100% Whole Grain Biscuits

I just love this recipe. My little gems just scarf them up before school and then when they return home they are always eager to have one of the morning leftovers.

Whole Grain Biscuits

6 C Whole Wheat Flour

1 C Butter

5 TBL Baking Powder

3 Tsp Salt

Combine in mixer and mix until butter is evenly distributed. The recipe can be stored in the refrigerater for up to 2 weeks. To make biscuits, 1 cup of mix will make about 3 biscuits. Add milk to make the desired consistency. More milk will make drop biscuits, less will make rolled. I prefer rolled. Press out dough and fold it over; this will make them split evenly. Press out again until dough is about 1.5 inches or so. Cut biscuits with a cutter or glass. Place on baking sheet and bake at 425 degrees for about 14 minutes. Copyright 2009

Berry Beautiful

One of Heavenly Father's gifts to us is fruit in its season. My favorite are the succulent bright green of the kiwi, the mandarine and the pomegranate in winter, and the nectarine, watermelon and especially the blackberry of summer. The stained little lips of neices, nephews, grandchilren and children while picking the summer black berry must be our thank you back to Heavenly Father. Yesterday we spent the day picking at a friend's berry farm. It is a family tradition that we have done for years. What does not make it into the mouth's of our little ones while picking gets brought home. At home we make Berry Freezer Jam, and Berry Crisps. The rest gets frozen so that we can enjoy their sweetness all year a-top our cereals, in shakes and in my favorite Whole Grain Black Berry Muffins!!

Yummm...Yogurt Dill Potato Salad

I wanted to make a nice potato salad for my daughters Birthday. She does not like onions, which by the book can prove to be challenging in the potato salad world. I'm not really a by-the-book-cook so here is what I came up with.


Yogurt Dill Potato Salad

Love
8-12 New Potatoes quartered, cooked, cooled and diced.
1 1/2 C Plain Yogurt
1/8 C Cider Vinegar
2 TBL Sugar
2 TBL Olive Oil
Dash of Salt
Dash of Pepper
1/2 Red Bell Pepper Diced
1/2 English Cucumber Diced
1/2 C Fresh Dill



Combine all ingredients add more love or dill if necessary and toss over cooled potatoes. Refrigerate overnight and serve cold. Nice summer salad. Enjoy

In a Cloud

I am in a cloud of dust that billows around me as I stand above my garbage tote attempting to empty my environmentally correct bagless vacuum canister and its accompanying hepa filter into the tote. The cloud of home dust, dog dander and animal fur that was once deposited in my carpet is now redeposited in the depth of my sinuses. This entire weekly ritual leaves me in somewhat of a dusty dichotomy. You see I understand that the canister replaces the bag which serves to save our environment because I reuse it. The hepa filter provides dust free vacuuming by preventing the dust from spilling out into my home. However I am completely dust free when I exit my house to empty the canister and when I return I am coughing, sneezing, wheezing and dust is deposited into every facial oriface I have.

The oxymoronic chasm broadens when I am notified by my disposal service that I must empty vacumm contents into a bag that is then securley taped closed to prevent leakage into the tote. Can you blame them? The disposal sorters and handlers do not want to breath all of that home dust either. So I am asking, where is the the old fashioned vacuum complete with disposable bag? I could use it completely guilt free because it all ends up in a bag anyway....and loose the filter...I don't want to clean it. Do you?