one of our goats and she is just too darn cute too. and believe me she knows what to do with her horns too!! she sometimes chases me in the pasture and I have been known (by hubby only) to have a bruised tush!!

Anyway I better get my labels printed for my order goin out in the am and then off to do chores and shower and bed for me and the boys!! Have a wonderful night!

PS btw I will be outside doin a rain dance if you wondered... as we havent gotten any and sure need some!!

see ya.....

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

TGIF~~

Here are a few pics from yesterday market day. I decided to take a portion of my craft display and add it on the end of the booth. I think it looked great and we sure made good use of the space.

My new display rac (not new but repurposed rack)

Customers made some nice comments about the booth and also liked the baskets on the shelves of the display rack on the end. IT sure did hold alot so will def use this one for markets!! maybe add another on the other end too.

Well at long last we got some nice rain yesterday and some today!! WOO HOO!! YIPPEE!! we surely needed it. The gardens are growing superbly and this rain made everything grow so much overnight!!

YEAH!! Well i did it AGAIN!! Came up with another great recipe!! this one is for cherry jalapeno preserves and it was a super big hit at market yesterday so made another 2 batches this am at the kitchen!! then it was on to baking: tomorrow I am taking with me the following:

Cinnamon raisin bread, cinnamon swirl bread, banana blueberry bread, cheddar onion bread rounds, cheddar pepper onion bread, glazed cinnamon buns, my recipe of a hopefully great desert!!BERRY CHERRY CRISP!~!~ I used some of our sweet cherries mixed with some of our black raspberries and blackberries!! topped off with a crumb oat crisp!! It smells yummy!!

Also made a few blueberry cream cheese pies, mini cherry pies, blueberry and peach blossoms, (my mini version of a pie topped with cource sugar and butter) zucchini pineapple bread, pistachio bread, luscious lemon bread with pecans, some more dip mixes and crisp mixes, chunky granola cereal pkgs, mini peach blueberry cobblers, mini peach cobblers, butter crumb topped blueberry muffins, and chewy chocolate chocolate chip cookies. WHEWWWWW I think that is it~~that is enough plus I had a few muffins from thurs in the freezer so I am taking them with too. I also have 4 kinds of cookies and some double dipped pretzels to take too. The booth should be full which is how i like it!! LOL

I hope yall have a blessed evening I am off to relax in the recliner with my boys!! then off to do chores and close the farmstand and SLEEP! which I am kind of ready for NOW!LOL

Talk to ya soon!!

~~HUGS~~

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Produce, baked goods and market pics

Here are some of the homemade soaps we have.

MY STRAWBERRY BANANA BREAD was a BIG hit at both markets this week!~

Some produce ready for sale.

A dear friend made me this beautiful wreath of sweet peas so I hung it on one of the old recycled screens I have hanging on the outside of the farmstand. I love the sign I hung on top of it too!!!

A side pic of our little farmstand.

Some pretty onions!!

Radishes, and they are yummy!!

Peach pies I made last week for market

Banana sunflower muffins I made

A few goodies cooling at the bakery

Some breads drizzled with a vanilla glaze.

Here are some pics from the Allegan Michigan farmerst market on thurs

We had a horrible patch of tstorms come thru last week and the kitchen lost power but for once we didnt at home! knock on wood too!! We usually always have to pull out the generator in the early summer from some bad storms but it really hit the cliff and almost bounced over us and went inland 3 miles and boy was there damage!! we seen big ol trees uprooted and tons of big limbs and branches down all over, and the flooding was horrible in Holland which is aoubt 20 min north of us. Roads actually were either closed or GONE from all the torrntial rains we got!! Bust we survived a ok!!

WHEW!! what a busy weekend, we had more planting to do and we also had a busy day at market on sat and fathers day sunday!! BTW HAPPY LATE FATHERS DAY TO ALL THE FATHERS OUT THERE!! hope you had a restful fun day!!!

Well I have a couple of new recipes I have thought of this weekend to make this week for market. The little buttermilk shortcakes were a big hit and they sold well at the farmstand here at home this weekend too. I think they will be great with mixed berries when the raspberries and blueberries are ready. Gosh that sounds good for tonight may have to pull some out of the freezer and make it for a midnight (right 9pm is more like it) snack!!LOL

IT IS OFFICIALLY SUMMER we closed all the windows t0night and put on the ac!! YEPPER the air is running!! Buster and his daddy dont good in the humid heat of summer so it was time to break down and turn it on. I love the windows open but actually it is almost 85 degrees right now so it is a bit hot.

I hope yall have a super duper monday night and will chat more this week got more pics to take ya know!!!




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HAPPY WEEKEND

My neighbor gave me this old cabinet a couple of weeks ago, i finally got some pics of it as is. I am thinkin of using it either at the shop or in my farmstand not quite sure. The glass will come out and we are putting mesh screening in place and I am thinkin of paintin it black then sand some off or maybe another coat of a light sagey green then antiqued and distressed. I love the cabinet though so it will be fun to redo!!!

Well it is saturday!! WOW this week has flewn right on by me!! I think i have slept more and laid around more this week than in my entire life! LOL Each day gets better so YEAH!! We are not plannin on doin much today but will go out to my inlaws and have lunch and CAKE! yeah CAKE!! It is only 22 degrees outside again and hopefully will keep stayin warmer out yesterday it only got in the 40s so I am keepin my fingers crossed that spring is fast approaching. My sugar snap peas are starting to sprout in the greenhouse and also some of the flowers I put in.

I added a couple of pics here of the inside of a wall in my farmstand. We are gettin good egg production and thought it was time to put some new prims and things in it too. Hopefully next week will have more things in there and ready for the upcoming season!!

Hope yall have a terrific weekend and will talk more next week!!

~~HUGS~~

Darlene