Gazpacho Recipe

August 27, 2012 By

gazpacho recipe

My husband and I are trying to eat a lot more vegetables and we were hoping to get the kids to eat them too. For me, I have found I have a lot more luck if I drink my veggies, that is why we start off every day with a green smoothie. But getting them in through out the rest of the day still proved to be a challenge. So we opted to try soups. One of our first soups is the summertime favorite Gazpacho. Here is an easy Gazpacho recipe. We served it in little aperitif glasses to introduce the kids to the flavor and texture. It was a fun way to try Gazpacho and it also makes it the perfect way to serve it during dinner parties or at a bridal or baby shower.

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Gazpacho Recipe
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Recipe type: Soup
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Serves: 4
 
A zesty version of Gazpacho that allows you to get a lot of veggies in a easy to make raw, cold soup!
Ingredients
  • 2 large ripe tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 cucumber, seeded, peeled, chopped
  • 1 small onion, quartered
  • 1 sweet bell pepper, seeded
  • 3 cups vegetable juice - like V8
  • ⅓ cup white or red wine vinegar
  • several dashes hot pepper sauce
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp pepper
Instructions
  1. Place all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.
  2. Serve immediately
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Wordless Wednesday – The Bollman Bridge Savage Mill

August 22, 2012 By

Wordless Wednesday The Bollman Bridge Savage Mill

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Gluten Free Pancake Recipe

August 20, 2012 By

I have decided to stop using Gluten Free Bisquick because General Mills opposes GMO labeling and because it is very processed. We are trying to continue to cut out more and more processed foods so I have opted for making my gluten free pancakes on my own. I have started using King Arthur Gluten Free Flour blend and have adapted one of their regular pancake recipes for gluten free baking.

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Gluten Free Pancake Recipe
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Recipe type: Breakfast
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Serves: 6
 
Ingredients
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1½ Cups milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract (gluten free)
  • 1 tsp almond extract (gluten free)
  • 3 Tbs melted butter
  • 1½ Cups King Arthur Gluten free Flour blend
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 2 Tbs honey
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl combine the ingredients until well incorporated.
  2. Use immediately.
  3. Pour batter onto a hot pan and cook until the pancake starts to firm up.
  4. Flip pancake and cook a few seconds more.
  5. Serve hot with your favorite toppings, we like natural peanut butter with a drizzle of honey.
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DIY Beaded Wall Letter

August 14, 2012 By

DIY Beaded Wall Letter

I wanted to add some easy wall decorations to our ever evolving decor. I was poking around Pinterest and found some nice letters for the wall, but nothing that I really loved. I decided I wanted something beaded but sort of edgy at the same time. Hence the DIY Beaded Wall Letter was born. It is a simply project that I hope you will like.

Supplies:

  • 24 gauge wire in silver tone
  • 1 wooden letter – mine was pre-painted white
  • assorted seed beads (6/0) in silvers, clears and whites
  • small seed beads in silver or clear
  • silver spray paint

Start by spray painting the letter silver. Let it dry for several hours or per the instructions on the spray paint can.

Begin by wrapping a portion of the letter with silver wire. Wrap in crisscross patterns as well as simply around. You want an organic look to be formed, but make it pleasing to your eye.

Once you have a pattern you like, snip the wire and tuck it firmly in the back of the letter, rounding off the end so it doesn’t dig into your wall. Then, snip off another piece of wire, round one end so that the beads will not fall off, and begin stringing small seed beads in clear or silver. Wrap that wire all along the  wire wrapped portion of the letter, ending it in the back of the letter.

Finally, snip several lengths of wire, round off one end on each so the beads do not fall off and string random patterns of the white, silver and clear larger seed beads (6/0). Wrap them around the letter in random patterns until you achieve a look you like.

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