Everything latley

Hi guys! I am so sorry I haven't written on this in so long! I feel so bad! I promised my Grandma Jenkins I would at least put out a recipe for her, so here's your recipe Grandma!

Glazed Cinnamon Almonds
1 egg white
Pinch of salt
1 1/2 pounds (about 3-3 1/2 cups) almonds
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Butter

In medium bowl, beat egg white and salt until soft peaks form. Pour the nuts into the bowl and stir to coat well. Combine the sugar and cinnamon, and sprinkle over the almonds. Mix well.

Turn the mixture out onto a buttered shallow baking pan, Like a jelly roll pan or cookie sheet, and spread the nuts evenly. Bake at 300 degrees, stirring occasionally, until crisp, about 45 min.



Ok I've come up with a great idea for my blog every Sunday or Monday I will write a menu a breakfast, lunch, and dinner and maybe a dessert, even if it sounds to me like its disgusting.

This weeks menu:

Breakfast: Berry-licious Pancakes
1 egg
1 cup all- purpose flour or whole wheat flour
3/4 cup milk
1 table spoon granulated sugar or packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon of salt

Your choice: 1/2 cup fresh or frozen ( thawed and well drained) blueberries or
1/2 cup fresh or frozen ( thawed and well drained) raspberries or
1/2 cup fresh or frozen ( thawed and well drained) blackberries

Cooking spray
Butter or margarine, if you like
Maple-flavored syrup, if you like
blueberries and raspberries, if you like

1. Crack the egg on the side of the bowl, letting egg slip into bowl. Beat with fork until egg looks foamy. Add the flour, milk, Granulated sugar, Vegetable oil, baking powder, and salt. Beat with fork until mixture is smooth. ( For thinner pancakes, stir in 1 to 2 tablespoons milk.) Stir the ( if you choose) Blueberries, Raspberries, or blackberries into the batter.

2. Spray the unheated griddle or electric skillet with the cooking spray. Heat griddle over medium heat, or electric skillet to 375 degrees F ( To test griddle or skillet, sprinkle with just a few drops of water. If bubbles jump around, Heat is just right.

3. For each pancake, pour about 1/4 cup of batter from the measuring cup onto hot griddle or skillet. Cook for about 2 minutes or until pancakes are puffy and dry around the edges. Turn pancake over, using the pancake turner. Cook for about 2 more minuets or until bottoms of pancakes are golden brown.

4. Serve pancakes with butter, maple-flavored syrup and berries, if you like.

Lunch is Join-the-Club Sandwiches
ingredients:
12 slices bread, toasted if you like
2 medium tomatoes, if you like
mayonnaise or salad dressing
1/3 cup bacon flavor bits or chips
8 lettuce leaves
3/4 pound sliced cooked turkey

Utensils:
toaster, if you like
paper towels
cutting board
sharp knife
table knife
Dry-ingredient measuring cups
measuring spoons
16 toothpicks

1. Toast the slices of bread, if you like. Wash the tomato's in cool water ( if you like.) Pat dry with the paper towels. Cut each tomato into 6 slices on the cutting board, using the sharp knife, if you like.

2.Spread mayonnaise evenly on 1 side of each bread slice, using the table knife. Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon of the bacon bits on top of each slice of bread.

3. Put 1 lettuce leaf and 3 slices of tomato on each of 4 slices of bread. Top each with another slice of bread, with bacon bits on top. Put some turkey on top of the bacon bits. Put another lettuce leaf on top of the turkey. Top each with a third slice of bread, this time with the bacon bits side down. From bottom to top, your sandwich should look like this: bread, mayonnaise, bacon bits, lettuce, 3 slices of tomato, bread, mayonnaise, bacon bits turkey, lettuce, bacon bits, mayonnaise, bread.

4. Cut each sandwich diagonally in half on the cutting board, with the sharp knife. Then cut these triangles in half again to make smaller triangles. Poke a toothpick in the center of each triangle to hold the sandwich together. Before eating make sure you remove the toothpicks!

Dinner: Mini meatloaves
ingredients:
1 small onion
1 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup plain dry bread crumbs
1/4 cup mink
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, if you like
1 egg

utensils:
Paper towel
Cutting board
Sharp knife
Dry ingredient measuring cup
Measuring spoons
Large mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Rectangular class baking dish (13 x 9 inch; 3 quart)
Ruler
Table knife
Meat thermometer
Pot holders
Pancake turner

1. Peel the outside layer of skin from the onion. Wash onion in cool water. Pat dry with the paper towel. Cut onion into very small pieces on the cutting board, using the sharp knife ( you need about 1/4 cup).

2. Heat the oven to 400 degrees F. Put the onion, ground beef, Bread crumbs, milk, salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce (if you like) in the bowl. Crack the egg on the side of the bowl, letting egg slip into bowl. Stir with wooden spoon until mixed.

