Cheerios

Quite the flap over a breakfast cereal don't you think? The FDA is trying to wield it long arm and force General Mills to change their packaging. They claim to lower cholesteral and all...

What a fiasco. If the FDA really was concerned they'd have General Mills and the rest of the food production world actually use ingredients that we, as consumers, could trust to be healthy for our bodies.

They'd quit allowing large companies like Monsanto, ADM and Cargill and their lobbyists control congress and their own researchers. They'd actually have consumer health as their goal.

Instead, the FDA is only interested in headlines.

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Cake class

I'm teaching a beginning cake decorating class beginning Thursday. It's funny that s'mee and I both were asked to teach them. She got through hers, and I of course, put them off until now. It will be a basic class, then if the students wish to go on they'll have to get specific on what they want to learn.


Week 1 will cover the basics of baking, prepping and the ways to make frosting. I was going to have them bring a cake to work with that first week until one of the attendees wrote me and asked just how you use parchment paper when baking a cake.

Week 2 we will put into practice a bit of what we learned in week 1. We will fill, and crumb coat then frost the cake in a basic icing. We'll talk about smoothing, and a bit about decorative tips.

Week 3 we will use the tips to make differnt designs and cover questions from week 2's experimentation at home. Well talk about different ways cakes can be shaped and flavored.

Week 4 we will talk a bit about fondant. I have told them fondant is its own class, I will not be teaching how to cover a cake in fondant in this series. We will learn a few fondant decorations and flower making a bit.

All in all we should have a great time.

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Cake Spy's Grilled Cheese

Best thing to happen to grilled cheese ever! Cake Spy's Grilled Cheese Dessert

Some people are born amazing!

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My version of Chicken Run the movie

Not sure anyone else will be interested in this but for your viewing pleasure:

10 week old chickens enjoying the out of doors!

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Pioneer Woman's BBQ Meatballs

Meatballs. Wow. I cannot say anything more.

If you have not tried Pioneer Woman's BBQ Meatball recipe you need to. It will become a staple. And no one will ever complain if you make them every other night.

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Alltop

If you look at my sidebar, I have a button for My Alltop. What is that? It's a news reader. But it's not a regular news reader. It's better.

If you click on it you'll see my Alltop page. All top stands for All the top stories. It is a news aggregator that puts everything, I deem important, on one page for me to read at my leisure. I love it. I have not had time to post here regularly but I am reading. Go take a look for yourself, and then set up your own Alltop page. I'd love to see what you like to read!

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Chickens!

This is one of the Plymouth Rock chickens on top of the make-shift brooder. We built the pen for them yesterday. City farmers i tell ya! It would probably make a real farmer laugh just to look at it, but hey, this is the first time building a chicken pen. Soon there will be little hutches for all of them and a large coop. Yay. For now they are satisfied to be out doors and in the grass.



They have grown quite a bit since they joined us here!

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