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Vanilla Ice CreamI recently made vanilla ice cream and it was delicious!! I wanted to share my recipe with you. You can now find all my ice cream recipes (eggless recipes and non dairy too) and ice cream making directions here: http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/makinghomemadeicecream.htm If I have more recipes to post I will be adding them to that page. Vanilla Ice Cream
6 eggs In a big mixer (like a Kitchen Aid or Bosch) mix together (with the wire whip) the eggs and cane juice crystals until light and lemony colored. Add vanilla and mix again. Add cream and arrowroot powder (if using). When all of this has mixed together completely pour it into your 1 gallon ice cream maker container. Add whole milk until you reach the "fill line" on your ice cream maker container. Follow the instructions that came with your ice cream maker or click on the above link for general instructions. Bulk Taco Seasoning MixWe are having taco salad for dinner tonight. I always cook up my hamburger and add taco seasonings to it before adding it to my salad. I realized this morning I was out of taco seasoning and it was time to make more. This is another product that I make myself now. We are not real big fans of the taste of the taco seasonings I use to buy from my health food co-op and I wonder about MSG in it as well (the grocery store stuff definitely is full of yucky things typically). I recently was reading an article (wish I could remember where now.. maybe Dr. Taco mix is so easy to make. It takes less than 15 minutes to make up a batch, the recipe doubles easily. I usually make a double batch but today I did not have enough dried onion, so I settled for a single batch. Bulk Taco Seasoning Mix
¾ c dried onions Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Store in plastic or glass container with a lid. It takes approx. 3T of this mix to equal one packet that you would buy in the store. This recipe makes about 2 cups. I store it in a canning jar in my cupboard.
Today I Choose ThankfulnessI'm thankful for....a dear husband with unlimited patience who watches tenderly with bated breathe to see if I will embrace becoming conformed to His image. loving friends who believe the best of me even when I simply don't deserve it. sweet, sweet children who rush to serve our family especially when my husband and I are too tired to move. a beautiful daughter-in-love who desires to be my friend. a "bit of earth" on which to "dig and delve". a Holy God and Savior who simply won't let me stay in my present sinful state, but loves me enough to move me from glory to glory. Thank you everyone. You know who you are.... This Weeks Menu Monday:
Leftovers
Salad
Tuesday:
Taco salad
Chips and homemade salsa
Homemade vanilla ice cream (I will post the recipe soon.. :)
Wednesday:
Our 25th wedding anniversary!!
 (we are going out.. kids are handling the kitchen on their own)
Thursday (our holiday bbq):
Burgers on the grill
On homemade buns
Watermelon
Homemade ice cream (vanilla if there is any left.. if not we will make something else!)
Friday:
Baked chicken legs
Baked potatoes
Salad
Saturday:
Tobin works so no holiday bbq for us.. already had it!
 Chips and homemade salsa
Salad
Sunday:
Macaroni and Cheese w/ham
Salad
Fresh fruit
Sewing DiapersThis is one of the diapers I've been sewing. It's for dd1, its from the FattyCake pattern. I love it! The outside is an upcycled shirt, the hidden and inner layers are sherpa. Then there is a trifold sherpa lay in soaker.
   Busy gardening, sewing and hot weatherI haven't had time to post here for a little while. I've been very busy trying to catch up with the gardens. We went from very cool and wet weather (yes even needing to use the wood stove!) to extreme hot and dry weather. Dh set up the AC a few days ago and that helped a LOT. I have a hard time breathing when the weather gets into the 30's C and humid. During the day we've been just trying to keep cool. Come evening I've been working non stop in the gardens. I'm not sure what's worse, gardening during the hot day or the bugs in the evening! LOL
The weeds had really gotten away from us during the rainy spell. Now I have almost all the beds cleared out. I just need to finish around the cabbages and some tomatoes. I will need to finish it up tomorrow as it looks like we are in for another week of rain. We had a cold front come through yesterday. It didn't make it any cooler then, although today is lovely! But we did get some nasty storms up this way. The worst of it just skirted around us, we received mostly rain and some thunder. But others had large hail and there were a few tornadoes.
This morning I went to the annual library book sale in a nearby town. It's pretty big and goes by donation. I look forward to it every year! There didn't seem to be as many books as last year and it was VERY crowded, but I still found some great deals. I'll share more about my finds tomorrow, but I picked up 30 videos on different topics from animals, science and drama. Lots of books on history and countries around the world. Perfect for our unit studies this year!
I've been busy sewing an knitting to. My dd3 is working hard at potty training (yahoo!) so I'm sewing trainers for her. DD1 started reacting a while back to the liners in her pocket diapers. They have a suede cloth liner that she doesn't do well with. So I'm switching her over to fitted and wool/fleece covers. Then little ds is an odd size lol so doesn't fit into many that I already have. He has a wide waist and long rise. Soooo yup I'm sewing up a new stash for him to!
I also have a big stack of skirts I've cut out and need to sew.
Flower PhotosI was talking some garden photos the other day. I really liked how these came out!     CategoriesPlease forgive the fact that the 'categories' section of the sidebar isn't working. I changed templates and they were all disconnected. The edit function isn't working right and I can't get in to any of my posts, even *IF* I wanted to go back through and re-categorize everything, which I don't. Almost all of my links disappeared several weeks ago, and who has time to go back and find where everything came from and relink? I am seriously annoyed and frustrated with homesteadblogger.New: "Managing a Home" eBook from The Family HomesteadNew eBook From The Family Homestead! This 60+ page eBook is packed with helpful information laid out in an organized manner on how to manage and organize your home. Click HERE
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Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
We made chocolate ice cream this week and it was delicious!! I promised to post the recipe so here it is! This is a variation of my Strawberry Ice Cream recipe (recipe link at the bottom of this post). As I try out new flavors I will post them here.. Chocolate Ice Cream
6 eggs In a big mixer (like a Kitchen Aid or Bosch) mix together (with the wire whip) the eggs and cane juice crystals until light and lemony colored. Add cocoa powder and vanilla mix again. Add cream and arrowroot powder (if using). When all of this has mixed together completely pour it into your 1 gallon ice cream maker container. Add whole milk until you reach the “fill line” on your ice cream maker container. Follow the instructions that came with your ice cream maker or you can read here: http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/strawberryicecream.htm for basic instructions (the directions are for strawberry ice cream, but the basic “how tos” will work for any flavor). { Last Page } { Page 1 of 5 } { Next Page } |
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