Peach Ice Cream!

Can I just say YUMMY!?!

I don't have the recipe, but what I can say is the peach ice cream was delicious and I espeically liked the glaze that we made to put over it. It hardened when it hit the ice cream and was chewy goodness in our mouths! And i'm so proud of the crowd we had together for this!

So good that we couldn't even get a picture before it was all gone!

Also we recently made some super cute necklaces. I don't have any pictures but it was fun to see how creative we could all be with one idea/pattern!

Thanks girls for being such awesome friends and homemakers!

tomato basil soup

Oh, ladies, here is that recipe for that delicious and easy tomato soup:

Ingredients

• 2 (28 ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can chicken broth
• 18 fresh basil leaves, minced
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine

Directions

1. In a large saucepan, bring the tomatoes and broth to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Add basil and sugar. Reduce heat to low; stir in cream and butter. Cook until butter is melted.

Park City BREAKFAST!

I had some requests for recipes from the yummy (if I do say so myself) breakfast we had in Park City.

French Toast:
Great Harvest Cinnamon Burst Bread (this is the key to amazing french toast)
Eggs (2 eggs per 4ish peices)
Milk (1/3 cup per 2 eggs)
Cinnamon (about 1-2 tsp, but really as much as you want, the more the merrier)
Nutmeg (ditto)
Ginger (ditto)
Vanilla (1 tsp per 2 eggs)

Heat stovetop to med/med-high. Mix eggs, milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and vanilla in a bowl or pan. I like using the 9x9 cake pans, they are a good size for dipping slices of bread into. One at a time, coat slices of bread in mixture and place on greased skillet or frying pan. After about 2-3 minutes, flip, then wait 2-3 more minutes and remove.

Syrup:
(I was tempted to keep this one to myself)
1 cube butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 T Karo syrup
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

Heat stovetop to med-high. In a saucepan, melt butter completely. Add sugar, buttermilk and karo syrup. Bring to a boil. Note that this will start bubbling, become foamy, and double in size, so make sure your saucepan is big enough, or just take it off the burner before it overflows. But it is important to make sure that it starts bubbling. Once bubbling for about 1 min, remove from head. Add vanilla and baking soda. When you add the soda, it may slightly expand again, beware. Now its ready to eat! You can keep any leftovers in your fridge for about one month. Just reheat it in the microwave until it bubbles and becomes frothy.

Christmas Morning Casserole:
3 slices bread, cubed (white or wheat)
1/2 lb. grated cheddar cheese
1 lb. cooked ground sausage
1/3 cup diced onion (optional)
1/8 cup diced green pepper (optional)
12 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 tsp mustard powder (optional)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

topping:
2/3 can cream of mushroom soup
1/3 cup milk

In an 8x12" pan, layer bread, cheese, sausage, onion, and green pepper. In a separate bowl, mix together eggs, 1 cup milk, mustard powder, salt, and pepper. Pour over bread mixture and let soak in the refrigerator overnight. The next morning, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix cream of mushroom soup with milk. Pour over egg mixture. Put water in a pan or cookie sheet and place in oven. Set baking dish over pan with water (this prevents the bottom from burning - but you don't have to do this if you have a convection oven, like we had at the lodge). Bake for 45-50 minutes or until eggs are set. (Note, you can substitute bacon for sausage, or both!)

Orange Julius:
2/3 cup orange juice concentrate, thawed
1/2 cup sugar
10-12 ice cubes
1 cup milk
1 cup water (if needed)
1 tsp vanilla

Mix all ingredients in blender. I would add the water last, if you feel like its needed. I think this makes enough for 2-4 people.

And since I forgot to post this recipe after we made it for homemakers a couple of weeks ago...

Pumpkin Cake Roll:
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 T lemon juice
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp ginger

filling:
8 oz. cream cheese
4 T butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat eggs and sugar together. Add pumpkin and lemon juice, mix well. In a separate bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, and spices. Add dry to wet ingredients and mix until incorporated. Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper and spray generously with pam. Pour mixture onto cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool for at least 10 minutes (DO NOT try to do the next step without letting it cool. It MUST cool.). Sprinkle a small amount of powdered sugar on a towel and invert the cake onto the towel. Remove waxed paper. Beat together filling ingredients. Spread over cooled cake. Roll up carefully. Chill in fridge before serving.

See pictures below of us eating breakfast.

