Fall Activities

 

                     These lovelies are Pumpkin waffles! We had these to boost our stamina for the day ahead, which you are going to go through now without such a delicious kickoff. "Oh well"



                       After the waffles our whole gang (Brothers, sisters, a cousin, our grandpa, and a token honorary brother.) piled into multiple cars and zoomed off. We walked around looking at things and roasting hot dogs and marshmallows at a bonfire. Here we're picking out our pumpkins.

                        Here we're taking a picture with Sammy. She's the managers daughter and super sweet. She never forgets to say hi to us.

                       We came home and the next day carved them mine said "Pow" with a bubble around it. Sadly this computer doesn't have a picture on it. 

                        Later on I made these baked apples. Just butter, cinnamon  sugar, and apples. They seemed very Fall-esque and tasted marvelous! Glücklicher Fall und freuen Sie sich Thanksgiving!

Oktober Fest, and other things

                  My goodness so much has happened since I last blogged! I'll try and show you as much as my patience dictates. First Cheese and Bacon Quiche.



                     I made this beauty out of my new cookbook Comfort Food. I didn't exactly follow the recipe (more cheese less onions) But I think it turned out quite delicious. Not sure if you can tell cause it's such bad quality but trying to be fancy I, put little leaves on the crust.

                      These were my very sad slightly failed blueberry pancakes. They tasted alright but looked green. I call them pancakes from outer space (don't use frozen berries). Everyone was very nice and they really did taste good but you should have seen what they were surposed to look like!

                       Ryan and Fanny made these in their cooking class. Cheese, blueberry, raspberry, and lemon danishes. They tasted like heaven will! We heated them up just a bit and then they just melted in your mouth like buttery/buttermilk goodness. Everything you see in them was made from scratch too.

                    And now for the best part. On Saturday Carolyn and I went on a Oktoberfest picnic! We took spekulatius, (little ginger bread cookies) strudel, schnitzel, and pumpkin cider. We sat on a small stage in a park and watched the sun go down while attempting to read out loud in German. It was wonderful and turns out we were doing the picnic on the original Oktoberfest day! Did you do something for it? Also if you want to see our Chez Elle day check it out here.

Lately...

                            So lately I have been cooking, nothing special but very tasty nonetheless. Basically what this is, is homemade polenta with cheese, sausage, and bacon on the top. It's a very hearty and meat to the bones type meal great for Winter, and real quick.

                            Today we went to Half Price Books and I got a new cook book called comfort food. It's jam packed with recipes that make you want to curl up surrender to your (becoming more prominent) muffin-top. Mine of course, I'm sure that none of you have any! Also be on the look out for these, hopefully coming soon... Cronuts, and Homemade blueberry pancakes! 

 

                           And coming soon my broseph's wedding to a absolutely amazing girl. Quite the fun day, and I can't wait to show you all. Well that's all for now folks, and I want to end by saying don't you just hate it when your chewing mint gum and super thirsty, but then you realize that it'll burn real bad if you drink water? Haha auf wiedersehen und willkommen herbst

Bubble Tea

                             So on Sunday instead of buying bubble tea we decided to whip out our old Almond Bubble Tea recipe. As always it wasn't a disappointment. If you haven't ever had bubble tea beware, I'm not sure if anyone I know has ever had it and liked before the second time. You see it's delicious but really weird. Because when you take a drink these chewy squishy things come up too, there tasty but hard to get used to. Like I always say it's yummy and easy, here it is.

 Almond Bubble tea

1 T. Lipton instant iced tea

2 T. Poma Almond powder

3 T. powdered French vanilla creamer

1 1/2 cups Wu Fu Yuan tapioca Pearl

                             So for the almond powder and pearls you can get them at a Asian grocery store. First, start a small saucepan half way up with water to boil. Now mix those measurements individually in each cup then set aside. (So one Tablespoon of Lipton in each cup) When the water has come to a rolling boil put the bubbles into the water, when it has come back to a rolling boil set a timer for five minutes stirring occasionally. While waiting get a half cup of water and a quarter cup of both brown and white sugar mix and microwave until it becomes like a syrup. Drain bubbles but save the hot water. Put the bubbles into the syrup. Put a half cup of the water into the cup and stir until everything dissolves. Fill them the rest of the way up with ice, divide the bubbles into the cups and enjoy! You'll probably need pearl straws too.

-Serves six

Happy Birthday Julia Child!

                       So on August 15th Julia's birthday, I made a spice cake with apples, white chocolate chips and cream cheese frosting on top! We dressed up like Simone Beck (Carolyn) and Julia Child (me). Then went to multiple libraries looking for Julie and Julia dressed in heels and skirts/a dress. We did eventually find it and proceeded to watch it. But only after listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole to get into the right spirit. Overall a wonderful night and I suggest if you didn't this year you should celebrate it next year. And now I think I might just finish My Life In France. Anyways that's all for now, Bon Appetit!

My Life Lately

 

                       So this is about what's been going on. The top five was a little get together that I had with some friends. (we call it Camp Russell) As you can tell it included;

                             Peaches from a local peach stand + Scones with milk while watching
                             leave it to beaver + The Importance of Being Ernest + Andre's
                             Confiserie Suisse, were we had delicious pastries and pies as
                             the fourth and fifth suggest + H+M, Anthropologie, and J. Crew
                             + To finish it all off we went to The Sound of Music on a outdoor
                             stage
                     
                     The rest are our delightfully fresh meals lately. BLTs are one of my favourite meals, I mean Bacon, lettuce, and fresh tomatoes! Then tonight my dad made us Lettuce Wraps. Which were surprisingly good. Well that's about it. Natürlich frische Sachen ist immer am besten im Sommer

The 4th of July

Me failing at American Gothic.

                So up above is Ryan and Fanny making peach pie for the 4th. I had a really great 4th of July it included; Mainly searching for horses on minecraft, also being entertained by Ben, Swimming, making a awesome Disney play list and listening to it all day, and little pop-its! (the world is not right when you can't even stuff up on the 4th) How was your 4th?  

                The minecraft cake I made for my brother, and the party he was having. Actually not that hard, just yellow cake in a square with white frosting! I personally thought it tasted real good. Sadly I didn't get to go to the party because I was out in Lawrence night swimming still fun.

                 And today we had some super adorable little kids over. You can't see Mary in this picture which I apologize for but oh well. So now your all caught up on my life, Glückliche schwimmen.