Cooking that reminds me of my Momma and my Mammaw

 This recipe was given to my mom from Rose Marie Wilson.  Mom used to make this quite often and my Mammaw made her spaghetti a lot like this too.  This spaghetti doesn't have a spaghetti sauce, just some canned tomates, so it is not saucy at all.  But it has a very good flavor!  You top the dish with cheese and bake! Great with a salad, and garlic bread!  I served with smothered squash.

Reading is something that I enjoy and I just don't take the time to do it very often.  I love to craft, cook, and sew so it seems like I put reading on the back burner. But I started a Kristin Hannah book a few weeks ago and I am finally getting well into it. The book is Night Road, and so far it is very good.  I'm going to try to finish it today. 

I really need to be cleaning up this house, but I would a lot rather read or craft, than clean!!!!

So, off I go to clean a little and read some too!

Strawberry Jam

2 pints strawberries, 4 cups sugar, 1 box pectin,

2 cups chopped strawberries, I chop in the food processsor, and then measure to make 2 cups.

Wash and rinse plastic containers with lids. Use 1-2 cup size containers.

Wash and prepare fruit. 

Place fruit in bowl, Add exact amount of sugar. Let stand 10 min, for sugar to dissolve. Stir occasionally.

Stir one box pectin and 3/4 cup water in small saucepan, bring to boil on high stirring constantly. Boil 1 min. Remove from heat.

Stir pectin mixture into the fruit and stir until all sugar is completely dissolved and no longer grainy.  About 3 min. 

Pour into prepared containers leaving 1/2 space at top.

Let stand at room temp for 24 hours. Refrigerate for 3 weeks, store in freezer for 1 year!!!

 

Bread and Strawberry Jam

 

Making Bread with the Bread Machine!

It’s been lots of fun the last two days making bread and using the bread machine. Found a good recipe and here it is:

1 cup warm water 110 degrees

1 T milk

2 T oil

2 T honey

2 T brown sugar

1 tsp. Salt

3 cups flour

2 tsp. Instant active dry yeast

Place all ingredients in the bread machine and allow it to make your dough.

You can then place in a bread pan and allow to rise, or you can just continue with the bread machine. I did the fast method on my machine and it worked great.  Bread in about 60 min.

If you bake in the oven, bake at 350 for 30 min,  

The shape of the loaf will be nicer in the bread pan, but the convenience of the machine is wonderful!

January 9, 2025 Recovery and Cooking

 

January 9, 2025

Just wanting to write a little journaling topic here, I had gall bladder surgery almost 2 weeks ago, and man has it been one heck of a two weeks.  The surgery was painful enough, but I developed some type of respiratory crude with coughing. And you do not want to cough after surgery.  It hurt so bad on my left side and into my back.. I think I pulled muscles in my back.  This surgery was laproscopic, so I don't know why it would have been hurting so bad on my left side below a small incision, but the pain there has been horrible, and it still hurts there to this day.  The pain is getting better, but I sure have had a major time with it.  I slept in the chair for the majority of the time.  Finally slept in the bed the last 3 nights. I still can't sleep on my sides, the way I normally sleep , but it will get better!  I just know it will. 

Since I have been feeling better, and sooooooo bored with TV, I decided to cook some things.  I havent used my bread machine for a couple of years, and I saw it in the pantry, and I had seen a recipe for a bread machine dough, so decided I would try this, It turned out really well,  and I gave most of it to Holly, so I made some more today.

Another thing I made yesterday was some Strawberry Freezer Jam, just like my momma and my mimmie used to make. My friend Wendy was talking about an Amish girl on instgram making a video of strawberry freezer jam, I told her it was delicious. So natural with this nudge and remembrance, I placed my Walmart pickup order and began the journey to make homemade bread and homemade jam.

A Day in the Life of the Lazy B

I added many entries to this blog because I had a blogspot and I don't know how to make these two connect! So now I'm using this Blog that is part of Google. I've been very busy making a rag garland and goats milk lotion and soap.  Trying to get some things together for my next camping trip, taking a few lotions, soaps and bug repellent to share ands sell there.  Also, baking for Thanksgiving and all the fun food times coming up. Well, I'll continue in a bit.  Headed to the Grocery Store now. 

Many New Things Happen'n at the Lazy B

 

Many New Things Happen'n at the Lazy B

I haven't posted in about 3 years.  I was busy with grand baby number 2 when I last posted, and since then we have welcomed grand baby number 3 to the family.  We treasure all the time that we get to spend with all 3 grands, and our daughters and their husbands.  

We Love These precious grands!!!

