Putting Strawberry Bread to the test

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It’s 50° this gray dreary rainy Tuesday. I have chicken stroganoff in the slow cooker cooking for supper and I just made a fresh loaf of Strawberry Bread.

I’ve been wanting to do a test at baking using some the foodstuffs we’ve switched too and this Strawberry Bread was the perfect recipe to try them on. First I had to half the recipe. Why do folks create such big recipes? Anyway, Plain flour, baking soda and cinnamon were the only original ingredients from the recipe that I used. For the rest I replaced them with olive oil, egg maker (liquid eggs), mix of sugar/splenda, lite salt. The batter was so thick that I added some 1% milk and I then added a bit of vanilla for good measure. lol So really I made a new recipe today. I like that.
The finished bread smells wonderful, looks nice and tastes really good to me. I’m really happy with my success of this bread. I hope my hubby likes it too. If my hubby likes it, I’ll put the recipe in my keeper folder for future use.

I hope your test recipes turn out successful and
your homes are filled with aroma of home-cooking.

Wishing you a pleasant rest of the day.

🙂

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I’m happy to say that my husband loved my Strawberry Bread and even carried a couple slices to work in his lunch today. 🙂
I’m so happy, I have another recipe to make from time to time. I just love it when my recipes turn out well.

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Happy Groundhog Day 2014!

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2-4-2014- There’s a couple of them furry pampered varmints that saw their shadows… but since there wasn’t a ray of sunshine to be found in our neck of the woods, we’ve decided that our resident groundhogs couldn’t possibly of seen their shadows and so we’re going to pray for have early warm weather anyway. 🙂

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Happy Groundhog Day!
Wishing you all an Early Spring
Regardless of what the critter
for your region says!

When You’re Feelin’
Like Ya Just Can’t Win,
It’s Time Then,
To,
Lift Up Your Chin,
Crack A Grin,
And Dance With My
GroundHog Friends.

dms 2-01

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February Wreath

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IMG_7229My ‘Wreath of the Month‘ for February,
is dressed up in traditional hearts and flowers
in red, pink and white in honor of Valentine’s Day.

Here’s wishing you all a wonderful February
filled with happiness and smiles.

Happy Early Valentine’s Day to you all.

🙂

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My February wreath, pictured at the top of this post, is made with Red Heart yarn on a Knifty Knitter cord loom and some flower looms that I don’t know what their brand is.
As extra decor, I crocheted the rose and the hearts.

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Related posts:
January Wreath

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Here’s why I’m making a ‘Wreath of the Month’ for every month of 2014.
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New Tube Scarf & new method for finishing the ends

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IMG_7178This my new tube scarf that I’ve been working on for the past couple of days. I finished it last night.

It’s called a tube scarf because it’s made like one long tube.0128140807a

My scarf is about 3 inches wide
about 60 inches long
two strands of yarn – warm brown & buff
e stitch
Martha Stewart loom – 18 pink pegs-spacedIMG_7185

I enjoy making tube scarves, but I’m not a fan of the way the ends sometimes look. The ends either roll or have an edging from doing a series of garter stitches to keep the edges from rolling.
I liked the garter stitch edge, but I wanted something a bit different. I couldn’t think of any thing until I surfed across ‘Sheepishly Sharing‘ blog. The blog owner is Margaret. She has a Addi Express knitting machine. It’s an amazing machine that looks like it does loom knitting faster than using hand looms. I dream of someday having one of the wonderful machines.

Margaret has a video posted that she made called ‘Getting Clean, Straight Edges on a Knitted Tube Scarf’. She has figured out a very clever way to keep the ends nice and crisp.

Since my tube scarf is made on a handheld knitting loom, I used her idea as a springboard and did my scarf a little different than the method she created.
*On the start end when the scarf was about 12 inches long. I unraveled the cast-on rows and then crocheted the tube sides together to make it flat.
*When my scarf was the length I wanted I took a darning needle and wove it in and out of the loops on the pegs and carefully removed the loops without pulling the thread anymore than I had too. When the scarf was off the loom, I crocheted the tube sides together to make it flat.
*I finished the scarf ends with few rows of Crocheted Fence Stitch and to give it a bit of lacy look.

Thanks Margaret for sharing your idea. You helped me to learn a new method to use to make loom knitting more enjoyable. 🙂

I love m new scarf. I think the ends make it look pretty. It’s really cold here, so I’ll be putting it to use here pretty quick.

If you all get a chance go and visit Margaret’s blog, she has lots of pretty and fun stuff to see and do.

Wishing everyone a creative and
pleasant rest of the week.
🙂

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