Sunday verse. Matthew 17 20

This is one of my favorites. Sally had a five part series on this on her show !,

Daily verse and help by Sally Ro

I am trying this out for Sally's daily help guide for family and friends

Fall is here and Time to post

With fall I think of fall cleaning, planting tulips,and all the fall colors of yellow, orange and some green mixed in.
Lately I notice that I feel a need to use the seasonal colors around the house.
 Spring I liked pink and yellow,
this summer I liked red especially and put all my red dishes out in the open cupboards and around the kitchen.
 Now I want to use the warmer fall colors.  I think I like my new way of thinking. I did not start
on purpose, it just took me over.  Thats what you get for being retired and around the house more.

 October was my mothers birthday.  Twenty three years after her passing  I can now just think of
her fondly with celebrating her birthday to myself and being too sad to want to think about her.
. October is my favorite holiday of holloween.
 I like it because we are on a busy street and get about 300 little holloweeners.  I look at all the costumes and usually dress in my full clown suit and my husband has a scary suit.  We take turns standing on the
porch and passing out candy.  Surprisingly, more kids are afraid of clowns than the scary mask and
trench coat.  The worst was the 17 yrs old girl who I thought was kidding at first until I walked around
her. 
I knew my youngest grandchild may be born on holloween.  What fun.  I threw holloween parties for the
kids when they were young.  Guess what.  Sammy is a holloween baby.  Im sure he will get tired of that theene  sometime. Holly make the best of your theme while you can!!!
I hada fall wedding oct 24th.  This finishes that time of the great color tour area we live in.  The maples
and bushes in the fields and shrobs all showing their great beautiful colors.
Today is the day,  Oct 1st and the start this wonderful month.   I like the seasons for different reasons but
I think May for the start of real spring and summer around here and October are my favorite months.

Following is a black and white cake for our anniversary\

Black and White Cake
3 cups all purpose unbleached flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 cup whole milk
1 and 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup chocolate syrup

For the glaze:
1 and 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
3 tblsp warm water
1 tsp vanilla..............................Bundt pan works well for this

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. In another large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until blended using a hand mixer. Add the eggs to the butter mixture, one by one, mixing after each addition.

Add the vanilla to the cup of milk and stir. Slowly, add both the flour mixture and milk mixture to butter mixture, mixing them in alternately in small batches. Thoroughly mix the ingredients together, but take care not to over-mix.
Pour 2/3 of the batter into a greased and floured bundt cake pan. Spread evenly.

Add the baking soda to the chocolate syrup and stir to mix. Then, add the chocolate mixture to the remaining batter by hand. Mix thoroughly until the color is even and chocolate is well-distributed. Pour the chocolate batter on top of the white batter (as shown in the pictures). Spread evenly. Do not stir.

Bake the cake at 350 for 65 – 70 minutes taking care to check on it after about on hour depending on the heat of your oven. When it’s done, the cake should come away from the side of the pan just a tiny bit and a toothpick inserted in the center should come out clean. The cake, however, will still appear quite moist.

Cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes before transferring the cake to a wire rack.

slnce the cake is cool, mix the confectioners sugar, warm water, and vanilla in a pouring measuring cup until there are no lumps. A whisk is helpful in this regard.
This is from another blog who had an anniversary this fall
This great blog is hungry bruno  watch for it with my favorite blogs

Winnie's Jelly Oatmeal Cookies Click to enlarge

I like to post my mothers actual recipes.  I remember her baking then

Pancakes The Uncles Special treat

I have an uncle Fred who always cooks breakfast if we have a womens weekend.
Blueberry pancakes is his favorite!

This is the basic recipe.  Add your cup of fruit to it.
2 cups of Pancake Mix (buttermilk)
2 TBLS oil
2 eggs
1 cup of buttermilk
1 cup Blueberries (fresh or frozen thawed)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Mix ingredients.  Cook on hot griddle.  Make as directed on pancake mix box.

He finishes this with  sausage links,  fried eggs, toast and bacon.  You can only have this
once a month.
Great though!!!

Uncle Walter gave me some recipes years ago
He is gone now but his meals live on!

Swedish Pancakes
4 eggs,  1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup flour, 2 tbsps butter
1 dash salt,  1 dash sugar

Mix eggs, flour and milk.  Beat two minutes.  Put two tbsps of butter into
an iron skillet.  Pour mixture in the iron skillet.  Place in 400 degree
oven for 13 min.  Or watch until pancake puffs
up and turns golden brown on sides.

Serves 4

Add  Blueberry sauce... This is Glenda my cousins lite sauce
Frozen  Blueberries
Splenda
Cook frozen blueberries in sauce pan over medium heat until soft and juicy.
Add in sugar to taste
Note  Do not thaw frozen blueberries before cooking.

Happy breakfast to you!!

Relook at the Dueling Potato Soup Recipes

Look at family recipes Nov 2, 2009, you will see the two Potato soup recipes from uncles
who have passed. Dale and Reg dueling it out.
Look over these recipes... You will enjoy them

Winnie's Molasses cookies

1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup molasses
1 egg
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger (not in winnie's recipe but some put in)
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons granulated sugar added myself for topping

1. Heat oven to 325°F. In large bowl, beat brown sugar, shortening, molasses
 and egg
 beat with electric mixer on medium
fold  in rest of ingredients.
 Roll into small balls 1 1/2 inch
Roll in sugar before putting on cookie sheet
Put on ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart

Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Bake about 12 to 15 minutes
check in 10 minutes want set but not dark
cool on wire rack