Thursday, October 25, 2012
Thanksgiving Dinner Menu
Here is the current plan for Thanksgiving Day Dinner:
Roasted Turkey,
Boar's Head Sweet Slice Ham,
Crockpot "Stuffing",
Cran-Raspberry Rum Relish,
Mashed Potatoes,
Green Bean Casserole,
Creamed Corn,
Creamed Onions, and
Overnight Blue Ribbon Dinner Rolls.
Dessert:
Pumpkin Pie,
Pecan Pie,
Apple Pie,
Vanilla Ice Cream, and
Whipped Cream
Friday, July 06, 2012
Making Bagels
Yield: 8-12 bagels
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups warm water (112-115 degrees F)
2 tablespoons active dry yeast (3 packages)
3 tablespoons sugar
4 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tablespoon salt
8 cups of water, for boiling
1 egg white, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon water
Additionally, you can add one of the following (or be creative and come up with your own delicious addition to the recipe!):
cinnamon and/or raisins
poppy seeds
onions or garlic
sesame seeds
Instructions:
1. In stand mixer with dough hook, mix yeast, sugar and warm water together and let stand 10 minutes.
2. Add 3 cups flour, then salt, then the rest of the flour.
3. Knead dough on low until it comes together. Knead on high for 15 minutes. Add additional flour if dough does not clean sides of mixing bowl. Dough should be fairly smooth and somewhat firm. Place dough in a greased bowl, cover and let rise until double. (about 20-30 minutes)
4. Punch dough down (if making cinnamon raisin bagels, add the cinnamon and raisins now -- knead just enough to swirl the cinnamon through the dough). Divide and shape into 12 balls. (For larger bagels, make only 8 balls.) Allow to rest for 5 minutes.
5. Bring 2 quarts of water to boil. Make a hole in each ball of dough and pull open about 2 inches, making a bagel shape. Place the shaped dough onto a cookie sheet and cover for 10 minutes.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Drop 2 or 3 bagels at a time into the boiling water for about 45 seconds, turning each once.
7. Drain cooked bagels on a wire rack. Mix egg white and water; brush tops with egg white mixture and top with optional toppings, if using. Place bagels on greased baking sheets.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Bagels will be lightly browned and shiny.
To make Everything Bagels, I put the following in a soup or pie plate – 1 Tablespoon each of dried, minced onion; dried, minced garlic; kosher salt; poppy seeds; and sesame seeds. Stir that up. After brushing each bagel with the egg wash (I used a whole egg instead of just the white), dip one side into the seed and spice mixture. Then bake as usual.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups warm water (112-115 degrees F)
2 tablespoons active dry yeast (3 packages)
3 tablespoons sugar
4 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tablespoon salt
8 cups of water, for boiling
1 egg white, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon water
Additionally, you can add one of the following (or be creative and come up with your own delicious addition to the recipe!):
cinnamon and/or raisins
poppy seeds
onions or garlic
sesame seeds
Instructions:
1. In stand mixer with dough hook, mix yeast, sugar and warm water together and let stand 10 minutes.
2. Add 3 cups flour, then salt, then the rest of the flour.
3. Knead dough on low until it comes together. Knead on high for 15 minutes. Add additional flour if dough does not clean sides of mixing bowl. Dough should be fairly smooth and somewhat firm. Place dough in a greased bowl, cover and let rise until double. (about 20-30 minutes)
4. Punch dough down (if making cinnamon raisin bagels, add the cinnamon and raisins now -- knead just enough to swirl the cinnamon through the dough). Divide and shape into 12 balls. (For larger bagels, make only 8 balls.) Allow to rest for 5 minutes.
5. Bring 2 quarts of water to boil. Make a hole in each ball of dough and pull open about 2 inches, making a bagel shape. Place the shaped dough onto a cookie sheet and cover for 10 minutes.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Drop 2 or 3 bagels at a time into the boiling water for about 45 seconds, turning each once.
7. Drain cooked bagels on a wire rack. Mix egg white and water; brush tops with egg white mixture and top with optional toppings, if using. Place bagels on greased baking sheets.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Bagels will be lightly browned and shiny.
