Adventures on My Frontier

Sylvia's Perfect Pie Crust

*1 1/2 c. Crisco (vegetable shortening) 3 c. all purpose flour 1 egg 5 Tbsp. cold water *1...

Nov 30th

Make sure to scrub your potatoes really well! Get all the...

Nov 30th

After washing up the potatoes I put the spices in the big...

Nov 30th

I am cutting these up into steak fries, mmmmm! If you have a...

Nov 30th

As you cut the potatoes to whatever size of slice your heart...

Nov 30th

Toss the bag around a lot to make sure the potato wedges are...

Nov 30th

Drizzle some olive oil onto the baking sheet. Not quite this...

Nov 30th

Here they are, ready to jump into the oven. I arrange them...

Nov 30th

Here is the finished product, delicious, healthy fries. Bet...

Nov 30th

The start of my first foray into pecan pie baking! I lay all...

Nov 29th

Sugars and salt, I used dark brown sugar.

Nov 29th

The lovely corn syrup. I wonder if you could cut back on the...

Nov 29th

Make sure you whip the eggs up real well before adding them...

Nov 29th

Add in the vanilla.

Nov 29th

As you can see in the previous picture I started with a...

Nov 29th

Pouring in the melted butter.

Nov 29th

The lovely homemade crust! The most difficult part of making...

Nov 29th

Make a layer of your chopped pecans on the bottom of the...

Nov 29th

The best part of pecan pie, the pecans, floating up to the...

Nov 29th

Here is the lovely and nutritious Pecan Pie! Mmmmm yummy!...

Nov 29th

Izzy!

Nov 26th

The day before Thanksgiving!

I LOVE all the food made for Thanksgiving! Except for sweet potatoes. I love making it all too!!!...

Nov 26th

Warm baby! Trying out her new hat and mittens… that...

Nov 26th

Take a pause to capture your daughter being goofy and...

Nov 6th

Scrub those roots thoroughly! The goal is to eat the yummy...

Nov 6th

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Nov 6th

The tubers need poked with holes to ensure they will not...

Nov 6th

The potatoes ready to bake for an hour. Keep them on the...

Nov 6th

The potatoes weren’t quite done. So I left them in...

Nov 6th

Delicious, yummy baked potatoes!

Nov 6th

Thoughts

Well, last night a historical event happened. I am extremely excited for our country and our...

Nov 5th

Me soooo tired!!!

Nov 5th

Here is Izzy on a park swing for the first time. She was a...

Nov 5th

My beautiful baby and I in the sun! The day after my hair...

Nov 5th

Izzy is very excited to see that dada found her driving his...

Nov 3rd

Here she is pretending to be old enough to eat a cookie....

Nov 3rd

Izzy is so hungry she proceeds to try out being a zombie...

Nov 3rd

Yogurt, homemade!!

I curried advice from my father about making this. As well as using the recipe from the...

Nov 1st

If you are using milk from a jug or fresh or not canned or...

Nov 1st

I boiled water to put in the crockpot. As a...

Nov 1st

All the necessary ingredients. 2% milk, Plain yogurt with...

Nov 1st

I know this is blurry, dratted phone camera! However if you...

Nov 1st

Here I have added in the evaporated milk to the scalded 2%...

Nov 1st

Per advice from my father I will be adding in more yogurt to...

Nov 1st

The store bought active cultures yogurt has been mixed in...

Nov 1st

Yogurt/milk mixture in the heated-by-boiling-water crockpot....

Nov 1st

Yogurt setting, wrapped up to keep it warm. You could use...

Nov 1st