Where did everybody go?

Somebody out there must be cooking or baking......I haven't though. ...just the usual stuff. I am due for a Trader Joe's run soon. I need some organic peanut butter, and they have it the cheapest around.

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Well, our family has acquired a bread machine. I thought, "How great, just like Trinita." So, I went ahead bought some ingredients and tried to make it from scratch. Wrong!!!!! It came out dead. There is no other way to put it. I had to scrape out the ingredients and re-bake it in the oven. The result: still dead. It was edible this time, although resembling a fiber brick.

On the up side, I think it was the yeast. Did anyone realize that there are different types of yeast? I didn't use the fast acting kind. Ooops. Well, I'll give it another try. I'll just try plain white this time. No sense destroying good ingredients.

Pizzelles and tortilla chips

This was my first crack at pizzelles. I was asked to make some for one of my sister's customers. (She has her own dog grooming business.) The first batch was very sad looking until my Mother intervened and told me that I had to use the clasp on the iron to make them paper thin. Anyway, the recipe itself comes from great Aunt who has now passed away. Her recipe calls for vanilla and lemon extract with anise seeds. She also used corn oil instead of butter or other oils. I think they turned out pretty good for my first try. Now, I can experiment with the recipe to get different tastes.

PS: I have a recommendation from Sister Barbara Mac that our next subject should explore the healthiness of tortilla chips. I'll start.....Trader Joe's has a number of healthy tortilla chips. One of my favorites involves a chip that is made from corn, rice, and something else....I can't remember. Does anyone have any favorite tortilla chips??

Definitely Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

I made two half-batches of chocolate chip cookies last week.  By the time I finished the first one I was so tired of the whole thing since my brown sugar was old and packed together and not mixing well that I made the cookies huge and then left them in longer to cook thoroughly and ended up "kind of" burning them.  But I could tell they still tasted good.  The second half-batch was very good.  That's what the picture is from.  For popularity's sake around the holidays I didn't cut the sugar down too much, but I'm going to start trying to see how low I can go with it soon.

I just followed the recipe on the back of the toll-house chips bag, except that I only used brown sugar (no granulated sugar) and instead of all-purpose flour I used 1/2 whole grain pastry flour and 1/2 whole grain graham flour.  I put some extra chocolate chips in.  I was hoping with the graham and the extra chips that it would be reminiscent of a s'more, but it really wasn't.  It was still a good cookie :)

Carolyn

4 days to the New Year

New resolutions anyone????

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas to all the Trinita Health crazies! Many good wishes and blessings in the New Year! ( I got an interesting dessert book for Christmas.....I'll be trying phyllo crusts for the first time....at some point!)

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Better products will come in heaven!

Well, I had to try some other products because of financial need! ...lol. Anyway, I will be trying a fragrance free Whole Foods hand lotion and a Whole Foods brand shampoo. I'll let you know how that goes. The most important thing I got was the chia seed. They didn't have it last time or I didn't see it there. Anyway, it was 6.99 pound. I don't think it is organic, but it will do for now. I really want to keep using it because I know my diet is deficient in Omega 3's.

Well, I hope to keep baking this weekend. I want to keep trying new Italian cookie recipes. We'll see how they turn out.

And as a side note....it is really way too cold right now!!!! Can we pitch in and buy a house down South somewhere? I was thinking out in the Southwest. We can all move there in the winter. Do I have any takers???