Week 59 Monday (2/22/15)

What the Beck?

Recipe Review       

Today’s Recipe and Location:           Red Velvet Pancakes        

Found in: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays

         Pages: 51 - 53      Copyright:  2013  Harper Collins

I figured out that there are 212 calories per serving, if 20 servings are made. (Please note that the calorie counts vary depending on the specific brands of ingredients that you choose to use.)

         These are really fun to make. They are made with cake flour instead of a pancake mix. The recipe is easy to create and tastes great. This recipe uses a Maple Buttermilk Icing instead of a syrup. I am personally not a big fan of really sweet breakfasts, but I can see that it would be a real favorite of children everywhere.

First, I mixed the dry ingredients

Here are the wet ones

The next step was to add the
wet to the dry ingredients

Here is the food coloring

The final item to create is the
Maple Buttermilk Icing

I just love it when the bubbles form

I pink stack of pancakes

Look at that icing

Random Reflections - Bucket List #47

       I have nothing new to add today, but I did cross off remodeling the kitchen. Since I am moving, I have no need to remodel this kitchen. (Yes, Steve - I figured out how to cross it out all by myself!)

·    Write a book on organizing a home

·     Using my dogs and possibly my great-nephews, and design a series of greeting     cards

·      plan my funeral

·      spend a fun day with each of my nieces/nephews (Alaina has volunteered to be     first!)

·      Take a formal cooking class

·      Organize and host a Christmas Caroling Party

·      Watch the IMBd list of the best 250 movies

·      Vacation in Colorado

·      create a list of home repairs

·      Prepare to teach a new course at Aurora University

·      Visit Brookfield Zoo and photograph the animals

·      Have absolutely no debt

·      Set up a schedule for next summer to visit area cities

·      Organize and purge the basement

·      I am going to learn as much as I can about large animals

·      Make repairs in each and every room of my home to prepare to sell

·      Research Hadrian’s Wall for visit to Scotland

·      Enter a quilt in a local fair

·      Write a book about school for parents

·      Host a game party

·      Purchase a truck

·      I would like to learn more about fostering animals

·      Visit the narrowed list of Kentucky towns each for a weekend

·      Have a B.M.I. of 24.9 or lower

·      Return to Florida/Alabama and see old friends

·      Play tennis again

·      Learn to play bridge

·      Have an in-ground pool

·      Finish writing a book on the Scent Family

·      Save up enough money for a down payment on my Kentucky house

·      Research every town in Kentucky in hopes of relocating

·      Work on learning calligraphy and bettering daily penmanship

·      Begin making my own clothing using a mannequin

·      Volunteer at an animal rescue

·      Visit all 50 states

·      Photography courses

·      Complete all of Mom’s and my scrapbooks

·      Go skiing again in Colorado

·      Meet the Duggar family

·      Watch every nominee and winner for the Academy Awards to date

·      Remodel my kitchen

·      Take piano lessons

·      Write 2 books for my great-nephews

·      Travel to Wales

·      Travel to Scotland

·      Alaskan cruise

Wants and Wishes

         I was sitting here thinking about what I want and I realized that I want to successfully finish cooking Ree’s recipes.  I am about halfway through the last book, but there are also so many recipes to cook from her blog. I am really enjoying the cooking and reviewing her recipes. When I take on a challenge such as cooking her recipes, I will make sure I achieve that goal. I am feeling really good about how much I have already done, but I still have a ways to go. At least this is really fun.