I thought I would tell you about a great Fall giveaway being drawn tomorrow at AE Filkins. Go there to check out what you need to do to have a chance/s at winning a wonderful supply of Fall Decorations.
My favorite fall decorations are cute pumpkins, little signs, and also natural items both as they are found or embellished with glitter. Think gourds, berries, pinecones, pumpkins natural or glittered, acorns natural or glittered, indian corn, apples in a nice wooden bowl. Colored leaves on the table. I LOVE IT ALL!!!
I love the coziness that fall brings in. The crisp air just lends itself to curling up with a throw and snuggling with a little one or other loved ones. I love filling our home with the aroma of simmering spices like cinnamon, cloves and allspice, something that is just not fitting during the Spring and Summer months.
I love being able to bake once again and not wilt the entire household. Baking all manner of loaves and gingerbread. Memories of being 8 in grandma's kitchen and feelings of nourishment envelope me as I endeavour to recreate these times for my own children.
I love the color show that is put on in New England for all to marvel over and delight in. I love apple picking and creating memories with these traditions for my children to store up in their hearts. What do YOU love about Fall? Blog about it and then enter the giveaway, Tuesday is the last day.
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Fall means the oven is back in business!!!
Very happy to have comfortable weather enough to once again employ the oven without wilting the entire household, I eagerly prepared some sandwich bread (we had none) along with cinnamon rolls for breakfast yesterday morning. The two littlest boys slept until almost 10 o'clock in the morning, much to my surprise!! As soon as the rolls were almost ready to pull out, the aroma roused them out of beds and beckoned the two downstairs. Their faces alight with merry surprise, they watched me slip the pan from the oven to the stovetop to cool. Below, is my roll making in pictures. ;-)
Start by rolling your dough out into a thin oblong shape
Spread the sauce all over top surface of the rolled out dough
This is the way we roll them up..roll them up..roll them up..
all rolled up nice and snug
all prepped, just after spooning extra sauce to the tops, and ready to rise
fully risen and ready to go into oven
fresh out of the oven
To make cinnamon rolls, take a basic bread dough recipe:
Basic Bread Dough
Yields:3 loaves
3 cups comfortably warm water
2T yeast
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup olive oil
1 TBSP salt
9 cups flour
I set this in my Bosch kitchen system on level 1 for a couple short minutes to knead. You can also knead by hand.
Then divide dough into 3 equal amounts. I usually make 2 loaves of bread and 1 batch of cinnamon rolls, but you may do it differently depending on your needs. I take the 2 portions and allow to rise covered, until doubled in size, in a place free of drafts. When risen, punch down, shape into two greased loaf pans and allow to rise a second time while you prepare and rise the cinnamon rolls. At the end, they can all go in the oven together, though the bread loaves will take an additional 10 minutes than the rolls.
Now onto the rolls:
Start a stick of butter to melt on low heat in a small saucepan. Add some brown sugar and cinnamon once it begins to melt and stir until dissolved and uniform. I then take my single portion and roll it out very thin in an oblong shape on a sparsely floured surface (to prevent sticking). Spread a good amount of the sauce all over the surface of the bread dough.
Prepare a lasagna type oblong pan with cooking spray.
Be aware: This will be a messy job! Roll up tightly as you can, length-wise as in the pictures above until all the dough is rolled like a carpet ;) Then slice in about 20-26 slices. I use an extremely sharp knife so that I can cut without flattening. I've also seen it done with floss. You can "loosely tie" the floss around the roll and pull to slice each portion from the roll.
Gently place the rolls into prepared pan and allow to rise in a warm place. I then spoon some of the leftover sauce atop each roll. What I do is preheat my oven to 350 degrees, and set the pan of rolls in the microwave above my stove to rise in a warm and safe place. In about 30 min. they will be risen, and you may pop them into the oven to bake for 20 min or until golden brown. Serious. Yum.
You could glaze with maple syrup, but I leave as is. They don't last long enough with the 8 of us to dry out.
To make cinnamon rolls, take a basic bread dough recipe:
Basic Bread Dough
Yields:3 loaves
3 cups comfortably warm water
2T yeast
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup olive oil
1 TBSP salt
9 cups flour
I set this in my Bosch kitchen system on level 1 for a couple short minutes to knead. You can also knead by hand.
Then divide dough into 3 equal amounts. I usually make 2 loaves of bread and 1 batch of cinnamon rolls, but you may do it differently depending on your needs. I take the 2 portions and allow to rise covered, until doubled in size, in a place free of drafts. When risen, punch down, shape into two greased loaf pans and allow to rise a second time while you prepare and rise the cinnamon rolls. At the end, they can all go in the oven together, though the bread loaves will take an additional 10 minutes than the rolls.
Now onto the rolls:
Start a stick of butter to melt on low heat in a small saucepan. Add some brown sugar and cinnamon once it begins to melt and stir until dissolved and uniform. I then take my single portion and roll it out very thin in an oblong shape on a sparsely floured surface (to prevent sticking). Spread a good amount of the sauce all over the surface of the bread dough.
Prepare a lasagna type oblong pan with cooking spray.
Be aware: This will be a messy job! Roll up tightly as you can, length-wise as in the pictures above until all the dough is rolled like a carpet ;) Then slice in about 20-26 slices. I use an extremely sharp knife so that I can cut without flattening. I've also seen it done with floss. You can "loosely tie" the floss around the roll and pull to slice each portion from the roll.
Gently place the rolls into prepared pan and allow to rise in a warm place. I then spoon some of the leftover sauce atop each roll. What I do is preheat my oven to 350 degrees, and set the pan of rolls in the microwave above my stove to rise in a warm and safe place. In about 30 min. they will be risen, and you may pop them into the oven to bake for 20 min or until golden brown. Serious. Yum.
You could glaze with maple syrup, but I leave as is. They don't last long enough with the 8 of us to dry out.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Fall is in the Air...
The air definitely has that Fall feel to it lately. Quite chilly in the morning, and at night, yet the sun warming the surface up to comfortable toward the middle of the day. All of us have begun school at this point, and feelings of when I was 8 sneak into remembrance now and again.
I planted mammoth sunflowers this year, from the harvest seed of my crop last year. They did not get quite as large as they are just now finally blooming due to the strange weather I am sure. It's been unseasonably cool and dark this summer compared to the usual. Here I am faced with a bunch of sunshine along my front walk each day. I so love sunflowers!! I am hoping the flowers mature to the point of giving me more life-filled seeds once again this year before they wither. I live off a very busy road, yet still enjoy bits of God's creation admist it all.
I planted mammoth sunflowers this year, from the harvest seed of my crop last year. They did not get quite as large as they are just now finally blooming due to the strange weather I am sure. It's been unseasonably cool and dark this summer compared to the usual. Here I am faced with a bunch of sunshine along my front walk each day. I so love sunflowers!! I am hoping the flowers mature to the point of giving me more life-filled seeds once again this year before they wither. I live off a very busy road, yet still enjoy bits of God's creation admist it all.
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