Recipes to share...

With the Holidays nearing and alot of festivities going on... I thought that I'd share some fun recipes with you all.

These recipes are from a 1934 cookbook...Enjoy!

Orange Squash

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2 cups orange juice

1 cup grapefruit juice

2 cups orange sherbet

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Combine ingredients,and shake well.Garnish with mint or orange slices.

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Rainbow Punch

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Freeze in seperate trays the following mixtures:

1. Grape juice,or red raspberry juice sweetened with tupelo honey

2. Lemonade,sweetened with tupelo honey and colored green-using food coloring

Fill glasses witth cubes of frozen juice. Pour orange juice over cubes. Must be served at once for best effect.

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Pineapple and Citrus Fruit Salad

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4 large slices pineapple

1 grapefruit

2 oranges

2 tangerines

4 kumquats,or 4 cherries

Lettuce

Place on each salad plate one pineapple slice(on lettuce).

Build a dome of grapefruit sections,orange sections,and tangerine sections.Dressing may be filled in center space as dome is built up. Top with kumquat or cherry.

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Cream Fruit Dressing

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1 cup whipped cream

3 tablespoons tart fruit juice

1/2 teaspoon grated orange rind

Combine ingredients and serve at once.

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Corn Pudding

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2 cups corn,young and tender

1/2 teasponful vegetable salt

1 cup milk

2 tablespoons butter

4 egg yolks

1 tablespoonful tupelo honey

Beat egg yolks until as light as possible. Add all other ingredients. Poach in casserole at moderate temperature about 1 hour,or until set.

(*** note..I'd think about 350 degree oven would be a good setting for this)

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Broiled Apple Rings

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8 rings cut from large apples(skin not removed)

1/4 cup chopped raw fat bacon

Rub apple rings with oil on one side. Place oiled side down on baking sheet.

Distribute bacon over rings and broil.

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Buttermilk Icecream

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3 cups rich buttermilk

1 cup cream(whipped)

1/4 cup tupelo honey

1 tablespoon vanilla

1 cup chopped nut meats

Freeze in electric unit or rotary freezer.

(**basically chill in your icecream maker)

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Sliced Ham with Orange

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1 slice ham 3/4 inch thick

1 cup orange juice

2 tablespoons butter

Sections of 2 oranges

Cook ham in butter without browning for five minutes.

add orange juice and simmer until tender.

take ham from pan and arrange on hot platter.

Place orange sections in pan and brown slightly,under broiler.

Arrange on ham and serve.

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I hope that you enjoy this menu from a 1934 cookbook.

Have a lovely evening!

~The Garden Goose~

A nice week thus far...

So far it has started out to be a nice week.

I did manage to finish up the yo-yo garland I spoke of a while back..actually finished it about 2 weeks ago... or so.

I'll post a photo soon.We'll use it as a garland on this years' Christmas tree.

I have made a few Christmas ornaments as well.

2 of them... along with the tutorials to create them... are featured in the latest issue of "Small Town Living" magazine.You can see them at:

http://www.stliving.net/

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I'll be back later this evening to do more "blogging".
Have a great day!
~The Garden Goose~

Thrifty Gal...and Garden Day...

Well..yesterday morning we loaded up the whole crew and went around to a few garage sales. There weren't very many out there this past weekend, but..we did have a good time and found a few good bargains none the less. I always like a good deal..and enjoy the hunt.:0)

*I managed to find quite a few name brand little boys shirts for my son....for just 25 cents each, and in really good shape too!

So I got a $5 bag full for him.

I don't think he'll run out of shirts anytime soon.

* Then I found a set of Time/Life"Encyclopedia of Collectibes" it tells about all different types of collectibles from Fruit Crate Labels to Spoons and everything in between. Very interesting.

Got the set of 10 for $5

* Then I found a 1934 Cookbook called "The Official Cookbook of the Hay System" which is basically a cookbook geared towards natural foods. I paid only 50 cents for it.

I found it interesting that even in 1934 there was the concern about additives and so forth taking away from the quality of the foods.

A very interesting book actually, full of good recipes.

* I also found a 1969 Horseman's Riding and Training manual..which they tossed in for free.

* A 1968 edition of Reader's Digest "Complete Book of the Garden" for 50 cents.

* I also found a 1972 Norman Rockwell framed print called "The Runaway" for 50 cents.

* One of my best finds though was a large kennel style cage..made of steel...with the tray in the bottom..

for $30.

I later found the same type listed on Ebay for $89.99 with $41.00 shipping! The man told me that he had seen it for about $100 on ebay.He was right too! So, it will be used to house our banty hens come Springtime.

My husband will be glad that he will not have to build a cage for the critters. We'll only need to make them a portable run to move around the yard.

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Today..Sunday afternoon...

My daughter and I worked for quite a while on the new flower bed today...

We had about 8 rose bushes that were transplanted into the new bed, with 2 hibiscus plants, and a large clump of iris, and a miniature azalea bush, and about 5 agapanthus plants.

Things are starting to shape up, but we have about 8 more rose plants or so to incorporate into the garden, and then to begin mulching.But it's shaping up and looking good.

Then it will be on to ripping up that decking ..But there's no big hurry...just as long as it's ready for our Spring planting..which I'm sure it will be.

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Oh, and it's always so fun to have my little "waddle butt" friend "Daffy" the Duck waddling along beside us as we do our chores. He's so funny and sweet, and just loves tagging along behind me.

My mom tells me that I don't need a dog when I have that crazy duck. I think she's right..ha. He's one spoilt little quacker...ha.

(the image is of "Daffy" as a baby)

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Here's wishing you all a very lovely week.

~The Garden Goose~

Call for articles/input "Small Town Living" Magazine

Hi gals!