3. Put the mixture into the baking dish. Shape mixture into 9 x 3-inch rectangle, using your hands ( use the ruler to measure). Cut mixture in half the long way, using table knife. Cut into 4 rows the short way. You should wind up with 8 meat loaves, Each about 2 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide. Separate loaves a little bit with knife.

4. Bake uncovered for 25 minutes. To check if meat loves are cooked, stick meat thermometer into one loaf in the center of dish. Watch the line until it stops moving. When the line stops at 165 degrees F, the loaves are done. if it doesn't go that high, bake loaves a little longer and test again with thermometer. Use the pot holders to take the dish out of oven- it will be hot and heavy. Use the pancake turner to carefully take loaves out of dish.

dinners calories for one serving is 280

lunch calories for 1 sandwich is 410

Breakfast calories for 3 pancakes 33o


ok and dessert is the cinnamon almonds so thanks and listen next week!

~shelby~

Updates

Hey, just some quick updates. Bailey's kinda walking and schools out for me and Gretchen. We are going sledding and yes it is 7:00 PM oh boy! So I am having a fun time at school we just did a "school sing" and The sixth grade sang " Silver Bells" and " 67 santa's" anyway.

I wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New year.


I'll post in a few days saying what santa brought me. >:) :) :D

Shelby

Christmas and Thanksgiving

Hey everyone, Did you have a good thanksgiving? I did. Gretchen didn't. Gretchen got to taste her thanksgiving dinner twice! Lucky her.


So Christmas is just around the corner and before you know it its here. Here is a short list (in case you haven't gotten us anything yet and have no clue what to get us)

I'll start out with Gretchen's list: ( out of 15)

1. Power puff girls movie
2. Kitten
3. fake kitten
4. ball that bounces 75ft
5. Air Hogs Havoc Helli
6. extreme video rocker (chair)
7. Xbox 360
8. Blue camera
9. popcorn machine
10. Car cookie sheet
11. Jeep
12. Electric Motorcycle
13. Electric scooter
14. 4-weeler
15. remote control cars

(you only have to get the cheap stuff dont worry!)


now mine! :

1. Robe
2. cookbook
3. knee high socks (white with 2 black strips at the top to specific)
4 scented markers
5. Walmart gift card
6Amythst ring
7. Amethyst necklace
8. Big Monkey plushy
9. Glitter Shirt
10. Satin Ribbon (black or white)
11. chocolate coated Carmel
12. Glitter Scarf
13. Ball that bounces 75ft
14. Popcorn (Kettle corn)
15. powerade or Gatorade





And that's all I have. So talk to you later!


Shelby


ps my typing score is 51 wpm

Halloween

Pictures of Shelby's costume this year. She can post her comments later.

shelby's teacher, Mrs Davis.

Shelby's Castle

Shelby built a castle for her middle ages segment in school. She spent about 3 weeks building it out of salt dough hand-formed squares. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture prior to her taking it to school, so it looks a little hammered, but wanted to share a picture of it so she can show off her hard work.
Not only did she build the castle, she also cut up some old barbie clothes and made a costume for a "noble woman" and dressed up as a jester for the middle ages feast they had on 10/13. What a fun thing to do for school.

Deer Hunting , U O' U and School.....And Halloween

Ok, just another update on whats happenin. I just got back from Deer Hunting, and it was ok. For those who want to know if we got one, well, the answers no. Sorry! It was 32*F when we left 0.0Now, Me and my dad drove to Colorado. You wanna know why? Well.... WE WENT TO A UTAH UNIVERSITY (aka utah utes)GAME!!!!!!!!!!! Sure it was an 7 1/2 hour drive but it was fun! Utes WON!!!!!!!!!!! We got the tickets at a wedding, yep you heard me right a wedding. For free!! The Utes kicker is I guess related to my dads friends sons wife. Wow thats a mouth full. We also have another game on the 21 st of November. We went on the 10th of October. Oh yeah forgot to tell you it was 15*F there 0.0,freezing!

School is actually getting kinda fun. We just finished a Midevil Times report. Since Halloween's comin' round the corner were makein Frankinsteins out of paper and 3-D ones. Were makin' them outta mild cartoons. We are also makin pumkins. Who knew 6th grade could be so fun!

Halloween's just around the corner and I know what I'm going to be. Im going to be a ***** sorry it'll have to be a surprise. :D :) :(. I wanna know what your being even if your an adult tell me if your being a man or woman or dad or mom. Any way...........

Love yall,

Shelby mister (>'.')----C<'.')PINCH!

Crazy sister hair

Look at this totally awesome picture of Gretchen's hair!!!