18 October 2011

Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #7...........

 Hello everyone.
Today is Tuesday and that means a new Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge.
Thank you everyone who joined in for my Muffins challenge.  It is now time to vote for the winner. Just click here to see how.
The new challenge’s theme is.............
Snazzy Snacks!!!!!!!
Any kind of snack, something sweet, or salty, whatever you can come up with - or your all time favourite snack. It can be anything small that you can eat with one hand - biscuits, slices, mini sandwiches, pies, tarts etc. 
The PRIZE for this challenge sponsored by my mother is the
Australian Women’s Weekly Snazzy Snacks recipe book!!
I will ship it anywhere in the world. This book is filled with quick and easy recipes...just the way snacks should be. These fabulous snack recipes are perfect for after school nibbles, a fast lunch or dinner on the run. Many of the recipes also double as delicious finger food for parties. All recipes are amazingly simple and quick to make and range from toasted sandwiches, quick fritters and spring rolls to spicy chicken wings, dips and simple eat-out-of-hand snacks such as trail mixes. If you want it, just read how it works here.
My example is Cucumber sandwiches!
To make 10 round cucumber sandwiches.
You need:
10 normal slices of bread
Round cookie puncher, about 8cm/3inch big 
A cucumber about 16cm/6inch long 
Soft Butter (for the bread)
About 1 ½  tablespoon coarse white salt. Fine salt will not work, it will be to salty.
Method:


 1 Cut 10 slices of bread.

2 Press the cookie puncher in the bread.

3 Press very hard and turn.



4 Butter the bead circles. Put aside.
5 Rinse the cucumber and cut lengthwise in half.


6 Take a spoon and carefully scrape out all the seeds.


7 It should look like this.
8 Thinly slice the halves crosswise.


9 Put the cucumber slices in a strainer and throw in the salt. 


10 Toss the slices, so they’re all covered with salt.

11 Squeeze small hands of the cucumber very hard in your fist to extract the liquid.


12 Squeeze till there is no more liquid when you press it. 



They do look a little wilted.
13 Arrange the cucumber halves on the bread circles 


Bon Appetite!
Now it’s your turn to show me your snacks. I can’t wait to see them.
How it works
-You can link-up using your blog or if you don’t have a blog, e-mail your entry to me.
-Create a post on your blog with the recipe and at least one picture of the finished product.
or
e-mail the recipe, with at least one picture of the finished product and I will enter your recipe in the challenge (remember to come back and check out your entry).
-One recipe per person/blog please.
-You are allowed to have help with your baking.
-Please use the blue frog below to enter. Be sure to add the link to your direct blog posting/recipe and not your whole blog as this makes it much easier to find your recipe. 
-Please comment on at least 3 other entries.
-Each recipe needs to be linked back to Heidi’s Crafts or has to have the button in the post.
-This is a fortnightly challenge, you have two weeks to enter.
-Entries need to be linked up by Monday the 31st of October for this Snazzy Snacks challenge.
-After the challenge has closed, I will announce the entries in a separate posting and you will be able to vote for your favourite recipe.
-You are all allowed to advertise anywhere you like for people to vote for you, on your blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
-I will have a personalized blinkie, specially for the Winner. As well as the PRIZE!! I ship anywhere in the World!
-Age doesn’t matter, from little girls to grandmas are welcome to enter!
-The aim of the challenge is to encourage mothers and grandmas with their girls to enjoy making food in the kitchen, to share recipes, find new ones and have lots of fun together!
Baking Greetings!





17 October 2011

Voting For Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge - Muffins!

Hello everyone. It’s time to vote for the winner of my Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge: Muffins!
 I had four entries and they are: 
Who baked yummy Apple, Date and Spice Muffins!

Who baked Wholemeal Cranberry Muffins, mmmmm........I love berries!

Who entered for the first time with baked mouth-watering Chocolate Cinnamon Muffins. I love new participants!  
And my mother Linnie
Who baked delicious Apple and Cinnamon Muffins!
Now one of you four will win the amazing Food Lovers’ Breads and Muffins recipe book.
Thank you so much for everyone who entered! I really hope to see you all for my next challenge which will be posted tomorrow! 
As you all know, you may ask as many people as you like to vote for you. 
To vote all you do is:
1 Go to the top of my blog,
2 Just under my blog header, on the right, is a voting poll with all the entries.
3 Next to each name is a little white circle
4 Click on the one next to the name of the entry you like best.
5 Then click on the button that says “vote”.
You have voted.
 Good luck everyone.....
Baking Greetings!

