My Horses

We have horses again! The black horse is Sadie and the palomino horse is Star. My children love them as much as I do. They have fun riding. I enjoy going for rides and training my horses. We bought them two years ago and hopefully I'll get a chance to blog more about the progress I've had with training them.

Blessed

My three blessings...Colton, Cherish, Clayton...I love my children! 

Home School ~ Learning ABC

So here I am trying to find time to blog again...I've started a new adventure since the last time I wrote anything on here...I'm now home schooling my 5 year old son in Pre-K and I'm really enjoying it. Colton loves to learn but his attention span is very short, so I have to come up with fun and creative ways for him to learn. I've been trying to teach him letters and numbers.  I've seen these dot art letters on pinterest and finally bought some dot art markers. Colton loves doing them! It's perfect for him. 

Vegetarian Cheese Balls

~Vegetarian Spaghetti Cheese Balls~
2 cups saltine cracker crumbs
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup almond nuts, chopped fine
6 eggs
1 cup finely chopped onion2 Tbs garlic powder
2 tsp sea alt
3 Tbs soy flour
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
Mix and add enough water to make into
an easy dough to handle, shape into small round balls.
Bake 375 degrees for 30 minutes.
(check often, turn over if need to)

Blueberry Pie Recipe

~Blueberry Pie Recipe~
4 cups blueberries
1 cup white sugar (or evaporated cane sugar)
4 TBS cornstarch
1/8 tsp salt
1 TBS butter1 TBS lemon juice
(and my homemade pie pastry crust...recipe below)
Mix berries with sugar, flour, salt, and lemon juice.
Put berry filling into pastry, cut butter on top, and cover with
top pastry crust. Bake 450 degrees , 10 minutes, reduce temperature to
350 degrees and bake 20 to 30 minutes.
~Homemade Pie Pastry Crust~
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup oil
Cut and mix those 2 ingredients together
add 1/4 cup milk and pinch of salt.
Mix and roll between wax paper.

Sweet Bread Recipe

~My Sweet Bread Recipe~
2 cups warm milk
2 scant TBS dry yeast
6 cups bread flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp salt1/4 cup oil
1 egg
(honey for brushing)
In large bowl, dissolve yeast in milk. Stir in sugar and salt.
Add 3 cups flour and mix well. Add oil and egg, mix well.
Add remaining flour, knead until dough is soft, don't over knead.
Cover and let rise one hour. Shape into loaves and raise
30 minutes. (or until doubled in size.) Bake 375 degrees for
about 35 minutes. Remove from oven and brush top with honey. Let cool. Yum! This makes 2 loaves.

My Lemon Cheesecake

~My Lemon Cheesecake~
Ingredients:
16 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sour cream
1 cup evaporated pure cane sugar
3 eggs1 teaspoon vanilla
1 fresh lemon...use the zest and juice of the lemon
one graham cracker pie crust*
Instructions:
1. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until smooth.
2. Pour into crust and bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove from the oven and let cool.
3. Chill for at least 4 hours before serving.
(*Homemade Graham Cracker Crust- one package of graham cracker crushed, 1 stick butter melted, and 1/4 cup evaporated cane sugar or white sugar. Mix and press into pie dish.)