out all evening

I just thought this was a cool picture.  We were out all evening enjoying the company of friends who live in another state.  There was lots of laughter and stories but little time at home.  We plan to do it again tomorrow night.  Hopefully, I will have some time at home so I can actually post the recipe those beautiful farmer's market eggs belong to!

vanilla gelato

I have been working on non-dairy eggless frozen deserts for a while.  I was reading a cookbook and came across a gelato recipe that did not have any eggs in it.  My thought was that I had to try it.  Not bad even though it did not have as much stirring while freezing as I would like!

This actually had  a caramelish flavor because I ran out of white sugar and used brown.  Once I got past the initial taste/texture, I decided I liked it.

Vanilla Gelato

4 cups hempmilk

1/4 cup arrowroot

1 cup brown sugar

4 teaspoons vanilla

In a large saucepan over medium heat, put 1 cup hempmilk, arrowroot, vanilla, and sugar.  Whisk well which means until the arrowroot in blended in.

Pour in the rest of the hempmilk and cook while stirring all the time until it coats the back of a spoon.  This will be ten to fifteen minutes.  Think of this as time for meditation.  Like when you wash rice (yes, really).

Pour into a bowl that has a cover and cool in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.  Freeze following your ice maker directions or your favorite non-mechanical way.

This did not come out as creamy as I would have liked because I did not stir it as much as I should have.  With the hempmilk, there was a nutty flavor.  When you are going for straight vanilla, not quite what you may be thinking but it was yummy in its own right.

Enjoy!

mustard dress

As I said yesterday, I realized that I had enough extra fabric for pillowcases when I was cutting out two dresses.  One is the same mustard linen as the main piece of the pillowcase and the other is brown like the edge.  

I worked on the dress after I made the pillowcases.  It is what my family calls my frontier dress but I have changed the bodice to be a bit more fitted and the top of the skirt to also be more fitted.  I feel like it is much more work appropriate that way.  

I have also never used metal buttons on one of my dresses before.  Here is a close up of them because in the picture of them on the dress they are hard to see.  I actually used the larger one at the top of the opening and the other four down the rest of the closure.

I really liked it when it was done, even if mustard may not be the best color for me.

Here is a picture of me making our bed up in the air.  Which means I can do about anything in this dress.  Make sure it is well pressed and add some pumps and it could be called dressy.  I know I had a hard time not wearing it two days in a row.  I see more linen in the future.  I may change the neck line a bit, but they will all be similar.

mustard and brown pillowcases

My Beloved and i went and bought a piece of mustard linen/rayon this weekend.  It was for me to make a dress for myself.  I had only been thinking about this piece of linen since we had looked at it the last time we were at the fabric store so I thought it was meant to be.  i cut out the dress and had enough to make pillowcases.  I have dearly loved the brown linen pillowcases I had made earlier in the year so I new what I was going to do with the extra!  At the same time I cut out the mustard linen, I also cut out a dress in brown linen that I had bought awhile back but had not gotten too yet.  I decided that it would make a lovely edge on the pillowcase.

And that it did!  My Beloved really liked these (but not as good as the banana pancakes (evil grin)).  He likes the spoil of linen pillowcases as well.  At some point, I am going to have to make linen sheets.  I am dreaming of more linen dresses so I think I will have to make sure there is enough yardage for pillowcases (if not sheets) as well.

dessert for breakfast and healthy!

Last weekend I had been watching the bananas on the counter turn to the perfect brown dottiness for baking.  And then they started disappearing!  In this household, that is also just right for eating.  I was able to work with three bananas which became banana pancakes for Sunday breakfast.  These tasted like dessert but were heavenly!  And healthy!

Banana Pancakes

Note:  You may use milk or another non-dairy milk of your choice

          You may use two cups of whole wheat or white flour instead of the gluten free flours

3 bananas

1/2 cup brown sugar

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup arrowroot flour

1/2 cup millet flour

1/2 cup almond flour

1/2 cup teff flour

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda

1 cup hempmilk

Start preheating a griddle over medium heat.

Mash the bananas well.  Mix in the brown sugar, oil, vanilla, and salt to the bananas.  (I did this in the blender because it was easier.)  Mix in the flours, baking soda, and cream of tartar.  Mix in the hempmilk.  If you wish a thicker batter use less.  If a thinner batter, use more milk.

Grease your griddle and fry like you would for normal pancakes.  I found when I used olive oil for the frying, the pancakes were more caramelized.  Butter made them less candy like.  It was a bit strange.

My Beloved made unprintable comments about these pancakes they were so good!  It was like eating dessert first.  Did not need syrup!  Yumminess!