Monday, April 22, 2013

Our Everyday: Volume 11...

Our everyday has been a little crazy lately.  Whose hasn't?  In our cooking/baking adventures, I haven't gotten a ton of pictures.  In fact, sometimes I've just gotten a pic of the ingredients, and that's fun ;)  

Regardless, here's what we've been spending part of our days doing...



Those were shared with the cousins. 

Last Sunday, we had Bacon Chocolate Chip Pancakes, thanks to RoRo and Sean.  Honestly, I wasn't too sure I wanted to try them at first.  But, the bacon was so subtle, and added just the right touch of saltiness...delicious.  

Carter loved making them...






Then we wanted to make one of RoRo's favorite treats for her birthday:  Caramels. (this recipe is from the second and third batch I tried). 


Peter has joined our cooking club...

Carter helping to line the pans (we don't wear pants around here)...


Getting all of the ingredients ready...


Making sure it was getting to the right temp...

and discovering it wasn't!

I didn't realize that altitude affects the temperature you should reach for candy making, and I am sure I did something else wrong too.  The first batch turned out like a Werther's hard candy.  The next like a Sugar Daddy.  The third like a REALLY chewy caramel.  But, all tasted great.  I guess we'll have to try again another day.  We sent the third batch to RoRo.  Any takers on the kinds that might pull a filling out???  We have a ton!

Then it was on to our weekly batch of granola, that I found via Maria...




and a bit of a spill...




before we added the Raisins...
We sent a little batch to our cousins in Colorado.

Then we made some mac n' cheese for a funeral meal...


Peter really wanted to eat the uncooked noodles...








Finally, we had some blue cornbread with some stew on a cold day this week, and the boys were right by my said to whip it up...



I have great little helpers!

We also sold a few cows, went to visit Aunt Schammie (Sammie), helped Aunt Whitney prepare for a new baby and worked on Carter's sleeping issues (holy moly).  Tomorrow we're off to well-checks and then onto a funeral.  Life has been busy and so full.



4 comments :

  1. That photo of Carter with the wooden spoon is priceless!

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  2. I love all of these pictures! And I love that Peter is getting in on the cooking....even though he wants to eat the uncooked noodles! :)

    ~Tiffany

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  3. The pic of Carter with the wooden spoon ---> pure awesomeness.

    It is so neat that you involve the boys in the cooking. They're going to have cooking club memories forever and that's just priceless.

    -Amy

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  4. THIS IS AWESOME. I can't wait to eat those caramels! And those boys could not get any cuter!! I can't get over this. My little buddies. :)

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