Baking with Amy...

Sunday afternoon....the lovely time.  Napping.  Sweat pants.  Quiet house...yea right that never happens.  Still, love Sunday afternoons.  This Sunday, I was ready to tackle bread.  I have made homemade bread before.  For a while I had become quite regular with it.  However, my attempt at whole wheat bread a couple of weeks ago was not pretty.  My little dog Lou Lou wouldn't even eat it y'all.  OK, so now to today's baking experience.  First:  Armed myself with a handy little blog recipe.  Thanks Gina over at http://homejoys.blogspot.com/2011/01/country-white-bread.html...and away we go.  I took her suggestion and split the whole wheat flower and white flower.  Second:  I bought old fashioned whole wheat flower of the stone ground variety.  Third:  I followed the directions explicitly.  The result?

Before...

After

AWWW  Big loaf fail...tis ok, still tasted good!

....yummy.

~amy

These are the moments...

We are home today...it is a "snow day" for the boys and a service call from the HVAC people for me....that is a WHOLE other story.  So I am trying to work a little and this is what I hear from the kitchen:
Perry:  "Mom look under there" 
Me:  "under where?" 
Perry:  "ha ha you said underwear"
 I tried not to laugh.  Thought that might encourage him


Boy humor with the Joneses...

~amy

It's a New Year!!!

2011.  Doesn't seem right does it?  What do we have scheduled for the year?  HMMMM. 


OK.


1.  Get healthy...Jesse and I both.
2.  At the end of April we will have a teenager in the house (oh the horror)!
3.  My baby will start Middle School...
4.  Chickens will be gone.


I can live with that...pretty respectable list.  Two items I have no choice in the matter and the other two...I need help...anyone want any chickens???


Ahhh, a New Year with the Joneses...




~amy