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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

New Cookie Recipe!

A young lady who is a friend of mine on FB posted this yummy recipe

Thought I'd share it (even though I haven't had a chance to make it yet) :)

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

Makes 2-3 dozen

Ingredients:
½ cups butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 whole egg
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
¼ teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoons baking powder
⅛ teaspoons baking soda
1-½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cups powdered sugar
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease light colored baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Whip in vanilla, egg, lemon zest, and juice. Scrape sides and mix again. Stir in all dry ingredients slowly until just combined, excluding the powdered sugar. Scrape sides of bowl and mix again briefly. Pour powdered sugar onto a large plate. Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough.
Bake for 9-11 minutes or until bottoms begin to barely brown and cookies look matte {not melty or shiny}. Remove from oven and cool cookies about 3 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
*If using a non-stick darker baking tray, reduce baking time by about 2 minutes.

Let me know if you try it! Enjoy!

Friday, February 1, 2013

Birdseed Bandit

Remember this little feeder Bri and I made?

Well...a little bandit came shortly after we hung it and

helped his greedy little self to it!

He finds it and starts to eat...

Then, if you look, you can see his little "hands" on it--he bit the string

and took off with it!

He got it on the ground and the rest is history!

Sorry the quality of these isn't good--I was taking it through the kitchen window,

and the sun was bright and there was a

reflection off the plants on the window.

It was the only vantage point I had though :)

For the Birds...

It has been many years since we made pinecone feeders for the birds, and

Bri and I decided it was high time to do it again! :)

We got some yarn, gathered some pinecones, bought some peanut butter,

dug into our bag of seed in the garage, and we were ready!

It was a little messy, but alot of fun!

Bri shows her technique

We hung them all around the yard, this one is being hung in our pinetree in

the front yard.

We tried to position them so that we can see them from the window

This one is outside our kitchen window

This one in the butterfly bush is visible from the kitchen as well

We didn't have to wait too long until we had some "customers"

This morning we woke up to a "surprise snow"

and the birds were already at the new feeders

The blackbirds swept into the other feeders in droves!

It was lots of fun--we love feeding and watching the birds!

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Matthew 6:26