Share Your World – Week 25

Here are the four Share Your World questions for this week.    I hope you have some fun playing along.  It sure is fun learning about all of us.

1. What’s my favorite holiday and why?
   
2. Do you prefer your food separated or mixed together?
3. Before making a phone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say?
4. When yo are with your friends. Do your interactions include much touching—for example, hugging, kissing, rough housing, rubbing backs?   Would you like to have more of this?

See my answers below.

Even though I oftentimes will add photos to my answers, it is not a requirement to participate in Share your World.

NOTE:  Click link to easily find Other Share Your World Week blog entries.

I will be putting out four different questions each week for you to answer.  There are two ways which you can participate.

1. Create a  Share Your World  post.  Then post the link to your blog in my comment box or leave your answers in the comments box of my blog.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Share Your World” tag.
3. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly reminders.

I will state the questions first and then post my answers in the bottom part of my blog.  I’ve also created a banner if you would like one for your blog.

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Here are my answers:

Theme Tuesday: Bauman Farms

For today’s Theme Tuesday, I thought I would highlight a local farm.  They grow most of their own products.  It’s a great place for Chris and I to spend some time (and money).  They also have a petting zoo, which we didn’t get to yesterday so that will be posted.  Hope you enjoy my little tour of Bauman Farms.

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Hugs and blessings

Cee

Share Your World – Week 17

Here are the four Share Your World questions for this week.    I hope you have some fun playing along.  I’m so thrilled some of you participated last week few weeks.  It sure was fun learning about all of us.

1. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
2. What individual item of food would you not eat, even if it was served to you at the Queen/President’s dinner table? (Something ordinary.)
3. If you could choose between Wisdom and Luck, which one would you pick?
4. What was the last time you went to a new place?

See my answers below.

NOTE:  Click link to easily find Other Share Your World Week blog entries.

I will be putting out four different questions each week for you to answer.  There are two ways which you can participate.

1. Create a  Share Your World  post.  Then post the link to your blog in my comment box or leave your answers in the comments box of my blog.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Share Your World” tag.
3. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly reminders.

I will state the questions first and then post my answers in the bottom part of my blog.  I’ve also created a banner if you would like one for your blog.

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Here are my answers:

Gluten Free Walnut Chocolate Chip Cooks – Bob’s Red Mill

This is my entry for Jakesprinter Sunday Post: Recipe Challenge.  It is an unusual one for me.  I’m not a real good cook.  In fact, I would be a great candidate for Food Network Channel’s Worst Cooks in America television show.   I’m getting off the subject here.

Chris needs to eat gluten free and in our real small kitchen, we don’t have room for all the various flours we need to bake for her.  So we bake with Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free products in this house.  We discovered  Bob’s Red Mill because they are based here in Oregon about 30 minutes north of us.  I use their gluten free products to bake things for Chris all the time.

All the dry ingredients for Chris’s cookies.

Cookies ready to bake in my Breville countertop convention oven.

My kitchen Aid mixer at work mixing the dough.

Ready for eating!!

So here is the recipe with their mix.  I never follow a recipe exactly even with a mix.

• One package Gluten Free Chocolate Cookie Mix
• 2 Tablespoons Water
• 3/4 cup butter (recipe asks for 1/2 cup)
• 2 eggs (recipe asks for 1 egg)
• 1.5 cups chopped walnuts (added to recipe and that is why I put in extra butter to make the batter accept this many nuts)
• Mix eggs and butter together until smooth, then slowly add in the dry ingredients.
• Bake at 350 degrees.  Time depending on how big your cookies are.  For a 2″ cookie I bake them around 16 minutes in a Breville counter top convection oven.
• Let cool, and ENJOY!

Here are a few photos of my recipe.

I’ve Got a Drinking Problem!

Have you ever had one of those days where you just had no idea what you wanted to post on your blog?  Well I’m having one of those days.  I’m not feeling very inspired.   I’ve got my iced latte beside me and I took a drink from my straw and got an “ahhh” moment.   You’ve seen my first and chosen addiction chocolate and today you get to see my other addiction, coffee.  Actually, I usually only have an iced latte in the morning, but ………

My Iced Latte. I usually have one in the mornings! Made with organic coffee and whole milk.

I always have my filtered water sitting besides me.

OK now I’m getting a little carried away. The cup in the middle is an old “latte” cup from my favorite place to get coffee.

Showing off my coffee cups… I actually use these as little trash cans. They work great for little bits of trash.

As you can see my pug, Shadow, was really impressed with me taking photos of my coffee and water.

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Theme Tuesday – Gourds

Since it’s close to Thanksgiving in the USA, I thought thought I would show off some of Oregon home grown gourds.  Hope you ENJOY the show!

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Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. Thanksgiving is now of our major holidays of the year. Together with Halloween, Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.

The event that Americans commonly call the “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World.  The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 13 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.  The feast consisted of fish and shellfish, wild fowl, venison, berries and fruit, vegetables, and harvest grains.  The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating “thanksgivings”—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

To read more Information see  Thanksgiving US Wikipedia.

Blessings and hugs

Cee

My Drive By Shooting!

Chris and I had a blast.  First, we started out at a local hangout call The Place to Be Cafe.   Where we stopped to get some interior photographs and a latte and snack.  Okay, Chris had a small Chai, since she doesn’t drink coffee.  The photograph below is a gluten-free pumpkin cheesecake bar with Chris’s iPad keyboard displayed.

This next photograph I took again inside The Place to Be Cafe.  I just liked the display

Decadent Chocolate Anyone!!!

Did you ever have a day when the photographs you dreamed of taking just had no pizzazz?  That’s what happened to me last night when I made some decadent home-made chocolates.    I love my chocolate, I thought I would take yummy photographs, while I was in the process of making.  Wrong.  I will post a couple of the better ones.  I figured it’s just good practice to take photographs of everything.  Keeps my eye sharp and my creativity flowing.

Now to the chocolates.  I made three different types.  Chris only likes white chocolate, so here is what I made for her.   First I roasted some unsweetened organic coconut and added chopped roasted peanuts.  I think this makes for a cool abstract photograph.

Then I melted some premium white chocolate from Wilton with some extra crunchy peanut butter.  I did add very little milk chocolate to cut some of the sweetness of the white chocolate.  Then I captured this photo of the melting chocolate.  Again, I think one turned out cool in an abstract kind of way.

I’m Officially Blown Away

This morning I went out on what I call a “drive by shooting”.  Stay in the car and see what I can photograph.  I brought my new Lumix FZ100 and I’m impressed …. hopefully you will be too.  I’ve also put some other images I captured on my Redbubble site  so if you want to see more images.