New Bread Recipe

A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to watch:
Homestead Blessings: The Art of Bread Making
on http://www.thehomeschoolchannel.tv/

My daughter and I tried their recipe and really like it (even though, to our taste, it needed more salt and sweetness).

So, today, I did just that. I made another loaf of their wonderful bread, tweaking the recipe by adding more salt and more sweetness. YUMMY!!!

Here is The West Ladies original Bread Recipe:

In a bowl:
2 1/2 C. Warm Water

Add:
2 C. Flour
Stir until well mixed.

Add:
1 t. Salt
1/2 C. Oil
1/2 C. Honey
Mix well.

Add:
1 T. Yeast
and mix well.

Add:
1-3 C. Flour...1 C. at a time, mixing well after each addition.

Then, knead in thta bowl til you have a soft dough.
Now place a small amount of oil in the bottom of the bowl. Leave dough in the bowl and let rise til double.

Now, punch the dough down and knead alittle on a lightly floured surface.
Place dough into 2 greased bread pans. Poke holes with a fork. Cover and let rise.
Bake at 350* for 30 minutes.

Salsa

2 Pints Roma Grape Tomatoes - Diced

1 Onion - Diced

1 Green Bell Pepper - Diced

2 Peaches - Peeled and Diced

The juice of 1 Lime

1 T Cilantro - or to taste

2 T Sugar - or to taste

1 t Salt - or to taste

You can add the hot peppers if you like it real hot!

We ate some with Organic Blue Corn Tortilla Chips. YUM!

Garden Tomato Sandwich

Nothing says it's Summertime like a good ole Tomato Sandwich.

Fresh baked bread, fresh picked tomato out of the garden and some organic mayo!

Now that is Good Eatin'!!!

Tomato and Onion Foccasia Bread

For this recipe, I tweaked our Basic Pizza Dough Recipe by adding into the flour:

Approximately 1 tsp each of Basil, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, and Italian Seasoning.

Roll the dough into a rectangle shape to approximately 1/4" thick. Lightly press tips of fingers into the dough to make dimples.

Spread dough with a mixture of heated Olive Oil, Pressed Garlic, and Basil

Place sliced tomatoes and onions on top.

Bake in a preheated 425* oven 8-15 minutes. Keep a watchful eye on it!

You can top with cheese while it is hot.

Pizza Dough

I had some ask about a recipe for Pizza Dough.



This is the basic recipe and instruction that we use.





http://www.monkeysee.com/ruthgresser



I usually tweak it in some way or other ... to our liking.

We love pizza

This is a veggie pizza that my daughter made. Delicious!

We usually make pizza once a week. 100% Organic and 100% GMO Free.

Fresh From our Garden

Our Dogs Eat Healthy, Too

We love our dogs!
Our dogs are not just dogs! They are members of our family...our pets...um, more like...our children.
We love our dogs!
We consider ourselves blessed to have them in our homes.
We strive to be good stewards of their care.
We love our dogs!
Therefore, they, too, eat healthy.
We have found a brand of food that is organic and GMO free, so goodbye Purina!
We make their treats, so goodbye Milkbones!

Did I mention that...
We love our dogs!

Birds in the Begonias

We were noticing some bird activity on our front porch.

To our excitement, we found this:




Everyday, I would go out with the camera, reach it up to the hanging basket and take a picture.

One day I picked up Little A and told him to look at the eggs. He told me he didn't see eggs, but birds.

This little one is HUNGRY!

It was really amazing to watch all this up close.

Papa and Mama Bird took very good care of their little ones. If Mama was off getting food and the babies got restless, Papa would fly in from either a close by tree or the utility wire above our driveway (where he kept vigil). He would perch himself on the basket hanger and look into the nest, checking on his little ones. He would lift his head and chirp several times, then fly away, back to the tree. A few minutes later, Mama would come and feed them.

Oh no! They are really getting to be daredevils. The one at the top left is looking out over the basket.

This past weekend, 2 1/2 weeks after they had hatched, I noticed only 3 birds in the nest. I wondered what had happend to the the other 2, hoping they were ok. Then we watched these 3 fly off into the trees.

AMAZING!

Blessings to you~

Jill (the big sister)

Welcome to our New Home

I had to change our name because Manna Milling Moms was not available.


I sure am hoping this new domain will be more user friendly to this techno-challenged person.

Not sure how to transfer all of our stuff from Homestead. I will give it a try. If it doesn't work, I guess I'll just delete it and start all over.

Thank you for stopping by.

Blessings to you~

Jill (the big sister)