Last week I stopped in at a Mennonite farm to check out their produce - they had a lot of squash as you can see by this picture - for the first time, I made a squash soup that I first saw on Instagram, if you are looking for a great squash soup recipe, check out Rosinda's recipe on her blog, With Love From the Kitchen - it's delicious!!!
I bought a huge zucchini when I was there - I made Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins - what a perfect fall muffin - delicious! The original recipe is from All Recipes, I have very seldom tried one of the top rated recipes on that site that hasn't been good. This one doesn't disappoint!!
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins
1 1/2 c. flour
3/4 white sugar
1 tsp. b. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/2 c. vegetable oil
1/4 c. milk
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 c. shredded zucchini - I squeezed the liquid from the shredded zucchini.
1/2 c. miniature chocolate chips
1/2 c. walnuts (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Grease 12 muffin cups or one with paper muffin liner cups. I always use the Reynolds type, the muffin or cupcake slides out perfectly.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl. Mix egg, oil, milk, lemon juice and vanilla extract in a bowl; stir into dry ingredients until just moistened. Fold in zucchini, chocolate chips and walnuts. Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full.
Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick comes out clean, 20-25 minutes.
I made no changes to this recipe!!
I made a pumpkin pie the other day and had half a can of pumpkin left so I started scrolling through allrecipes.com for some way to use it. This was not one of the recipes that popped up at the beginning, it was buried further down, I'm glad I kept going, it's a great recipe. If you want to check out the original recipe here it is.
Pumpkin Bread
2 c. flour
2 tsp. b. powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1/4 tsp. b. soda
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1 c. brown sugar
1/3 c. butter flavored shortening ( I used margarine)
2 eggs
1 c. pumpkin puree
1/4 c. milk
1/2 c. raisins (optional) (I did add the raisins)
1/4 c. chopped walnuts (I used pecans)
In a mixing bowl combine flour, b. powder, salt, pumpkin pie spice, b. soda and cloves.
In a separate bowl, cream together shortening(margarine) and brown sugar. Mix in eggs, pumpkin and milk. Stir flour mixture into wet mixture until just combined. Fold in raisins and nuts, if desired. Pour into a greased and floured 9x5 loaf pan. I used my yellow Pyrex desert dawn loaf pan.
Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
Enjoy!! It's delicious!!
I sure don't seem to find much anymore that I want to buy at the thrifts but I still go, I'm always on the lookout for scarves, but two of my regular spots have put the silky scarves away in lieu of wintery scarves, people wear scarves all year round so I don't see the reasoning behind that - they never have that many and they don't take up that much space. Here's what I did bring home.
I've never seen a blowmold like this one - it's about 9 inches across, great for a shelf! I like it!!
I hadn't been to the flea market since the beginning of the summer, not much there I was interested in, but they had a few tables of Christmas - I have to buy old wrapping paper, I just have to..
Anytime I see these, I buy them too, one still has the original Kmart sticker on it, we haven't had Kmart here in Canada for quite a while now.
Another thing I can't seem to pass up now - old children's playing cards..
I picked up this old Simplicity clown pattern - SMASHed it!!
I was showing my sister in law my scarves that I had picked up when I was home, she goes to Value Village every week, that's another section for her to check out and she did, this was in my mailbox this week!
She texted me from the 70 mile yard sale - did I want this catalogue, sure, I did - 25 cents for this 1940 Simpsons Spring and Summer edition - the front and back covers are missing but that's fine, I'll have to share some of the great fashions another day.
So, nothing big but things that I like and things that didn't cost much!
If you like shrimp, there's a good chance you love coconut shrimp too - it's just so delicious!! It's always good in a restaurant and I'm not ashamed to say, I've bought frozen coconut shrimp in a box!! I won't be buying it any more, not after trying this recipe. I pinned it today on Pinterest and tried it that quickly and now, I am blogging about it just as quickly!! Click right here and you can see the original recipe on Sallys Baking Addiction.
Easy Coconut Shrimp
1/3 c. all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
2 large eggs, beaten
3/4 c. Panko bread crumbs
1 c. sweetened shredded coconut
1 pound raw large shrimp, peeled and deveined
Vegetable oil or coconut oil
Start with 3 medium bowls. Combine flour, salt & pepper in one. Beat the eggs in the second bowl. Combine Panko and coconut in third bowl.
