Herbs they bring Joy!

Howdee!

Gardening & planting going on here slowly as we inch toward summer & growing season.

In today's mail I got herbal happy package, FedEx.

Mexican Oregano

I did include this is a previous posting

Mexican Oregano

A very nice smelling aroma on the plant, it arrived very healthy and packaged very nice with extreme care. 

I'll be planting this in the next few days or so as the temperatures rise to a more advantageous range for plants and growing.

~The Joy is in the making~ 

 

The Bread tray finale

Hello Happy Homebuddies!

A brief posting about the Filet Crochet Bread Project.

I'm calling if finished from beginning to end! Very happy with the results, but what I wanted to show is how I decided to display it. 

This is the tray which I ordered from Ebay, I took a picture of it, but it kept coming out blurry?

It is made of wood and rattan. A very nice vintage piece.

Filet Crochet Bread Tray Post

I did re do the scallop edge to make it less ruffly an bulky. It is a little less so, it needs a pressing not to stretch the fabric, but to tamp it down some.

This will be for display and not functional. 

~ The joy is in the making~ 

 

Filet Crochet 47 rows in

64 more to be done.

 Coming along nicely, only had to frog a row or two because my count was off. Overall I am pleased, having something to keep my hands and mind busy.

~ The joy is in the making~

Happy Homebody Monday #8 Save your Scraps

Happy Homebody Monday!

Darling little sheep in the pasture/Amish 
Look at that sky, fresh air and wide open space.

Our weather feels more like fall then spring, some serious rain and cloud cover for several days. I've got a nice full rain barrel for those days when no rain is in sight. 

On Saturday we had a short excursion out of the cement city, and out to where my soul is the happiest the country.  Our destination was to visit a nursery. This one in particular is 100 years old, there are only plants and greenhouses, no gift shop. Just greenhouses 10 of them to meander through. 

Since it was raining all day, I put up some bean soup. I soaked some beans, and used the ham broth I made from the Easter ham, took some scrap vegatables out of the freezer to add flavor and nutrition to the broth. 

Do you keep your vegatable scraps/ends to make broth?  

When I cut fresh vegatables, I keep the ends and scraps pop them in a freezer bag. This makes a fine vegatable broth filled with nutrition, takes very little time and worth it every time.

I decided to make overnight sourdough bread. 

I have 2 receipes, one works every time and has no sourdough in it to begin with. The other is more labor intensive and doesn't always come out well. I opted for the one which works every time, with a moderation, instead of using yeast, I used sourdough starter. 

It's been in a cold oven with the light on for about 12 hours, it has risen but as the nature of the sourdough not alot. 

I'll be baking it up a little later, closer to suppertime. A nice pot of bean and ham soup with some "hopefully" crusty bread.  

~ The joy is in the making ~