Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Sour Cream Pound Cake Ingredients: 1/2 pound unsalted butter 3 cups sugar 6 eggs 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 teaspoons lemon extract 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup sour cream or Greek yogurt ( I used my yogurt) Directions: Prepare a large tube pan or 2 loaf pans with butter and flour. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. In a large stand mixer combine butter and sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, again mixing in well. Add vanilla and lemon extracts. In a small bowl combine the flour, soda and salt. Gradually add the flour mixture and sour cream or Greek yogurt, alternating. Add the batter to the tube pan or 2 loaf pans. Bake for 1 hour or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool completely before carefully inverting onto a plate. This cake also freezes well. Wrap carefully in air tight plastic before freezing. YUMMY

I have had this recipe pinned on my board for quite sometime now and have meant to make it since then. It is one of   Rachael Ray  recipes but I did not have all the ingredients on hand, even thou it called for only 4. I did not have Pecorino-Romano cheese so I substituted it with some Swiss Cheese I had. And I didn't have chives either so I just cut some of the green tops off of the onions I have growing out in the garden. Eggs in Clouds Ingredients 4 eggs 1/4 cup grated pecorino-romano ( I substituted Swiss Cheese) 1/4 cup chopped chives or green tops to onions 1/4 cup crumbled bacon Pepper Directions Separate eggs, putting whites in 1 large bowl and yolks in 4 separate small bowls. Whip whites until stiff peaks form. Fold in cheese, chives and bacon. Spoon into 4 mounds on parchment-lined baking sheet; make a deep well in center of each. Bake at 450 degrees for 3 minutes, then add 1 yolk to each well; season with pepper. Bake until yolks are just

Yesterday while relaxing with "the man of the place" , he was watching Band of Brothers, I was on the my laptop just looking around when I came across this idea on someones board on Pinterest.  I thought it was Sarah Roe's board but I couldn't find it this morning when I went back. I should of pinned it, so I'm sorry I can't give credit to where credit is due. It was such a simple idea I didn't think it would work but I had the few simple items needed and what could it hurt to give it a try. I keep at time my harvested fruits and veggies on the counter and I also keep scraps and trimmings to put in the compost bin outside in a container on the counter next to the sink and no matter how well covered or sealed my container is, I still get these pesty bugs in my kitchen. YUK I wish I knew how they show up ever year.    As you can barely see in this photo some of the over dozen gnats/fruit flies in the jar. What you need is  a sheet of

Happy 4th of July Wishing you a fun and safe holiday. I'm spending mine at home with "the man of the place" and just relaxing as much as possible. Did picked up a couple of fireworks I just don't know if I can fire them up thou, I sort of liked them.

Today I had my friend Mary over for lunch, some stitching and a lot of catching up.  Nothing said summer than a beautiful bowl of fruit.  So I decided to make a fresh, ripe  and refreshing fruit salad.  Then there was the trimmings from making the salad leftover so I figured I would share it with "the girls". Boy, did "the girls" go nuts over it all. They had it all cleaned up in no time, and with this heat, I try to give them a cool or frozen treat everyday. I also made egg salad sandwiches for lunch and I used my egg masher for the first time. It worked really well.     And so cute too   Practical and cute We had a good time and we were able to get a little appliqueing done. We both have been working on the Dresden Plate Quilt. As you can see I have black for center and points and Mary is using a blue print for her center and points. I have six more blocks to get appliqued done and then need to assemble the blocks.

Saturday  price  Woo Hoo can you believe it, I am excited because the price of gas is under $3.00. It was 2.99 on Saturday but on the news this morning they just said that it went down again and it's now $2.97 at some stations here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Boy I would love it to go down more but I would not be surprised thou if this is short lived.  Doing the happy dance

I haven't written in a few days because I have been at my youngest daughter's home visiting and was just too busy to post anything.  You see I had the first two seasons of Downton Abbey with me and that is what we did all weekend, watch them both, 15 hours. I was able to do a lot of knitting while watching. Now we are ready for season 3 to come out on DVDs. You see I hadn't seen these before until now and  I'll tell you, I'm hooked. This is a good series and wish I had been watching it the whole time. Thank goodness for DVDs. I'll soon be caught up for seasons 4 to come on. green beans are doing good  Boy this heat is the pits and by the sounds of it, it's hot all over. I know my garden is sure taking a beating and the gardener here (me) is too. I'm  only up to doing a couple hours in the morning and my garden needs more than that to get it into top shape. I can  get at least one more picking from the green beans and need to also pick the r