Dip the shrimp into the flour, then the eggs, then dredge the shrimp into the coconut mixture, pressing gently to adhere. Get as much coconut on as you can. Place on a platter while you continue the dipping process.
Add enough oil to cover the the bottom of a large skillet, mine was large enough that I could cook them all at once. Then, just fry as you would any shrimp.
Those morsels are delectable!! You can dip them with a sweet chili sauce or a sweet & sour sauce, which is what we used.
I have made coconut shrimp before in the oven, they were drier and the coconut tended to fall off, this recipe is way better and so easy!! We loved them - I'll be making them again!!
The months from August through October for me have a lot of significant dates. My children were born in August and September and my husband in September - that's a lot of birthdays real close to together - Darcy and Gary are only five days apart.
We celebrated one of those birthdays here at the house in August, Carla was the first of the birthdays!
Then we went home to Prince Edward Island and I didn't get a chance to acknowledge the anniversary of my parent's passing - how has the time gone so fast, Dad passed away on August 25, 2007 and Mom two years ago on August 16. I'll miss them always...
Today marks the passing of my mother-in-law - two years for her as well - that was a terrible few months, with both of our mothers passing away in just over a month!
But, we remember all the good times we shared - like Darcy's first Christmas!
Then, it's our anniversary on October 3 - it was a miserable few days leading up to the big day, but the sun shone by the time we got to the church. Here we all were...
Next big event to think about will be Christmas!!! I actually picked up a couple of items last week....
Have a great day!!!
This post did not turn out the way I wanted it too, my plan was to share some advertisements pertaining to fall from my vintage magazines - but, I don't seem to have that many fall issues and there sure aren't many fall related ads in the ones I have. So, the topic changed to household ads from my Good Housekeeping, October, 1971 issue.
The 70's take us back to all those wonderful colours - and to get that mod colour for your kitchen, all you had to do was buy a package of Rit.
Maybe you were already set up in a kitchen that looked like one of these...
What kitchen is complete without a mixer? And, what an offer, buy a mixer, send away for a shaver!!
I'd love to have one of these pots! Who knew you could send away for these beauties? There were so many mail in offers in the magazines back then - here's a post I did on that very topic back in July.
No kitchen would have been complete without Palmolive- who can forget "Madge"
I think this is a color we all identify with the 70's. I don't remember anything around home in this colour though, our kitchen appliances were brown!
I wouldn't mind having this ironing board cover right now. I am on the hunt for a new one and it's not going well, any store I've checked has very few and they are either plain or striped - don't they make pretty ones anymore?
I don't know anybody that had a livingroom that looked like this, everything was brown, gold or rust where I lived!!
This looks more like it...
There was just no end to the things you could send away for. I had to include this embroidery one because I actually did the fall scene, way back then, and gave it away as a gift!!
This was a great deal..we all belonged to a record club of some sort!!
There's those colours again.
The bathroom could be quite mod too... Hey Fatso, now, that's quite the pair of scales!!! Once again, something else to send away for, your mailbox could be full!!!
I'm including a couple of food advertisements as well, I remember Mom making upside down pineapple cake every time we would go to visit my grandmother, I never liked it, I don't think I've had it since the 70's, maybe it would taste better to me now.
Space Food Sticks - I've never heard of these but then, we probably didn't have these in Canada..
One thing that's still going strong - Kraft Macaroni and Cheese - but named Kraft Dinner here in Canada!!
These posts always take a while to work on but they're fun, times have changed but then in other ways, things are still the same - like Kraft Dinner!!!
I'm joining in with Joann for her second week of Vintage Bliss Tuesday's and also with Dawn at We Call it Junkin - stop by these great blogs!!
My intention this morning was to make a zucchini loaf, I already made one and it was delicious, I had the zucchini to make another one but no can of crushed pineapple. I didn't want to run out to the store, when you're in the mood for baking, you just want to get started, so I made muffins instead - those three speckled bananas were begging to be used!!
My husband picked up this cookbook for me a few years ago, it has the best "Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins" - it's the one I always make!
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
3 large bananas, mashed
1/4 cup butter/margarine, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup chocolate chips
Combine sugar and margarine, blend well. Add egg, mashed bananas and vanilla. Fold in dry ingredients. Add chocolate chips. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes.
Hot out of the oven...
Eat them with a speck of butter or plain - either way, they're delicious!!!