We'd like to ask if any of you would like to make our next issue "extra special" by sending in articles about your farm, or farm business, or craft related business.

Or maybe even an article on how you create a certain type of craft(crafting tutorial)

Poetry and short stories are also welcomed.

We ask that articles be at least a page long.

If related to your farm or farm business 1 1/2 pages is preferred...even 2 pages if possible.

Regular typing/spacing/font size.

Accompanied by at least 3 high resolution images...As well as a link to either your farm website or blog, or your online craft/store site.

Deadline for the next issue is Nov.23rd.

Thanks so much!

Look forward to hearing from you.~Tina

(email me at gardengoose at gmail.com if interested)

To see past issues of our magazine check out our website at:

http://www.stliving.net/

a nice day...

My husband and daughter were out riding bikes this evening and stopped by and asked a nweighbor for a cutting from their Confederate Rose plant.

yay! what a lovely flower it has.

The Confederate Rose is actually in the hibiscus family, and is an old Southern "pass along" heirloom plant.

It has blossoms that are about hand sized, and the plant can grow up to 10 feet tall!

The blossoms start out as a bright white, then as the day progresses the blossoms turn a pale pink, then by the end of the day they have turned a hot to dark pink color. Extremely awesome flowers. So very pretty.

This hibiscus apparently was first cultivated in Europe during the 1690s and then transported to Southern gardens in colonial America, where it took on a new identity. By the mid-19th century it had adapted so well in the South that it became a pass-along plant.Not much else is known about the American history of the Confederate rose. Even how it came by its common name remains a mystery. There is a legend, however, inspired by the Confederate rose's prominence in Southern cemeteries. After the Civil War, the legend goes, impoverished Southerners used this easily propagated heirloom found in their gardens as a substitute for other shrubs they could not afford to buy. It's more likely that the familiar name of this hibiscus was prompted by the shape of its flowers.

I was able to get about 4 cuttings from the branch that hubby was given by the neighbor, and I really hope that they grow.

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We are going to try and get out to some garage sales for fun tomorrow.

It is always fun to snoop.:0) And once in a while come across some really fun treasures.

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I hope that you all have a very lovely weekend.

~The Garden Goose~

ooh..now that's H-O-T!

My sweety wanted me to make up some fresh salsa today. So out to the garden we trekked and I felt for sure that I had some jalapeno peppers remaining in the garden. Hubby said to me..oh those aren't jalapenos, they look too big and one is purple.

Well, I brought them in and started slicing them up..whoo eee! Tasted the tip of one, and wowzers..those were some hot bell peppers! Ha!

What had happened is I had planted some bell peppers and some jalapenos right next to each other and yep..they cross pollinated. I wound up with a big purple hot pepper.

Anyhow..we are having nachos for dinner with fresh salsa.

To make the salsa this is what I did:

2 cans of Rotel chopped tomatoes with mild chiles

2 peppers chopped, seeds and ribs removed/chop really fine in your food chopper.

1 1/2 tsp. dried cilantro

2 tbs. lemon juice or lime juice your preference

Blend all together in blender.

yowzer! it has zing!

Enjoy..you can use only 1 pepper if you like a milder salsa.

We like making our nachos with chopped ham, shredded cheese blend and topped with salsa and sometimes a dollop of sour cream.

You can also add refried beans or black beans and corn to the nachos.

I have also made taco salads before using nachos as the base, adding a layer of shredded lettuce, a spoonful of refried beans, some ground beef, then cheese, and a few bean sprouts, then salsa and sour cream.

Very yummy.

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Hope you all have a really good evening!

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~The Garden Goose~

Flower Bed Project Phase 2

Well..I mentioned that I would share photos of step 2 in the large flower bed project that we are doing(oldest daughter and I)

and here they are.

We planted some salvia and another type of plant behind the birdbath(the name of which escapes me at the moment) but it has pretty tiny yellow flowers all over it.

We also moved all of the mums from out along the front walkway(where they were being forgotten and were sort of a hodge podge and few and far between along the walkway) ..anyhow we added them to the larger mums that I had gotten a few weeks ago..planted them all together in a cluster in the new flower bed..

they'll have a chance to finally be noticed and a chance to shine.

We also planted some five finger plant and some spider lilies.

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The flower bed will also have all of our roses incorporated into it, and will be mulched before it is completed. We have a quite a few other plants besides about half a dozen rose bushes to get planted in there.

I figure about another week and we may be done with it. If the weather holds out that is.

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Looking out the back French doors off of our living room I can see this pretty "garden in the making" ....and this afternoon I saw several doves and a beautiful male cardinal up under the little maple tree, and I thought to myself "I should have done something like this a long time ago" as it certainly looks cheerful from the back door.

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I've been working on creating some pretty Victorian style ornaments for a Christmas themed swap being held over at Mary Jane's Farm..10 of us signed up to swap goodies, and we all have to make 10 of the same type of item and ship them to one hostess..who then divvies up the goods so that everyone gets 10 different fun items.

Anyhow..the ornaments I am making are very easy.

I had my husband make some heart shaped vinyl decals to stick onto wooden heart cutouts. The decals have a darling Victorian girl with a wreath of roses on her head. Then I am making lace rosettes and hot gluing the hearts to that..and embellishing with ribbon bows and a ribbon hanger.

They are turning out very pretty so far.

(I would post a picture, but some of the gals in the swap might see and it would ruin the surprise..as I've already pretty much told what they are..I still want it to have a wee bit of an element of "surprise" though)..will post a photo later though.

Of course if you wish to create more of a "country Christmas" theme..you can simply paint wooden hearts to look like a "crazy quilt" then create your lace rosette. Quite a few variations that can be done.

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Well...that's about all for this evening. Hope that you all had a great day!

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~The Garden Goose~