Preparing Food for the Winter

Autumn is the season for preparing and getting ready for Winter.  So, we have been canning so much lately.  First we did sweet and sour pickles.  They were so good that my family ate a whole jar in about two hours!!! My mom actually but them in the freezer instead of canning them.  But they were really good!!

 Then Mom and Kelle made peach jam with out sugar!! It took them all night to do it.  I was the photographer. =] 

Last Thursday, My brother-in-law and my Dad climbed our apple tree and they picked so many apples. They were lowering the baskets and I was emptying the apples and sending them right back up! They must have picked about 50 pounds of apples!  So I made apple crisp and then Mom and I canned apple sauce.  One of our batches of apple sauce was tinted pink because the skin was so red!!

 

 I made Chocolate Chip cookies for my Dad and I think this is my best recipe for cookies!! I will defenetly make these again! 

Joyfully in Him,

     Diana<3

What a Nice Autumn Day!

This is the first day that it has 60 degrees outside! That is definitely a sure sigh that Autumn is on it's way!! Don't you just love the season Autumn?  It makes me think of sweaters and fuzzy socks.  And hot chocolate, and raking leaves. "sigh"

Today, we harvested our Macintosh apples from our tree in the backyard.  This was our best year! We got so many apples!  Dad and I picked about three bushels and it looks like we didn't even dent our tree!!
I had a lot of fun taking pictures of them all!! =]

 Picking from the comforts of my own home! (otherwise known as the bedroom window) 

 We picked a lot of carrots but this year they were really little.  

Joyfully in Him,
  Diana<3

Mini Chocolate Chip Turtle Cookies

There is nothing like the feeling of baking on a rainy day in October. =] Dad and Adam requested me to make them some cookies. So I made them some Mini Chocolate Chip Turtle Cookies. ( whew!! what a long name!!) They are really easy

Mini Chocolate Chip Turtle Cookies

Ingrediants

1/2 cup of unsalted butter

1 3/4 cup of all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup of lightly packed brown sugar

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup of mini chocolate chips

1/2 cup of finely chopped pecans, toasted

Melted caramal, for drizzling

Directions

Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat; cook for 3-4 minutes, stiring frequently, until butter browns and starts to foam. Remove from heat to cool. In a medium mixing bowl, sift together melted flour, baking soda, and salt. In a large mixing bowl, using a mixer on medium speed, beat together melted browned butter, brown sugar, and granulated suger until creamy -- about 1-2 minutes. Beat in egg in vanilla until combined. Reduce mixer speed to low and gradually beat in flour until just combined; stir in chocolate chips and pecans until combined. Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat cookie sheets with a cooking spray. Roll dough into balls (about 2 teaspoons per ball), place on cookie sheets, and flatten using the palms of your hands. Bake 8 minuets ot until set and light golden. Cool on wire racks. Drizzle with melted caramel.

Joyfully in Him,

   Diana<3

Cozy Wintery Fire

What a perfect thing for a cold snowy day! (except that it hasn't snowed yet!)

Raking Leaves Day!!

Hurray!!!  It's time to rake the leaves!! There were so many leaves I thought I would never get done!! But the next day there was strong winds and all kind of leaves fell on the ground and I had to rake again!!

My Garden Part 4

This is the last post about my garden.  I finally got the time to harvest my herbs.  I was kind of sad pulling up all the herbs as I thought about when I first started my garden!!!  After I cut the herbs out of my garden, I hung them up to dry!!!

 Before

 After

Bountiful Harvest

Hurray!!!! It's Autumn!!!!! That means it time for pealing apples and making apple sauce!!!

 Sieve for applesauce!

 Apple cores!

 Fresh Raspberries.

 Sour Crab apples.

Happy Autumn!

 

*Photo credit: Diana Anne