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Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts

October 1, 2013

Bobbing for apples

Have you ever tried?  It is not easy. Lots of laughter ensued.  You really have to submerge your head in the water!  So, we decided it's legal to grasp the stem of the apple in your teeth. 
 What do you think of the government "shutdown," or partial shutdown?  We had a great discussion in our house about it today, the girls asking about the budget and how exactly money is given to the government and if it's backed with gold/silver and where it is printed and distributed.  We all learned something from this...
A little music...3/4 guitar and mandolin.  They're practicing Hotel California.

September 23, 2013

Apple Pancakes

Happy 1st day of fall!  We picked a bushel of apples two weeks ago and still have about a peck left.  I shredded 2 apples by hand (if you have a food processor that will grate, use it, ours unfortunately broke a couple weeks ago, but it lasted us a good 12 years) to make  
Vegan Apple Pancakes:
 (adapted from Vegan Planet, their recipe is called Flax-Berry Pancakes)

1 1/2 c flour
2 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp ground flaxseeds
2 apples, shredded
1 c water
dash of cinnamon

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Set aside.
Combine flax and water and mix until thick. 
Mix wet ingredients into dry until just combined, then add shredded apple. We ate them with real maple syrup!  This serves 4.
 Olivia and Velvet (who we call "kitty" most of the time) on the trampoline!
 A little turtle...listen to all the voices in the background.  ♥

September 14, 2012

Fragments...

This week I accidentally broke 2 clay bowls that my husband made before we were married...we could glue one back together, the other is not great, but okay.
Instead of having my soup in them, we will use them for something else, like holding tomatoes from our backyard?
A little piece of fabric I stitched on...  You know the rest of this phrase.  We hope to go pick apples soon!  Fresh crunchy, sweet juicy apples, everything is always best when it's in season.  I bought delicious ones at Trader Joe's yesterday (most of them were from Chile, these were from the USA, a farm in NY).