In the last two and 1/2 years I have been busy.  I took the activity director position at a nursing home and did this for 2 years. I loved so many of the people, but it was a lot like teaching and I was having to drive every day and so I decided to retire again from that occupation. I am now staying home and really staying busy.  We have a garden this summer, so I have been canning and making pickles. Mustang grape jelly and  many homemade goodies.  We purchased some baby pygmy goats and just bought a mini nubian goat.  I hope to be able to milk her and then make some cheese, lotion, and soap. When she is old enough.   Oh yes, and we do have chickens.  I'm going to be sharing some pics of all these precious animals on our Lazy B soon.  

Garden Harvest

 

SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2017

Garden Harvest

DILL PICKLES

WE'VE HAD AN ABUNDANCE OF BEAUTIFUL VEGETABLES OUT OF OUR GARDEN THIS YEAR, SO I'VE BEEN MAKING PICKLES, CHOW CHOW, RELISH. ROASTING TOMATOES, MAKING HOT SAUCE, JELLIES, AND ANY OTHER GOODIES THAT I CAN THINK OF. 

Hope I can share many of these goodies that I"ve been making with family and friends.  Happy Summer Everyone!!  and with a side note I have made a change to the recipe. I decided the 4 cups of water to the 4 cups of vinegar should be the right amount.  It seems like the pickles get a little stronger as they sit.  

Meet Lou!!

MONDAY, JULY 24, 2017

Meet Lou!!

Meet Lou, she is a mini Nubian, she was born on June 25, 2017.  I was so excited to find her and I am hoping to be able to get her bred and have her produce goat milk, so that I can learn to milk her, make soap and lotion and maybe even learn to make cheese.  I met the sweetest lady who owned her, and currently has her mother. She milks her mother and makes the items that I want to learn to make.  I hope that we can get together when she is producing milk and I can learn some things from her.  Of course, I have been looking on pinterest to learn all I can before it comes time to really be able to milk her and use her milk.  I have thoroughly enjoyed finally just having the time to  be able to do some of the things that I enjoy doing around my home. Thanks for stopping by and seeing my latest project.  Gin

Mammaw’s Pralines

 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Mammaw’s Pralines

Mom and I were visiting yesterday and she told me that Aunt Beth learned to make these pralines from Mrs. Finch. I told her that I had found some praline recipes in mammaw’s  old cookbooks that I had saved from years ago, as she went into the nursing  home. I found two recipes and tried the one of Mrs. O H Finch’s. They turned out pretty good. But they are quite a bit of work!! You have to melt 1 cup of sugar to pour into the cream and sugar mixture. I’m making this post to save this recipe for years to come!!

Homemade Biscuits- Joanna Gaines Recipe- Had to try my hand at these!!

 

Homemade Biscuits- Joanna Gaines Recipe- Had to try my hand at these!!

Tried Joanna’s Biscuits today!! Found the recipe on Pinterest and since we we able to eat there the other day I was anxious to try to make her homemade biscuits!  They turned out really nice and  delicious!!

 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2019

THIS RECIPE WAS GIVEN TO ME BY A DEAR CHURCH FRIEND. EVELYN GRAFF, SHE IS AN AWESOME COOK.  EVERYTHING THAT SHE MADE AND BROUGHT TO CHURCH SUPPERS WAS ALWAYS AWESOME.  SHE IS A DEAR FRIEND OF MY MOTHER IN LAW'S AND THEY STILL PLAY CARDS AND ENJOY EACH OTHERS FRIENDSHIP WEEKLY. ENJOY THIS RECIPE!!

BREAD PUDDING

2 1/2 soft or dry bread crumbs-cubes

3 eggs

1/2 c. sugar

1/8 tsp. salt

2 cups milk

1 t. vanilla

Put bread in casserole, pour milk mixtue over bread.  Place casserole dish in 1 inch water. Bake at 350 for 50-60 min. Knife comes out clean.

Sauce:

2 T. cornstartch

1/2 c. sugar

2 c. milk

1/4 c. butter

1 1/2 t. vanilla

2 egg yolks beaten 

combine startch and sugar gradually add milk, heat stir to thicken. Simmer 2-3 min. Add butter and vanilla. stir into egg yolks a little at a time. Cook and stir one min. 

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2018

PUMPKIN SPICE BREAD

This recipe was given to me by my college roomate.  She would bring this pumpkin bread back to college when she would visit home.  It was absolutely delish. Her mom would bake it in coffee cans, so it was a round loaf.  i have made it every year since. 

Pumpkin Bread (cake)

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

3/4 c. mazola oil

1 cup flour

1 tsp. soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 cup can pumpkin

Bake at 350 for about 50 min per loaf, maybe a little longer. 

4 coffee cans, be sure they are metal, which are hard to find now days. The recipe above makes 1 loaf. Doubled makes four coffee cans

This can be doubled and made into a cake:

There is an icing for the cake, delicious cream cheese

1 box pwd. sugar

1/2 stick oleo or butter

4 oz. cream cheese

1 t. vanilla

1/2 c. pecans

2 T. orange juice