My friend at Arctic Garden Studio

You know I love to read your blogs and try to keep up with your doings. Well, today while I was reading on Arctic Garden Studio blog, I see Nicole has a cool giveaway going on. So I just had to join and see if possible there's is a chance to win! Go here to check this out:http://arcticgardenstudio.blogspot.com/2011/09/eat-your-books-giveaway.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArcticGardenStudio+%28Arctic+Garden+Studio%29

I mean how could one go wrong with this? To be able to list the titles of  your cookbooks and be able to find the recipe you want faster! So, I went down to my bookshelves and reorganized them and took these pictures:

And this is not all, because there are magazines and recipe card boxes. I sure enjoy cooking!

I didn't know that I have over 158 cookbooks, pretty cool. Don't you think I might have a chance???? You should enter yourself, it will be fun to see who wins!
I do enjoy reading Nicole's recipes and have tried a few. She lives in Alaska, what an adventure! Although I love reading everyone's blogs and where they are from. I think the old saying is true, "Home is where you hang your hat." Every place on this earth to me has beauty, we just have to find it.  I have lived in 3 different states of the United States and have found great people in each one. But I feel I have many friends now through blogging. Thanks, blog world!

A Treat

This morning I baked up a batch of delicious pumpkin waffles! I found this recipe online and thank you for whoever it was I got it from. I am catching myself reading a lot of blogs, so I don't remember who had this recipe. I realize this is somewhat like my other waffle picture, but it really is different.

Enjoy!!!!

Pumpkin Oatmeal Waffles w/ Sourdough

Mix these ingredients together:
½ cup whole-wheat flour
½ cup oats, old-fashioned
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly ground
½ teaspoon soda
½ teaspoon salt (opt)
1 tablespoon dark brown sugar

Add in and mix well:
½ cup sourdough, freshly fed
1 cup pumpkin, puree
1 egg
1 tablespoon corn oil or melted butter
¼ - 1/3 cup milk, as needed
¼ cup chopped pecans, (opt)
Make sure all ingredients are well moistened, will be lumpy.
Bake on preheated waffle iron as per manufacturer’s suggestion.
Serve with your favorite syrup.

A Wheat Bread

I made some wheat bread with the wheat levain and decided to make some rolls, along with the bread. The bread was beautiful until I took it off the towel and put into the oven. Once that happened the bread sunk a bit.

But the rolls and bread tasted just fine. Here are the pics. A picture of the dough, ready for the 1st rising.

The rolls and bread rising, doesn't that look yummy. Then the finished rolls, some with buttered tops, some without. I've decided it didn't matter if there was butter or not. And the bread not as pretty, but tasted great!

Any hints on how to take the bread from the tea towel to the oven without falling?

Pancakes

We love pancakes and make many different kinds and use different recipes, here is just one of our favorites!

Zephyr Pancakes from the King Arthur Flour Cookbook, is quite delicious!
The recipe is on page 4 in that book. Where does the word Zephyr come from? The recipe says it comes from the Midwest, what part, as I have not heard of this.

Here is what I did different:
2 cups unbleached flour
2 ½ tablespoons sugar
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon soda
2 tablespoons wheat germ
2 whole eggs
1 ¼ cups heavy cream
1 ¼ cups buttermilk
2 tablespoons oil or melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix together the dry ingredients with a whisk. Add in the rest of the ingredients and blend well, it is ok if there are a few lumps.
Preheat a lightly greased griddle. Pour on the batter with a large spoon, about ¼ cup pancake. Make sure the heat is slightly less than medium, although mine is medium high, (gas stove is much different than electric, make sure you watch and don’t burn the pancakes). The pancakes puff up nicely. When first side is golden brown flip with spatula and heat other side until golden brown. Serve and eat.

My syrup recipe:
1 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1 teaspoon maple flavoring
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix the 2 sugars, corn syrup and water together. Cook until mixture starts to boil, keep at a low boil for 4 minutes. (* Keep an eye on this as it can boil over the pot fast.)Turn off heat and add the maple flavoring and vanilla. Any leftovers can be kept in refrigerator for 1-2 weeks.

I know you may have wanted a picture, but most pancakes do look alike, so I thought a recipe would be better. Hope you enjoy it.

Picture of the books

My Start

Today I am going to learn to blog. I have enjoyed others and thought I would like to share things I have enjoyed in my life as a homemaker. I have had many jobs and therefore might mention a few as time goes by.

I am LDS (Mormon) and enjoy it thoroughly, it keeps me busy and on my toes. If you are interested on what we believe in, go to www.mormon.org .

My joy is baking. I chose "Domesticated Engineer" as my blog name because there are too many things I like to do at home. I go in spurts. Sometimes, I really enjoy baking, other times I read or scrapbook or sew or knit, etc. I also enjoy learning other activities.


I am on Facebook and belong to a group with others who share their recipes. But I have found out it is kinda of hard to put a picture with what I cook, so will try blogging.

Here goes!