A Busy Night ...

January 19, 2017

I arrived at the Knight household this afternoon ...

The grandchildren arrived home from school and we got busy with dinner ... 

After Ella showed me her new house and her bean bag chair ... we headed to the kitchen ...

First of all Ella figured we needed to bake a "Crazy Cake" for dessert ...

Ella gathered all the ingredients for the recipe ...

She is so helpful ... measuring everything herself ... and placing the prepared batter in the oven ...

 

I already had the spaghetti sauce made ... and while the pasta was cooking ...

James made his famous Caesar Salad ...

We enjoyed a lovely dinner ... loved all the chatter ... and laughing ...

 

While Ella was icing and decorating the cooled cake ...

I taught the boys how to set up and play Solitaire with real cards ...

 as opposed to playing it on their iPads ...

After a few games we sat down at the table and had our dessert ...

While I finished cleaning up the kitchen ... I helped Ella with her spelling words ...

We decided to play other card games ...

until it was time to go to bed ... as they had school the next day ...

 

Gluten Free Baking ...

December 13, 2016

It was going to be another busy baking day ...

hoping to get it all done today ...

This batch of gingerbread boys are going to be gluten free for Daigen ...

This flour mix is the best I have found ...

you can use any recipe as the quantity needed is cup for cup ...

The dough was prepared and put in the refrigerator to set ... for a few hours ...

Next on the agenda was going to be the Meringue cookies ...

made with chopped pecans ... chocolate chips and crushed candy canes ...

Sugar ... cream of tarter ... and vanilla were added ...

then whipped until stiff ...

All the other ingredients were folded in ...

 

A teaspoon of the mixture was placed on the cookie sheet ...

and placed in the oven at a low temperature ... baked until they were lightly browned and dry ...

This cookies melt in your mouth ... and are one of my favourites ...

It was time to take a break ... from working with cookies ...

As I was cleaning up the dishes ... looking out the window ...

I noticed that a few elk had arrived ... foraging for food ...

They have been bedding down in the field overnight night the last few days ...

The gingerbread men would still take another hour in the fridge ...

before the dough would be ready to roll out and bake ...

Thought I would finish up with writing our Christmas cards ...

to be mailed within the next few days ...