Enjoy!

PaRk CiTy!!

This past weekend a bunch of us got together and went to Park City. I found a really great deal on a place in the Canyons that ended up being even nicer than we expected! We started the night by meeting up at the Castle's. We caravaned up to Midway where we ate at a mexican restaurant with like 30 different kinds of salsas. DELICIOUS!

On the trip to Park City we had:



Me and Casey


Hayley and Jake

Marti and Collin

Collin was nice enough to practice polygamy for the weekend and take on a second date. Lucky man, Marti AND Corrine!!

Corrine :)

Ben and Sara

Kara and Tyler

AND Lexi and Greg

When we got to the lodge, the wine glasses were in instant hit with the guys! Apparently there's something very attractive about drinking water from a wine glass.

And us girls did a similar pose to the one we did last year in Park City.

This year, the bed was big enough to fit all thirteen people for a group shot!

After checking out our room for the night, we checked out the pool and hot tub.

Let's just say the girls stayed warm in the hot tub,

While the boys did some aerial synchonized swimming.

The hot tub was really cool... in the shape of a donut. At one point we all got our work out in for the night by making a lazy river.

Hayley put together a FABULOUS breakfast. She made a delicious breakfast casserole, her incredible syrup with french toast, fruit, orange julius and of coarse, cheesy hashbrowns.

We had a wonderful trip to the Escala. Now we are ready for the Outlets!

CHEESECAKE

This week for homemakers we made Liesel Galletly's DELICIOUS chocolate cheesecake. I would give you all the recipe, but I have been sworn to secrecy. Jessica and Marti both had midterms so our numbers this week were kinda dwindling... but Corrine, Hayley, Anna and I were able to enjoy some cheesecake. Also Corrine brought some home for Marti and Colin... I hope it made it!

I put a picture of a home in honor of "homemakers" on the big cheesecake...

And out of the kindess of my heart I put some canadian chocolate, Cadbury Caramilks on the small ones for the girls to take home to thier significant others...

Homemade homemaker bread and ice cream :)

As most of you know, I love easy, simple and few ingredient recipes. I love this bread recipe for that reason... it's simple and fast. I got it from my mother-in-law who is a fantastic cook. You can use it for bread, dough for pizza, dough for calzones, rolls, even a lot of dessert.

1/4 Cup Sugar

1/2 T Salt

1/2 T Yeast

1 1/2 T Lecithin

2 Cup Hot Water

5 1/4 Cup flour ( or wheat)

Mix all ingredients for 1 minute. Knead for 5 mins. Let rise 25 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes.

We experimented with different shapes of bread and different toppings. We made some croissants, some cheese bread and some cinnamon bread.

We also made some ice cream. I debated putting this picture up because it doesn't even start to depict how delicious the ice cream was. We made peach cinnamon and let me tell you- it was great! All I can potray from this picture is notice how empty the container is... we gobbled it up! Jessica with ingredients to come :)

Tarantula

Caution: If you have arachnophobia, this may give you nightmares.

This last Tuesday, Jessica, Marti, Nicole, and I gathered to make peach ice cream (can you say, YUM?!). We were in need of some ingredients so we all piled in Marti's car and headed for the store. About 3 minutes into our journey Marti yells, THAT WAS A SPIDER!!!, and flips her car around. As she's flipping around I look back and see a large black spot crossing the road. Sure enough, a tarantula was crossing the road.

Did you hear me???

A TARANTULA!!!!!!!!!!!

Do those even exist in Utah???? We didn't think so.

We were all in shock for a few minutes, didn't know what to do, tried calling animal control with no luck. Soon enough, a family was walking down the street so we asked them if they had seen tarantulas in this area. They acted shockingly calm and said yes, they don't bite and aren't poisonous. We debated throwing rocks at it, running it over with the car, and finally just decided to leave it be.

Lucky tarantula.

Disgusting tarantula, more like.

I just have to say that I couldn't fall asleep last night because in the dark the fan on my bedroom ceiling was looking very similar to the tarantula and royally freaking me out.

Here are some pretty crappy pictures I took with my phone. They don't do it justice.

Are you proud of how close I got to it? Yeah, I'm pretty brave. So were the other girls.

At this point, it was getting pretty late, so we decided we would skip making ice cream that night and call our tarantula adventures our homemakers for the week.

I'm still looking forward to peach ice cream, soon, though!