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January 15, 2012January 24, 2012

Cinnamon Roll Recipe | Biscuit like | Baking with Maddy

Baking with kids can be a challenge for some, but for me, I find it fun, rewarding, cute and I love it! Maddy is my step daughter and she is such a great help in the kitchen. She listens, she helps and she even wants to help with the dishes afterwards. Riley is more of the taste tester, and always seems to appreciate that part too:) (recipe below pictures)

(rolling)

(buttering)

This weekend we made Jello and Cinnamon Rolls from scratch(not the can! lol) they actually turned out awesome and I found a cool tip on pinterest for cutting them and made a video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8tvteDKjx4

These are not cinnabon type cinnamon rolls, they are more like a pastry, flaky, biscuit type. They are what I grew up on here in Nova Scotia. We baked half of these one morning an then put the rest in the fridge until the next day and baked them in the morning, GOOD both times but the next day ones were stickier 🙂

Ingredients
3 cups of flour
6 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup white sugar
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1 1/2 cups of milk
2-4 tbsp of butter or margarine
1 cup of brown sugar
1 tbsp of cinnamon

1. Combine flour, baking powder, salt and white sugar, mix.
2. cut in lard, then stir in milk, you may need to finish mixing with your hands.
3. Flour a surface and roll out the cinnamon rolls in a rectangle type shape about 1 cm in thickness, this will take a bit of coaxing and flour.

4. with a knife, butter your dough, do not melt the butter, just butter with a knife gently.
5. mix brown sugar and cinnamon and spread over dough. Roll the dough up, cut (watch my video on an awesome trick for cutting them) and bake!

Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees

January 12, 2012January 24, 2012

Jewelry Work Station | About Me

A few people have asked me,where do I work from, a studio, office or if I work from home? Also is there more then one person making the jewelry? Who are you? Well I am Amanda Mackay
I solely run this website, I built it, I take all the photos myself, I promote the site, I write the blog, I make the jewelry, I ship and package it. This site and jewelry/bookmark/accessorie line is by, Me! Now let me correct that, I have had helpers, my step son who is 13 in December has helped me make items, my friends Amy and Holly who are also jewelry makers have also helped. They are my backup if I need help!

Here is my workstation, my dining room:
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Why I started making jewelry? A few year ago I had many problems finding department store jewelry that fit my big ole neck, so I decided to make my own! A friend of mine Murielle Deon got me started and taught me all she knows. She was my biggest help! I took it from there and taught myself the rest, ventured into stamping, geocaching charms, bookmarks etc.

I live in Yarmouth, NS, I have a boyfriend and 2 step children that I adore, I love making anything myself, cooking, gardening, I love geocaching, photography and anything crafty! My whole family is a creative bunch, my dad is a knife maker, my brother creates chainsaw carvings http://mackaycarvings.com and my mother who tole paints, creates wreaths, and many other things.

January 7, 2012January 7, 2012

Sweet Potato Crisps Healthy, Easy Recipe | Best Christmas Gift Ever.

Over the holidays I had a bout of gallbladder issues, sweet potato’s are one of the foods that are good for your gallbladder(who knew), yet I hated them with a passion. I had tried sweet potato fries a few times and ick, against my past judgement, I decided to try them again.. OH MY YUM. These are addictive, just a warning.. But really not that bad for you:)

Sweet Potato Crisps Recipe

Ingredients
1 sweet potato
1 tsp olive oil(cold pressed)
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp parsley flakes
1 tsp marjoram(sweet if available)
However, I have also used a table spoon of herb and garlic dip spice from Epicure instead, but I have tried both as I ran out of Epicure.
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Preheat over to 375 degrees. Wash the potato’s but leave the skins on! Slice potato thin about 2-3 mm, put all slice in a plastic bag, dump oil and spices in and shake or rub the pieces around, just enough to coat them a little. You can do this way before you need them as I find letting them sit a bit longer enhances the spices, so doing the up even the day before is fine! Just leave them in the bag until you are ready.

Baking: I use parchment paper, I find it helps greatly for sticking. Arrange the slices on the sheet bake for about 20-25 minutes and check them!

On a side but awesome note, my step-daughter or should I say my daughter:) gave me a surprise Christmas present we me and Mike picked the kids up on Christmas Day, Maddy is 8, and has a huge heart. She gave me an envelope with the note below, (I am now labeled a mom hehe) an 30 cents, she later tells me, she would have given me more, but she didn’t have very much money. 🙂 Needless to say, the 30 cents is tucked away in my treasure box and in my heart. I loved that gift:)

The gifts that money can’t buy 🙂 Another awesome gift, was being able to spend time with my family. We cooked and baked, made pretzel’s like from the mall or movies(recipe and post coming soon), watched movies, went for drives and just spent great time together.

November 29, 2011November 26, 2011

Birds Nest, Bird Saving, Bird Feeders Homemade, Just a lot of info about BIRDS!

New! Birds Nest Necklace! I will be selling these shortly! The eggs will be able to be different colors if you choose, what do you think? Cute eh?

Now this is an interesting story, my step-daughter and myself are the early birds, so we are usually up before the boys either watching tv, or baking or even cleaning. Maddy is always wanting to help me with anything I am doing <3. That morning Maddy asked me to go feed our live in ducks(they never leave our pond/yard here’s a youtube video of Riley Feeding them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4hwbQKHFNQ), I say sure, and about 2 min later she comes running in saying there is a bird trapped in our garage she thinks, so of course I grab my camera and run outside in my PJ’s and found this guy:

He was frantically trying to get out, slamming into the windows, even the doggie door(which is how I figure he got into the shed). We had opened the big garage door at this point and were trying to shoo him out and he just couldn’t figure out which way to fly. I can imagine he was a tad scared considering the two huge monsters that just came in(lol ) so Maddy steps up to the plate, walks over to the window, pets the bird, takes two hands, scoops him up and lets him go out the garage door, it was almost like a Disney movie lol Maddy was freaking about it, and honestly, so was I. They say the early bird catches the worm, well in this case, the early risers catch the birds hehe.
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Also as a side project this fall, we decided to make pinecone bird feeders, I think this one was Mike’s idea.

To make these just melt a bit of peanut butter and roll in bird seed, note, tie the string on first! 🙂