Making Breakfast Sandwiches

 Yesterday, I spent a few hours making sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches to freeze and send with my husband when he goes to work in the mornings.
 Here are some pictures I took while making these sandwiches. Sorry that some of the pictures are not that great. I was getting tired towards the end of the project and my kitchen was becoming more and more messy. :)

Mixing the sausage seasoning into the ground meat for the sausage patties.

Cutting the English Muffin dough into circles, dipping the circles in cornmeal, and setting them aside to rise.

Cooking the English Muffins and the sausage patties in batches on the griddle.

Assembling the sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches.

I allowed all of the components of the sandwiches to cool completely before putting the sandwiches  together and packaging them.

I was able to make 20 breakfast sandwiches to freeze.

I wrapped the sandwiches up in wax paper before putting them in plastic bags and taking them to the freezer.

I am so glad that these are all done and ready to go! They will make my mornings a lot easier. I will not have to worry so much about my husband's breakfast, (I still am going to cook him some hot cereal, but I won't need to fry eggs or anything else.), while I am packing his lunch every morning.

Happy Spring! :)

Today is the first day of spring, and I'm so happy to see some of the trees beginning

to bud and send out leaves, lilies and other flowers sending up their leaves, and hearing the 

birds singing around the yard here. 

Happy Spring! :)

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, 

and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 

Song of Solomon 2:12

None Other Name

 

   Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under 

heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. ~Acts 4:12  

 

 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, 

and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. ~Acts 16:31  

 

Before and After

 Recently, my brothers found a way to clean our Revere Ware pans, which are made with

 copper on the underside of each pan. Once they were done, it made our pans look almost like new!!

 Before,

 And after!

All they needed was a little bit of white vinegar, and some ordinary household

 sea salt. A simple way that I did it was to pour some white vinegar into a dinner plate,

and sprinkle plenty of salt over it. Then, you can just set the pan on the plate to soak 

for a minute or two. (It should almost immediately begin changing color to a bright pink.)

Then, scrub carefully in a circular motion with a scratch pad, and the rest of the tarnish 

and burnt marks should come off easily! If the pan is very discolored from years of use,

it might need more than one application of vinegar and salt, with some extra scrubbing.

Daffodils: They Live!

 Last summer a sweet lady gave me a couple sacks of daffodil bulbs.

 I was so grateful that she thought of giving me the bulbs that she was thinning out of her flower beds.

I planted them in my garden and gave them plenty of water.

The leaves shriveled up right away, due to the shock, and I had no way of knowing if the bulbs below were still alive.

I kept the place where I had planted the bulbs watered, and hoped that I would find shoots in the spring.

Today I went to check on them. 

It looks like they are all coming up! I am so grateful! Daffodils are my favorite early spring bloom. I feel so blessed, first, to be given such a generous amount of bulbs, and second, that they survived the transplanting and the winter. I can't wait to see their blossoms in the near future!

Bird Houses

 I know snow can be exciting, but I am gearing up for spring!

The birds have started to herald spring's impending arrival! (I hear them singing in the mornings.)

And soon they will be looking for nesting sites!

I hope that some of the Blue Birds and House Wrens will choose to nest in my bird houses this spring!

Matthew 6:27+26

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Quick Kitchen Tip: Filling Cream Puffs

 I made some cream puffs last week and wanted to be able to fill them without cutting them open. I used a plastic bag, a straw, a pair of scissors, and scotch tape to make a device to fill the cream puffs.[figure 1]

Figure1

 I cut off a small section of the straw. [figure 2]

Figure 2

I made my cut at an angle so that there would be a point on the tip. The end with a tip would be used to poke into the cream puffs. [figure3]

Figure 3

I then cut a small hole in one of the corners of the plastic bag. [figure 4]

Figure 4

Then I inserted the straw into the hole in the bag, making sure the pointed end was sticking out of the bag. [figure 5]

Figure 5

 I used tape to secure the straw to the bag. [figure 6]

Figure 6

I filled the bag with the cream filling I made to put in the cream puffs. [figure 7]

Figure 7

I poked the straw into the cream puffs and gently squeezed the bag until the puff was filled with cream. [figure 8]

Figure 8

 My make shift pastry bag worked great. So, if you want to fill cream puffs without an obvious incision give this a try.

Donuts For Breakfast

Yeast donuts are one of my husbands favorite treats. I don't make them often. This morning was one of those rare occasions. 

Donuts are not hard to make. I don't make them much because they take more time than oatmeal or fried eggs (my choice for breakfast). When you are the cook you usually get to choose what's for breakfast. At least in this house. :)

This is my donut recipe:

Overnight Donuts

1/4 cup warm water

2 tsp. yeast

1/2 cup milk

2 TBS. butter

2 TBS. sugar

1 egg

3/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

2-2 1/4 cups unbleached all purpose flour

 

Mix water and yeast in a bowl. Heat milk and butter in a small sauce pan just until butter melts; cool to 120* F.

Add sugar, egg, and salt to the yeast and water. Add milk and butter; mix well.

Stir in flour a little at a time until a soft dough is formed. Turn out to a lightly floured surface and knead for 10 minutes until dough is smooth and elastic.

Place dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover, and let rise for an hour or until doubled. Punch down the dough. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

In the morning.....

Roll out dough to 1/2" thick. Cut into desired shapes. Cover with towel and let rise 20-25 minutes.

Deep-fry in hot fat (375*F.) until lightly browned, about 30 seconds per side. 

Drain on paper towel. Coat with powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar, or glaze.

This recipe yields about one dozen donuts.