Saturday Baking

Marlena checking to see if we added enough sugar.

Scott doing precision lattice work

The final project.

We had a great family activity this weekend, baking a cherry pie! Marlena did a great job of mixing the ingredients for the filling. She had to taste everything. The sugar was her favorite but the salt and the vanilla extract did not get a good response! I put the crust ingredients together and Scott did my least favorite part and that is the rolling out of the dough and the lattice work. He has to have the lattice work on a cherry pie. I made it one time without it and I think I ruined his whole experience. Baking this way was a great family project and made the process a lot more fun for me! I think there may be more weekend pies in the future.

In Search of the Duros

I have been craving duros. Every once in a while I get a strong craving for duros, I can't blame it on the pregnancy. Straight out of the frying pan or with a little cayenne pepper. I used to be able to get them at HEB and then I could only get them at Walmart. I went to search for them and they were no where to be seen! I was about to search for the nearest Fiesta Foods then I remembered we had a grocery store that was once a Fiesta Foods and EUREKA, they were there. I got some duros, pan dulce and even found some tres leche cake. It is going to be a good Friday evening.

Fortunately for me I will not be arrested by the library police. I found the missing library book. I turned the house upside down looking under all the beds and in all the drawers. I finally found it right there on the shelf at the LIBRARY!!! Next time I will look there first.

Chicken! It's what's for dinner!

Nothing like having a big chicken come out right before you have your chicken wings! It did not seem to bother Scott to much, he enjoyed his wings.

Weekend Activities

My parents came for a visit this weekend and we all had a great time. Marlena showed them her necklace making kit. This kit gives me about 30 minutes of time to clean or do other household chores. I bought an assortment of beads for about 3 dollars but then I bought some pasta. Marlena's abuelos actually dyed the pasta different colors and my dad found a good use for those colorful straws I bought earlier. He cut them into smaller pieces. Now I need to find other inexpensive things for her kit.

Here is instructions on dying pasta if you want to try it.

Need:

Pasta

Plastic bags

Food coloring

Rubbing alcohol

1. Add about a teaspoon of rubbing alcohol to each bag of macaroni and several drops of food coloring desired to each bag depending on how much pasta you are looking to dye.Close the bag and shake until the pasta is coated.

2. Lay out wax paper and spread out pasta so that it can dry. We left ours out over night. I think it worked great!

Let's see if this works

Let's see if my tech skills are up to date. I found out I can post
blog entries with a cell phone, or can I? Humm I guess we shall soon
find out. This could be handy for long park stays. I feel I should get
caught up with all this technology before Lena starts kindegarden. I
have two more years to learn HTML!

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