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Honey Wheat Bread for Bread Machines Recipe


I found this recipe in the book (Electric Bread) that came with my bread machine. It is a good light wheat bread with almost no wheat taste.

My favorite way to eat it is toasted and then spread with honey butter (see recipe at the end). So delicious!

Honey Wheat Bread for Bread Machines

Ingredients 

  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1 and 1/2 cups white bread flour
  • 1/2 cup wheat bread flour
  • 1 tbsp dry milk
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 and 1/2 tsp active dry yeast (use 1 tsp if you are using rapid rise yeast)

Directions

  1. Add the ingredients to your bread machine according to the manufacturer’s directions.
  2. This recipe can be made with the regular, rapid, or delayed time bake cycles.

Honey Butter

This is absolutely delicious melted on toast!

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup honey
  • 3/4 powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions

  1. Blend all ingredients together by hand.
  2. Store in refrigerator.

Enjoy!

You can see all of my recipes under Sallie’s Favorite Comfort Food Recipes. If you do try one of my recipes and like it, please come back and let me know in a comment. I truly do appreciate it when people do so!

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Follow-Up On Vision Forum Post


I mentioned when I wrote this that I was disappointed Doug Phillips and Vision Forum had not responded to the allegations that had been brought forth by numerous people. In the interest of being fair, I did want to provide a link to a statement they released recently in which they (sort of) address the situations.

I have only three things to say about this because, again, I’m not getting drawn into this controversy on my blog.

1. The only way you can find this statement is if you have a direct link to it. It is not possible to go to the Vision Forum site and navigate to this statement. When I told David that they had put up a response, he went to the site to find it and read it. It is impossible to do so. You have to have the URL or a link. While I can put myself in their shoes and understand why they would do it that way, as someone who is concerned about the seriousness of the allegations and related matters I find it very troubling that they are not being forthcoming in addressing these issues but are burying the statement in a generally inaccessible part of their website.

2. Anyone who has even a basic knowledge of Vision Forum products and relationships knows that Matt and Jennie Chancey are “loosely associated” with VF. I have no problem with that. They are free to associate with anyone they choose. What I find hard to believe is that Doug Phillips and Vision Forum would call the special website Matt Chancey put up an “Independent Investigative Report”. Independent? How is it “independent” to have someone associated with the ministry doing the investigating? Again, if they want Matt Chancey to do investigating, fine. But please at least be honest about the fact that he is hardly an independent and disinterested party.

3. Hardly anyone has blogged about this whole controversy. I’ve got my thoughts about why that is, but I’m not going there. However, thanks to Kim I discovered that Barbara Curtis at MommyLife has written an extensive post about this situation. Barbara and her husband have suffered through spiritual abuse so she has much helpful insight to offer. Her post is long, but a helpful read whether you are interested in the VF controversy or not. No one is immune from ending up in a similar situation.

Updated to add that Barbara has added a Part 2 that is also excellent.

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Ham, Cheese, Eggs & Hashbrown Scramble Recipe


My mom made this ham, cheese, egg, and hashbrown mixup for us recently when we visited and we definitely wanted the recipe. I made it this morning for brunch and it so good!

I’m sure this will be a regular item for us now since we love breakfast foods for breakfast, lunch and supper. (Update years later: We still make this all the time. It’s so good!)

Ham, Cheese, Eggs, and Hashbrown Mixup

Ingredients

  • 2 cups frozen hashbrown potatoes (I used the Simply Potatoes refrigerated ones in the green bag and they worked great)
  • 1 cup fully cooked chopped ham
  • 1/2 cup chopped sweet onion (such as Vidalia)
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 6 eggs
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded sharp cheddar cheese

Directions

  1. In a large skillet, saute potatoes, ham and onion in vegetable oil for 10 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
  2. In a small bowl, beat eggs, salt and pepper.
  3. Add eggs to skillet, stirring occasionally until eggs are set.
  4. Remove from heat and gently stir in cheese.
  5. Spoon onto a serving platter and sprinkle with chives.

Enjoy!

You can see all of my recipes under Sallie’s Favorite Comfort Food Recipes. If you do try one of my recipes and like it, please come back and let me know in a comment. I truly do appreciate it when people do so!

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It’s Been a Long Week


Truth be told, it’s been a long few weeks, full of quite a bit of emotion for both me and David. All day I kept thinking today was Friday. I don’t know why. But New Year’s Eve seems like a lifetime ago.

There was the emotional trauma of taking down the Christmas tree and other decorations today. Ok, maybe not emotional trauma, but I always find it kind of hard to take the tree down. We still have no snow and when I checked my rose bushes on this balmy 50 degree day, THEY HAD LEAVES GROWING OUT THE ENDS. You’ve got to be kidding me! I decided I’m going to take pity on the planters of icicle pansies I have and start watering them. They probably would be four times the size they are now if I hadn’t stopped watering them this fall.

We’re getting our taxes done on Monday and anyone who has had their own business and a baby in the same year will understand the unique challenge that is. (In other words, we’re behind on our paperwork since Caroline was born.) This has also been by far, BY WAY FAR, the very worst year we’ve ever had or ever conceived we would have in the five years we’ve had our business. Between adding our new little tax deduction (Caroline) and our very less than stellar business year, we’re really wondering what the accountant will show us. Should be interesting. But as anyone knows who has experienced it, challenging financial times are very draining.

And this is the week we are taking steps to protect me from becoming pregnant again. (I’m trying to be tactful.) This will merit its own post at some point as a follow-up to our birth story. So many ladies left great comments there and I wanted to respond in another post which I plan on doing sometime soon. But I have been surprised by how hard this decision has been. David has been steadfast and I’m the one whose waffled more times that I care to admit. I’m thankful for a husband who is interested in my health and well-being more than he is in trying to have as many children as he can. There’s lots more I’ll write about this, but in another post. In any case, this has been very emotionally draining as well the past few weeks.

And all this stuff has impacted my spiritual life (well, not the Christmas tree and lack of snow) which has also left me feeling rather low and actually a little depressed if I’m honest with myself.

So, we’re kind of tired.

I’m not sure how much blogging I’ll be doing this weekend or when I’ll be able to catch up on comments and emails. So if things are kind of quiet around here, you’ll know that we’re trying to rest and catch our breath. 🙂

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