November 16 & 17

Friday November 16, 2012

great day of weather .... sunny and warm 50 degrees

the grandkids had a half day at school so I picked them up at 2pm for the

weekend....played games and made another cookie cake...

Gabby decorating...

Jacob putting on the finishing touch....

Chili-Cheese Dogs for dinner ....

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Saturday November 17, 2012

another beautiful sunny day!!!

we jammed a whole ton of stuff into today..... Building & Baking....

after breakfast we went for a walk into the back to decide what we were

going to do at the bunkhouse.....we put the floors in on the upstairs....

here are the kids looking through the hole before Ross covered

it up with wood....

then back up to the farm to shuck beans.... these were the beans

that were picked back in October and left to dry....

Gabby putting the beans into a jar for storage

Sophia doing the same.....

the decision for dessert tonight was something new...

Chocolate Angel Food Cake..... I made a regular

Angel Food Cake on July 24th....there are a bunch of

pictures of each step on that blog....just took a few pictures

of this one....

Chocolate Angel Food Cake :

1 1/4 cup powdered sugar

1 1/4 cup cake flour

1/4 cup cocoa powder

put these items into a bowl and whisk together well and set aside

2 cups egg whites

1/4 tsp salt

1 1/4 tsp cream of tartar

1 1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

in a different bowl mix the eggs whites, salt and cream of tartar.....whip these together on high until it starts to thicken....add the sugar a little at a time and keep mixing.....add vanilla...keep mixing.....this will get really thick....it took us over 15 minutes until that happened...so don't stop mixing...

add in the flour mixture a little at a time by folding it in with a spatula...