Common Ground Coffee House #114

Hello, everyone!

The garden is nearly done for the year and my canning is nearly done as well. I have some tomatoes, grapes, and quince yet to finish up. What a great canning season it has been!

I sold my goat. She ended up being eaten. That made me sad----what a sappy girl I am!

The kiddos are really into chess these days. They're starting to give me a run for my money.

Hope y'all are well!

 

Definitely can them up! I love pears preserved in syrup. My recipes come from the Ball Book.

You can also make pear butter, pear sauce, or spiced pear jelly. Some people like pickled pears, but I'm not one of those people.

Or you can do what my kiddos would so and EAT as many as you want til they're all gone. LOL!

 

That sounds great!

I enjoy canning (especially pickles for some reason) the garden produce, but there is just something special about picking fruit from your own trees and preserving them. I would love to have a pear tree. As it stands now I have several cherry trees, a couple apple trees, several plum trees, a few walnut trees, one hazelnut tree, a quince tree, 2 mulberry trees, and a tree with red berries that I can't identify. I also have grape vines.

The best thing I ever bought for canning was a steamer/juicer. Seriously. I recommend it to everyone!

My cellar is full!

 

Spinach, my oldest wants us to get a juicer and I definitely agree with her! One thing a naturopathic friend recommended to me was juiced carrots, and since it was also recommended that I take tumeric, I would just add it to the juice, but had to buy it at a juice place...would be nice to make my own.

I LOVE pears! GIMME SOME! :tongue3:

 

Our apples are almost ready - I hope to be making apple butter again this year.

 

Be sure to bring some of that apple butter to the coffee house! :thumbs:

Today has been weird. I got up early to make cinnamon muffins for breakfast, then after the kids were off to school I got a call saying two of my students weren't going to show up for appointments so I had extra time! Got to have lunch with hubby, and got dinner ready to be warmed up later to make things go faster and smoother before church tonight.

Made some quick candy and am now waiting for the children to get back. That's always fun, as one gets done first, then about 20 minutes later two more finish, and about 20 minutes after than, two more are released. Three need rides and two don't. Three different schools.

There's nothing new or exciting enough to report as news, except the newspaper hasn't called me with any requests and I haven't come up with any great ideas to call them with, and I hope that one of us gets our act together soon so I can do some reporting! I MISS IT!

Hope y'all (see, I can talk like that for REAL now!) are doing okay and that some of the regulars pop on in with updates!

 

Gina, I would love the recipe for cinnamon muffins please :thumbs:

Rob has been busy painting the woodwork in the bathroom and gloss paint sets off my asthma so we are making a quick exit to McDonalds for breakfast. Unfortunately we Brits don't do breakfast the way it is done in the US, so McD's is the only place around here we can go for pancakes :wavey:

 

Good Morning Everybody,

Yeah, guess I better check in, hadn't I? We've been so busy lately that I just forgot about the Coffeehouse. Sorry about that.

Our Daughter and her Husband surprised us with the news that they are expecting their first child. This will be our 7th Grandchild.

I've been busy getting the yard ready for fall, and generally cleaning up around here.

I brought in Eggs, Pancakes, Bacon and Home Fried Potatoes for anybody who is interested.

Everybody had a great time while we were camping. It was a nice change of pace for a week.

School starts the day after Labor Day, and for once we're ready.

Time to get more work done. I promise I'll check in more often.

 

Welcome back Friend of God, it is good to see you posting again.

 

Following-Him, I use a basic recipe I got offline, with just a couple minor differences. Here it is!

2 C flour
3 tsp powder
salt
1/2 C sugar
1 egg
1 C milk
1/4 C veg oil
Cinnamon

Mix the dry stuff together. Beat the egg into the milk, then stir it into the dry stuff you already mixed.

I use about 1/2 tsp salt and just as much cinnamon as I want.

Pour it into greased and floured muffin tins...it should make about 12 medium size muffins. Fill them about 2/3 of the way full.

Then make topping for them by cutting about 5 and 1/2 tsps of butter into 3/4 C flour and then adding 1/2 cup of sugar. I add cinnamon to this too, but if you put a lot of cinnamon in the muffins, you don't have to add any. I just LOVE cinnamon. hehehe

Anyhoo, I add this crumbly topping...lots of it cuz I love that too. This means the muffin tins are filled, but not overflowing, just kinda straight across.

Then ya bake 'em...somewhere between 375 and 400 F, depending on how your oven works and what kind of pan you're using...if you need an absolute just go with 375. I'm not sure how long to tell you...just until they smell all yummy and they're springy to the touch but not overdone...if you stick a metal paring knife in the center of one and it comes out clean or almost all the way clean, they're done.

 

Thanks Gina :thumbs:
I will make the recipe for Rob as soon as he can eat again - he has just had a tooth out and had to have stitches so is quite uncomfortable. These muffins will be something for him to look forward to

 

This Baptist won't object!! Can you please share the recipe? Maybe all this talk about muffins is worthy of a new thread? :laugh:

 

Annsni, the recipe looks delicious. Just the kind of thing to take to a church bring and share! as well as making for when we have people round here. Many thanks! :flower:

 

Are you aware of one of the greatest inventions on this planet? It's a MUFFIN TOP PAN! You can make just the top with none of that irritating middle stuff in it. LOL

Now if they'd just make a pan that makes fried chicken without all that pesky meat...