I am alive.....
It has been too long since I've posted a note here. Life never seems to get less busy. The Compassion Garden is done, it is snowy outside and I am spending my days baking bread. My thoughts turn to cooking and so I thought I would update this blog.
A year ago, a friend gave me a subscription to Nutrition Action. I love the newsletter! It has such important information and good advice. They recently recommended the instant multi grain cereal called Simple Harvest. I love multi grain things and actually went to check it out at the grocery store. It was about $3.50, so I didn't buy any. Instead I bought some 10-grain hot cereal at the Amish store. Later that day I went to our local outlet store and wouldn't you know......they had a huge stock of Simple Harvest: brown sugar and pecan; vanilla, almond and honey and apple and cinnamon....a package of 8 for $1.50. It was still more expensive than the less processed grains from the Amish, but it was reasonable enough for me to try. It is an instant cereal you just add hot water to or put in the microwave. So I bought some and was quite pleased. Nutrition Action did not steer me wrong.
It is a bit sweet like they said, so the second time I used it I mixed it with the other 10-grain cereal I bought from the Amish. I made it like I do steel cut oats: 1 cup of grain placed in 4 cups of boiling water, turn off the heat and let sit overnight. The next morning I place a serving in the microwave for a minute and it is ready to eat. I store the rest in the fridge and heat it up most mornings. I thought I would share my latest local "find" thanks to Nutrition Action!
It is once again bread season around our home. I love December just for the bread making. I wish I had the discipline to bake bread every week and not just sporadically through the year like I normally do. Baking 10 loaves everyday these days to deliver to people in our meeting makes me love a month I usually hate. I hate the commercialization of Christmas. Maybe that is why I like making and baking bread. It has little to do with shopping and presents. It has everything to do with friends and fellowship and sharing life through the breaking of bread. I will be making cinnamon rolls on Saturday Dec. 22 for those who want to join me at the church. My tradition is to serve cinnamon rolls after meeting for worship on the Sunday before Christmas. Those who join me to help make cinnamon rolls get to take a pan home for their families.....a fair trade?
That is it for now......
A year ago, a friend gave me a subscription to Nutrition Action. I love the newsletter! It has such important information and good advice. They recently recommended the instant multi grain cereal called Simple Harvest. I love multi grain things and actually went to check it out at the grocery store. It was about $3.50, so I didn't buy any. Instead I bought some 10-grain hot cereal at the Amish store. Later that day I went to our local outlet store and wouldn't you know......they had a huge stock of Simple Harvest: brown sugar and pecan; vanilla, almond and honey and apple and cinnamon....a package of 8 for $1.50. It was still more expensive than the less processed grains from the Amish, but it was reasonable enough for me to try. It is an instant cereal you just add hot water to or put in the microwave. So I bought some and was quite pleased. Nutrition Action did not steer me wrong.
It is a bit sweet like they said, so the second time I used it I mixed it with the other 10-grain cereal I bought from the Amish. I made it like I do steel cut oats: 1 cup of grain placed in 4 cups of boiling water, turn off the heat and let sit overnight. The next morning I place a serving in the microwave for a minute and it is ready to eat. I store the rest in the fridge and heat it up most mornings. I thought I would share my latest local "find" thanks to Nutrition Action!
It is once again bread season around our home. I love December just for the bread making. I wish I had the discipline to bake bread every week and not just sporadically through the year like I normally do. Baking 10 loaves everyday these days to deliver to people in our meeting makes me love a month I usually hate. I hate the commercialization of Christmas. Maybe that is why I like making and baking bread. It has little to do with shopping and presents. It has everything to do with friends and fellowship and sharing life through the breaking of bread. I will be making cinnamon rolls on Saturday Dec. 22 for those who want to join me at the church. My tradition is to serve cinnamon rolls after meeting for worship on the Sunday before Christmas. Those who join me to help make cinnamon rolls get to take a pan home for their families.....a fair trade?
That is it for now......
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