Happy Birthday America!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe 4Th of July!!!

Hamburger Buns

I made Crystal's Hamburger Buns yesterday, and they came out so nice. The recipe was pretty similar to my dinner Roll recipe:)

What a happy little dough all risen

Side view

All done~~~~Yummy!


I am day two of my sourdough starter, it looks good today (Crossing fingers)

Homemade Cream Cheese

I Did it!!!

Even though my sourdough starter did not work, my cream cheese came out fabulous!! I will definitely be making this for my bagels. Look at how good it came out.

Here is the cream cheese on my homemade bagels. My daughter ate this for breakfast

This is the yogurt I used. I just got a glass bowl, put a colander that fit over it, and put a cheese cloth in that colander, I poured half the container of yogurt into the cheese cloth, set it in my refrigerator with a plate over the top , and then this morning I got this wonderful cream cheese:)

Some of you may wonder, why I want to do something like this, when it is so much easier to just buy the cream cheese at the store. Well, for me it is just so much fun to be able to make things like this, kind of like an accomplishment of sorts.

I am not giving up on my sourdough starter, I have started a new batch, I am going to do this...LOL

Thursday

Well, I threw out the sour dough starter I had going. There were absolutely NO bubbles. I made the mistake of stirring it with a metal spoon and after that it all seem to go down hill from there. So I am restarting it today and I am hoping it will work, I am determined:)

Today I am making these absolutely wonderful hamburger buns, Crystal posted about on her blog. Hers looked Beautiful and so yummy.

I am going to shred the rest of my chicken from last nights dinner, and add onion and butter and cheese on put those on those pretty buns. I will make some Corn on the cobb a fresh salad with lots of fresh veggies and of course French Fries:)

Happy Thursday
It is always laundry day in my household...LOL

Wednesday

Wednesday seems to be my busiest day of the week. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I did not get too much done around the home. It was Alexis's birthday so we did a lot for her. Today I am staying put and doing my laundry, making Dinner Rolls, Doing all sorts of things in my kitchen. I am going to also try Deniece's recipe for making cream cheese, wish me luck on that. I make homemade Bagels, so this hopefully will be just perfect, if mine looks as good as DeNiece's. I have eggs boiling on my stove top, I also made lemonade and put some in the freezer in my Popsicle holders. That is pretty much what is going on around here. Last night I made fried pork chunks with cabbage and a beautiful green salad. Tonight will be baked chicken with all the fixings. Happy Wednesday to you!

Sourdough Update

Here is an update on my Sourdough Starter~~~~>

This picture is on day 3

This picture is day 5
....and on Friday it will be day 7, and I will bake my bread. The bubbles were so much in the beginning and now there aren't any this morning. I will keep doing this and if I fail, I will try again:)

Happy Birthday To My Girl!

Today is my daughter's 8th birthday. We spent the day at the American Girl place in LA Yesterday. I made reservation for her cafe lunch with her best friend and their dolls. Her Cousin Emma that she is very close too, came down with the flu and was unable to make it, we sure did miss her. The lunch was absolutely beautiful. The way the table was set, the perfect service, it was awesome and the little girls were made to feel like princesses. After lunch the girls went shopping. Alexis got a new doll for her birthday, the Rebbecca Doll. I took a bunch of pictures of her day, so I hope you enjoy her day at The American Place:)

Week 4

This is my Topsy Turvy at week 4. It is has grown quite a bit since week one. I am very happy with it's growth. I have noticed about 5 buds so far.

Easy Sourdough Starter.

Okay, so I did some research on the net and found a recipe that looks pretty simple and easy, so we shall see if it works. I just started it today. All it was, was one cup of flour and one cup of warm water~~I used bottled.

Here is the website, I got the recipe from. You have to peek at this website, tons of recipes on it:)

Sourdough Starter

It says that in 7 days after doing everything I am supposed to I should be able to make sourdough bread. Oh, I hope this works~~Wish my luck...LOL.

Also, I looked at You Tube and watched a few vidoes of how to do it too.