11 October 2011

The Winner Is.........

Hi everyone! It’s time to announce the winner of my Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge. The theme was Italian Food and I had a total of 3 entries
The winner was voted to be…..
Congratulations Sarah.

 You have won the Food Lover’s Pasta recipe book. 
Please will you claim you prize by e-mailing your postal address, so I can get your prize off to you.
I also made you a special winner blinkie:
All you have to do is right click, then click “save image as”.
Then you can proudly display your winner blinkie on the side of your blog with a link back to this post so that your blog readers can see that you won and also join in next time.
If anyone want to win a recipe book too or want a blinkie, all you do is enter my baking challenge. The current Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge is Muffins. You can win a Bread and Muffins recipe book! You have until Monday the 17th of October to enter.
Baking Greetings

07 October 2011

Birthday Card For My Dad And DT Card For Stampin For The Weekend.

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I had a very busy week so far! We are having friends staying in our home for a few days next week, so we gave our house a spring-clean. Yesterday my mother was washing the walls where my little brothers made a mess over the past few months, with their little dirty hands. As she came up from her knees she bumped her head against a cupboard, and there was blood everywhere! Luckily all of us children where there to help her and stopped the bleeding with in seconds with a herb from our garden, called Yarrow. We had to call my dad from work to help us close the wound  with Mazena (corn flour) and bandages. We never get stitches, as it makes a mark later. “Mazena” works best! We ordered my mother to stay in bed the rest of the day. (Something she really struggles to do!) We also washed the carpets on Tuesday and lots of de-cluttering over the week. A busy week, as you can see, cleaning our home and playing nurse! 

But now on to Card Making!! Today I would like to show you a birthday card I made for my dad for his birthday which was on the 1st of October. I also used it as a DT card for Stampin for the Weekend. 
The theme is..........
Autumn Colours!!
I’m starting to really like making masculine cards... what can you expect with 7 men in our home!

And using digi stamps! This is a digi stamp is from Meljens Designs called Beavers Blueprints and I colored him with the following Copics:
E37, E35, E33 and E53 - for the beaver’s skin/fur.
G17, G14 and G12 - for his hat 
R21 and E00 - for the hammer’s bottom part and for the piece of paper in his hand.
Y15, Y11 and Y00 - for the ruler
B05, B02 and B000 - for the screwdriver
W3 - for the shadow around the stamp.

I made a knot with two different ribbons and stuck it on the left side of the card. Also decorated it with a few brown pearls.
Please hop over to Stampin for the Weekend and see if you can take part in our challenge!

I would also like to take part in the following challenges with this card:
Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Happy Birthday 
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Distressing
Paper Play - Autumnal Colours
Southern Girls -  Boys or Men in your Live
Penny's Paper-Crafty -  anything goes
Truly Scrumptious -  distressing
Deep Ocean Challenge - Happy Birthday
Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes

Have a blessed weekend and please keep my mother in your prayers!
Crafty Greetings 

04 October 2011

Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge #6...........

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well.

 It is time for a new Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge! If you haven’t voted for your favorite Italian Food recipe, from the last challenge, please take a few moments to vote here.
Now the theme for this fortnight’s challenge is...............
Muffins!!!!!
Any kind of muffins, big ones, small ones, sweet ones, salty one etc.
The PRIZE this fortnight is......

A Food Lovers’ Bread and Muffins recipe book!!!
So many delicious, simple recipes for everyday cooking. This stylish cookbook will help feed your passion by offering a collection of delicious recipes that are straightforward to prepare, doesn’t require hours in the kitchen, and are also a feast for the eyes. 
Whether you are making a meal for two or entertaining to impress, you will love using these exiting recipes, and see great results every time!
To give you an idea of the kind of recipes, here are a few:
Red Onion Focaccia,
Malted Fruit Loaf,
Cherry Muffins with Crumble Topping,
Chocolate Brownie Muffins,
Orange Muffins with Chocolate Chips,
Apple and Cinnamon Muffins,
Carrot Bread,
Cranberry Bread,
Mozzarella and Tomato Muffins, 
Strawberry Buns,
Banana, Zucchini and Apricot Loaf, 
Lemon and Lime Loaf 
Cherry Cornbread,
Herb and Garlic Bread,
Papaya Muffins and many, many more wonderful recipes!!

