Poached Egg In A Tomato

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P1050612Saturday evening, I was home alone. My family was out doing their own thing. I didn’t want to make a large amount of food nor a big mess for supper. I thought about several foods and then I remembered my blogging buddy Sheryl posted a delicious looking  ‘Poached Egg In A Tomato’  recipe on her blog. I went to her blog and followed her easy directions and recipe.
I’m quite pleased with the results. I love that a hundred years ago this simple dish was made and enjoyed. Thank you Sheryl for sharing the recipe. It was a mighty tasty supper for me. 🙂

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*To cover the ramkin, I didn’t have parchment paper per se, what I do have is a pan liner  that’s parchment on one side and aluminum foil on the other. It’s super slick and worked just fine.

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Frame

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Frame~

“Use your surroundings to capture a different point of view.”
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 Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!

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Chocolate Ice Cream Bread

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chocolatebread1Well, here it is ‘Chocolate Ice Cream Bread’.
It tastes like a cross between a brownie and a chocolate cake.
chocolatebread2I’m happy that I’ve tried all 3 flavors in the Neapolitan ice cream.
It’s an easy recipe and bakes up beautifully.

Wishing you all fun with creative cooking.

 

*I used a small batter made like my basic ‘Boiled Custard Bread’ recipe.
Use melted ice cream instead of boiled custard.
Add flour a little at a time to the melted ice cream until the batter is a creamy consistency.
If you get the batter too thick, thin it with a little bit of water.

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Strawberry Ice Cream Bread

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P1050425Well, it was bound to happen, that’s right, I made ‘Strawberry Ice Cream Bread’. One can only bake around with vanilla ice cream or custard for so long before the other flavors become too tempting not to try too.

I had been playing with the idea to use strawberry or chocolate ice cream to make some ice cream bread. I mentioned it to my supportive & wonderful husband and he went out and brought home a gallon of neopolitan ice cream.

P1050416I made a small loaf of strawberry ice cream bread. I’m so amazed how this bread can rise so lovely and come out of the pan without sticking. The strawberry bread has great texture and wonderful taste. I love the pretty color too.

This was such fun to try. Now next up is chocolate. I hope it does as well. I’ll let you know.

Happy creating!

 

*I used a small batter made like my basic ‘Boiled Custard Bread’ recipe.
Use melted ice cream instead of boiled custard.
Add flour a little at a time to the melted ice cream until the batter is a creamy consistency.
If you get the batter too thick, thin it with a little bit of water.

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Rare – Skookum Doll

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Rare~

P1050186My husband inherited a cedar chest and amongst the few things left in the chest was this doll. I didn’t know anything about the dolls before this one. This is a Skookum doll. We don’t know who bought it nor when. It may be over 70 or 80 years old.

This Skookum Doll is 11 1/2 inches tall.
He has a banner that says ‘Painted Desert Park, Ariz.’
His legs are squared wooden dowels.
His shoes and leggings are felt.
He wears a headband.
He has a folded blanket wrapped around him so that it looks like he has folded arms.

*The Skookum Dolls aren’t authentic Native American Dolls. They were first made by a woman named Mary McAboy in 1913 and were produced until the 1960’s. The first ones she made she carved the heads out of apples. There was a problem with shelf life of the dolls. When they became popular as souvenirs, she teamed up with a manufacturer and started making the heads out of composition or plastic.

 Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!

Here’s a couple of links for further reading:
Skookum dolls http://www.skookumdolls.com/

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