My Cinnamon Rolls

 Thanks to getting the perfect recipe (comparable to Cinnabon) from my sister, I made these moist and delicious cinnamon rolls recently.  This will be my 'go to' recipe for cinnamon rolls.

I leave some without icing, they taste just as good without in my opinion and save on eating all that sugar.

Cheese and Onion Muffins

 I made these cheese and onion muffins based on a recipe Gloria of Canela Kitchen shared recently.

I didn't have chives that Gloria used but I did have a packet of dried chopped onions.  The 2nd photo shows the muffin with a slice of bacon inside.

makes 12 muffins

2 1/2c self rising flour  (1 1/4 tbs baking powder

1/2 tsp salt)

1/2c parmesan

1 tbs dried chives (or use dried chopped onion)

2 eggs

1 c milk

pre heat oven to 350F   (I did 300F in my hot oven)

grease muffin tray

(I found that liners stick in this recipe)

In a large bowl, mix salt, cheese and onions in  a large bowl

whisk milk and eggs

add these to the dry ingredients

spoon into greased muffin tray

bake 20 min.  

Note I baked at 300F in my hot oven for approx 15 mins)

No Hard Feelings

This is one of my sunflowers from seed, the photos taken on September 3rd last week. It was just about to open! 

Here is the sunflower on September 8th!

And here it was the next day!

And then the next morning it seems someone had come by and clipped the bloom off,  Luckily I had taken the photo in its short glory.  It left us with an awful feeling, what to do?  Then I noticed the bright yellow petals scattered on the ground on the neighbour's driveway, the seed pod missing.  As my sister suspected, we think it is the animals.  Squirrels abound and I can just imagine one scurrying up the stake and taking a bite!  Everyone needs to eat I say, no hard feelings!

I noticed when the squirrel bit the head of the sunflower off, he seemed to know to take it just above the leaves, sort of like good pruning.  Nature is awesome.

Paint Party Friday - Rice Plant ACEO

 For Paint Party Friday I did a flowering rice plant ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") on green cardstock.  I was inspired by a post Rough Terrain Crane did on rice recently.  Do you know rice is in the grass family, I never even thought about it.

Rain's Thursday Art Date - Eyes and Ears

 

Welcome to Rain'sThursday Art Date.  The theme is 'eyes and ears'.  I did an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") in alcohol inks.

A cute card

 A couple of daughter L's best friends gave her this card with chocolates to celebrate her recent engagement.  Isn't the card cute?

Chinese Okra

 My neighbours next door gave us these Chinese Okra from their garden recently.  They are quite long, maybe 18 inches.

The Chinese name is 'si gua', also known in English as 'luffa'.  It cooked up very quickly, simmered in chunks for about a minute and is very mild tasting.  The skin has to be peeled off.

The neighbours are so nice, they have given us some very tender Japanese eggplant and also some tomatoes.