 


My sample for this challenge is..........
Blueberry Muffins!!
Makes twelve normal size muffins. 
Ingredients:
½  cup butter, at room temperature, plus more for the muffin cups.
1 ¾  cups plus 2 tablespoons flour, plus more for the muffin cups.
1 teaspoon Baking Soda 
½  teaspoon Baking Powder
½  teaspoon Salt 
¾  cups granulated Sugar 
2 eggs 
½  cup sour cream 
¼  cup milk 
1 pint/2 cups blueberries (it’s not necessary for that much can only use one cup too)
Confectioners’ Sugar (optional)
Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C/ 350 degrees F. 
2 Unless you are using a nonstick pan, brush the muffin tins with butter and dust them with flour. 
3 In a bowl, whisk together the 1 ¾  cups flour, the baking soda, baking powder and salt.
4 In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar by hand or with a handheld mixer for bout 4 minutes in a stand mixer about 2 minutes, or until smooth. 
5 Add the eggs one by one waiting until the first egg is absorbed before adding the second.
6 Sift the dry ingredients over the butter-egg mixture, and stir in the sour cream and milk. 
7 Stir the mixture with a rubber spatula until all the liquid is absorbed and there is no loose flour in the bowl. Don’t overwork the mixture.
8 Toss the blueberries with 2 tablespoons flour and fold them into the batter.
9 Fill the cups of muffins tins three-quarters full with batter.
10 Bake for about 25 minutes, or until gold brown and a knife or toothpick stuck into one of the muffins comes out clean.
11 Turn out onto a cake rack and sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar (Optional). 

Served hot with butter, it’s delicious.
Now it’s your turn to show me your muffin recipe! I can’t wait to see with what you can come up with!
Rules:
-You can link-up using your blog or if you don’t have a blog, e-mail your entry to me.
-Create a post on your blog with the recipe and at least one picture of the finished product.
or
e-mail the recipe, with at least one picture of the finished product and I will enter your recipe in the challenge (remember to come back and check out your entry).
-One recipe per person/blog please.
-You are allowed to have help with your baking.
-Please use the blue frog below to enter. Be sure to add the link to your direct blog posting/recipe and not your whole blog as this makes it much easier to find your recipe. 
-Please comment on at least 3 other entries.
-Each recipe needs to be linked back to Heidi’s Crafts or has to have the button in the post.
-This is a fortnightly challenge, you have two weeks to enter.
-Entries need to be linked up by Monday the 17th of October for this Muffins challenge.
-After the challenge has closed, I will announce the entries in a separate posting and you will be able to vote for your favourite recipe.
-You are all allowed to advertise anywhere you like for people to vote for you, on your blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
-I will have a personalized blinkie, specially for the Winner. As well as the PRIZE!! I ship anywhere in the World!
-Age doesn’t matter, from little girls to grandmas are welcome to enter!
-The aim of the challenge is to encourage mothers and grandmas with their girls to enjoy making food in the kitchen, to share recipes, find new ones and have lots of fun together!
Baking Greetings!





03 October 2011

Time To Vote Again!!

Thats right, it’s time to vote for the winner of my Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge - Italian Food!

You can now vote for your favorite Italian Food recipe, the winner wins the Food Lovers Pasta recipe book.
I had 3 entries for this challenge and they are:
Who made mouth-watering Meat-Balls in Tomato Sauce.

Who cooked delicious “Spagette Bolognaise”
My mother! Linnie
Who made a amazing Lasagna!!
Thank you so much everyone for entering.
One of these 3 entries will win the Food Lovers Pasta recipe book.
Who will be the winner?? It’s up to you! Get as many people to vote for you as possible
All you have to do, to vote is:
1 Go to the top of my blog,
2 Just under my blog header, on the right, is a voting poll with all the entries.
3 Next to each name is a little white circle
4 Click on the one next to the name of the entry you like best.
5 Then click on the button that says “vote”.
You have voted.
 Good luck everyone. 
Baking Greetings!

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