Java. the end.

[ohiofarmgirl]

ohmigosh! look at beautiful your kitchen is!!!! WOW!

and no i dont think its messy.. ha! i think i might have found the pig heads behind my toaster... (just kidding)

love your cupboards.. the color reminds me of my kitchen when i lived on the left coast... lovely!

and ha!

we have the same dish washing soap, kitchen sink hand soap, and same rubber gloves!

but you dont have 90 cats crawling all over everything. (Nicholas!)

yikes.. i gotta take the puppy out

hugs!

ps how fun to chase you!! hee hee hee!

 

[FarmerDenise]

Ok, all this chick hatching talk has got to stop. We are not hatching chicks, we are not hatching chicks!!!
wouldn't you know it, the good neighbor gave us his DD's incubator. He has been cleaning his house (think: hoarder x 3 people) He wanted his bathroom space back. It ws sitting on the counter where his DD (the one who died recently) had set it up last summer. So now I have an incubator .........
I have more than enough chickens, but those little chicks are so cute and I want more chickens that lay different color eggs than light shades of brown...... maybe I could hatch my own meaties

 

[Javamama]

I'm not hatching chicks I think I need to make sure these goat kids hatch before I think about more chicks

I still can't find that recipe card
So, I'm going to quickly reconstruct it from memory here before I forget. I have to preface this by saying I thrown everything in the bread machine on the dough cycle to mix and rise, then I pull it out and shape it and put in pans for final rise. This is 2 loaves.

Wet ingredients:
1 cup milk
1 cup water
1/2 cup honey
3 Tb. butter

Heat above ingredients to 120 degrees.

Add 1 egg, but temper it into the wet ingredients so ya don't scramble it!

Dry ingredients: *I mess around with the flour percentages alot*

4 - 4.5 cups of whole wheat flour
2- 2.5 cups white flour
1Tb. salt
2 packets of yeast, or equivalent amount
I usually add some vital gluten, especially for a higher amount of whole wheat

So then mix, knead, rise, shape, pan, rise, bake. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes, turn down to 350 and bake another 30-35 minutes. I think. Yeah, that sounds right.

 

[savingdogs]

Your kitchen is so lovely and sunny, I'm green with jealousy. It looks so bright and roomy. I have this cramped little dark dank hallway kind of place to cook in now. I have hooks for everything so it works but looks funky. Yours look functional and fun.

 

[Javamama]

Don't be deceived by my kitchen photo - it's only light and bright today because of the snow outside. My house is very dark. It was worse before I painted it. All the trim and cabinets used to be ugly dark brown and the walls were a weird blue-ish white. Now if I could change the placement, it would be pretty good. Unfortunately, it's the throughway from the main part of the house to the outside and the bathroom :/ My stove and oven are opposite the window, so I constantly have people walking through the work triangle. Drives me crazy - and it's dangerous. It's not as functional as I'd like most days. It's a someday project

 

[savingdogs]

Well you picked a great color. I'm always amazed at how a coat of paint can help out a room.

 

[Javamama]

Painting this house was the best thing ever! I did the terra cotta in the kitchen and the rest of the house in a golden caramel-yellow shade. I LOVE it! And doing the trim in ivory was major too. It was sooo ugly before. I should post a before shot...
OK, this was before we bought the house - and that is my hubby and my sister. She's a realtor

And after

 

[savingdogs]

Beautiful! Is the curly haired person you? I have the same hair style.

 

[ksalvagno]

Looks so much better painted, that is for sure!

 

[Javamama]

That's my sister. I used to have curly hair like that. The curl relaxed after my last kid was born