Easy Banana Muffins

Wet Ingredients

Mix Together:

3-4 Large Bananas mashed

1/2 Cup of sugar

1 Egg

1/3 Cup of melted butter (let butter cool a bit or it will cook your egg if you pour it in hot)

Dry Ingredients

Mix Together:

1.5 Cups of all purpose flour (I use King Arthur unbleached all purpose white flour)

1 tsp of baking soda

1 tsp of baking powder

Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients and scoop into greased muffin tin or use muffin tin liners.

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

My boys are not big muffin fans but they love these muffins.

Enjoy!

Happy Homesteading and Hunting, 

Jenn

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Easy From Scratch Dinner Rolls

Do you love the soft and chewy rolls from the supermarket and wish you could make a healthier homemade version for your family?

This roll recipe is so easy you're going to love it! I get a lot of compliments from people when they eat these rolls. My husband has been known to eat three or four in one sitting. The best thing about them is that they only take about an hour to make and you usually have all the ingredients on hand.



Ingredients:

2 cups of all-purpose flour
2 cups of wheat flour
(you can use 4 cups of all-purpose flour if you want white rolls)
1/4 cup of sugar
1 Tbsp of rapid rise yeast
1 tsp of salt
3/4 cup of water
2/3 cup of whole milk
4 Tbsp of butter cut into chunks

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees.

In your KitchenAid mixer bowl put in the 4 cups of flour, sugar, yeast, and salt. Mix this well with a spoon.

 

 

 

Attach your KitchenAid dough hook and bowl with flour mixture in it to the mixer stand.

 

 



On your stovetop put 3/4 cups of water, 2/3 cups of milk, and 4 Tbsp of butter in a sauce pan on low heat until butter is melted.

Mix the stovetop ingredients with the flour ingredients. Turn your KitchenAid mixer on the stir speed until dough forms a nice soft ball and has picked up all the flour in the bowl. This will usually take 3-4 minutes and you will have to stop the mixer to scrape sides of the bowl to insure that the flour is mixing well with the wet ingredients.

Lightly flour your countertop and roll dough into an approximate 6x12 rectangular shape. Take a knife and cut lengthwise into 3 sections and widthwise into 5 sections giving you 15 squares of dough total. Butter a 9x13 pan. Make dough balls out of the square dough sections and place in the greased 9x13 pan.

Shut the preheated oven off and stick in your rolls in for 20 minutes. After the 20 minutes, take the rolls out and heat oven to 375 degrees. While the oven is heating, melt some butter in a dish and brush it on the tops of the rolls.

Once the oven is heated to 375 degrees, stick the rolls back in and bake for 15 minutes.

 

 

I hope you enjoy these rolls and make sure to leave a comment if you try this recipe!

 

 

Jenn

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Making Lemon Bars and Other Random Stuff

We managed to finish up the garage project last week. Now we want to build a porch, run a line for an outside hose, and put up some outside lights on the deck. We also need to finish the basement which Glen started painting yesterday. Things are moving right along and soon we will be completely done with our little house.

The weather is starting to warm up and I feel spring in the air which makes me think about gardening. Glen will start working up a patch of ground for us as soon as it dries up a bit. This will be our first year gardening in Kentucky.

Making Lemon Cream Cheese Bars from the KitchenAid cookbook.



 



 

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Knitting

What's up with this weather? Saturday is was 65 degrees, Tuesday was an ice storm that turned into flash flood warnings, and last night it was snowing.

Since the weather is not cooperating for very many outside activities right now, and since we do not have a vehicle during the daytime hours anymore, my little guy and I have taken up some crafting projects. Even Glen is getting into it.

 



I love this man. He doesn't care that people will laugh at him. I think he's wonderful and he's all mine!

 

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Deep Thoughts

There hasn't been too much going on around here lately. We had a real cold streak last week that ended up busting one of our pipes at the kitchen sink. Thank goodness I married a handyman who had it fixed the same day.

We spent New Years Eve with some friends and I baked some more homemade bread and an apple pie. I am still in love my KitchenAid mixer. Unfortunately, we did not get a deer this year to try out the grinder attachment. Hopefully next year we can put it to use.

School has been going well with my little guy. It's funny how only having one vehicle and being forced to stay home actually makes it easier to get your responsibilities done. He is doing a mixture of 3rd and 4th grade curriculum this year. We are reading missionary biographies and we absolutely love them. They are so inspirational. We are reading about George Muller right now. He opened the first orphanage in Bristol and relied only on God to provide what was needed for it, and God did provide.

God has been working in my heart a lot lately. All the changes that have happened in the last year have really allowed me to grow. Although I have to say, at first, it made me feel farther away from Him. I am so painfully aware of how short life is right now and how you can, and will, lose people you love at any given moment. We get so caught up in our daily lives of bills and material things that we forget this.

I don't want to forget.

I want to remember so I can love people like they need to be loved. I feel an urge to shout to everyone that they need to trust in Jesus. It's the only way to have peace during this hard life. Life with loved ones does not have to end here on earth if we choose to believe God's word and follow it.

Some photos for you:

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My KitchenAid Mixer

We had a lot going on this weekend at the farm. Friday night I went out with a couple of my good friends to celebrate my birthday. We went shopping and ate at the Olive Garden. I also bought my birthday present....a KitchenAid Mixer!!! I have wanted on of these babies for years! Let's just say by noon on Saturday all this was going on! I LOVE it!!

I made two loaves of bread and a batch of cookies with my new KitchenAid Mixer. It works wonderfully. I think I got a pretty good deal from Kohl's on it with Kohl's cash and all the Christmas promotions going on right now. I guess that's one benefit of having a birthday so close to Christmas.

We also built a stable for the youth's Christmas play at our church this weekend.

Glen and Evan also spent the weekend putting back together the John Deere tractor we bought for  Evan to use. He is going to be helping with our food plot planting come this spring. This is his daddy giving him a driving lesson.

A couple more pictures to let you in on some of my chores for the weekend. When Glen and I built our house we decided not to install a dishwasher. WE do it the old fashioned way. Yes, WE, Glen does lots of dishes. Real men do dishes, just sayin. My husband is a keeper for sure.

This is how I do dishes.

My daily game with dishes is to see how many I can pile in the dish drainer before I have to dry some. I am happy to report there is only drip drying going on here most days. This was one of my mother-in-law's pet peeves. She just HAD to dry the dishes. She could not let me or my sister in law leave them in the drainer. She passed away April 18, 2013. I'd love for her to dry my dishes again. I wouldn't even roll my eyes this time when she insisted.

Love your family while you have them folks because life is short.

~Jenn



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