To make Everything Bagels, I put the following in a soup or pie plate – 1 Tablespoon each of dried, minced onion; dried, minced garlic; kosher salt; poppy seeds; and sesame seeds. Stir that up. After brushing each bagel with the egg wash (I used a whole egg instead of just the white), dip one side into the seed and spice mixture. Then bake as usual.
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
We each wrote a Haiku!
We have been doing a World Showcase Unit Study in our home school. This week, we are finishing up our studies of Japan. Today, we learned about the spread of Christianity in Japan after WWII, about Samurai warriors, and about Haiku. Here are the Haiku written by my children.
The sun is high up.
The moon does not show his face.
It is nice outside.
by Jeffrey, age 9
The heat of summer
The thorns sprout up near me
All snakes are scary
by William, age 10
There in October
Funny Bunny played her flute
She played her flute well
by Bob, age 12
Christmas comes again
Presents underneath the tree
Joy to all the world
by Trey, age 14
Thank you for wise words,
Wise men sitting quietly.
Words will live with me.
by Sarah, age 16
I wrote two, just for fun.
Ice cream, cold and wet
In my mouth and down my throat
Yummy, cooling treat!
Autumn leaves fall down
Red and gold lay on the ground
Crisp air brings new hope.
The sun is high up.
The moon does not show his face.
It is nice outside.
by Jeffrey, age 9
The heat of summer
The thorns sprout up near me
All snakes are scary
by William, age 10
There in October
Funny Bunny played her flute
She played her flute well
by Bob, age 12
Christmas comes again
Presents underneath the tree
Joy to all the world
by Trey, age 14
Thank you for wise words,
Wise men sitting quietly.
Words will live with me.
by Sarah, age 16
I wrote two, just for fun.
Ice cream, cold and wet
In my mouth and down my throat
Yummy, cooling treat!
Autumn leaves fall down
Red and gold lay on the ground
Crisp air brings new hope.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
You can win a Rosetta Stone Homeschool Edition Level 1 program
Now is the perfect time to give your child the gift of possibilities for the holidays with Rosetta Stone Homeschool — and you can WIN a Level 1 Homeschool program, language of your choice (valued at $249)!
Right now Rosetta Stone is having a special Holiday promotion on our Homeschool Edition program and we’d like you to help spread the word! Everyone can save up to $150 on Rosetta Stone Homeschool by visiting our website at http://www.RosettaStone.com/hsw1110.
By helping us spread the word you can win a Rosetta Stone Homeschool Edition Level 1 program, language of your choice, valued at $249.
This is a computer based curriculum and Rosetta Stone will also include a headset with microphone, and a supplementary “Audio Companion” CD so you can practice lessons in the car, on the go, or where-ever!
Students participate in life-like conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone incorporates listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing along with speaking and pronunciation lessons. For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program to allow parents to easily enroll up to ten students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, grade completed work (the program grades the work automatically as the students progress), and you can view and print reports for transcripts. Homeschooling a lot of kids at your house? This program is designed to enroll and track up to ten students (five users on two computers) and will work for nearly all ages — from beginning readers up to college students.
To win this program, copy these paragraphs and post them in (or as) your next blog post, and/OR post about this contest on your facebook page. Then go to the original page at http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2010/12/28/rosetta-stone-giveaway/
and leave a comment saying that you’ve posted about, or have linked to, the contest. Please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post, and good luck!
***
Right now Rosetta Stone is having a special Holiday promotion on our Homeschool Edition program and we’d like you to help spread the word! Everyone can save up to $150 on Rosetta Stone Homeschool by visiting our website at http://www.RosettaStone.com/hsw1110.
By helping us spread the word you can win a Rosetta Stone Homeschool Edition Level 1 program, language of your choice, valued at $249.
This is a computer based curriculum and Rosetta Stone will also include a headset with microphone, and a supplementary “Audio Companion” CD so you can practice lessons in the car, on the go, or where-ever!
Students participate in life-like conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone incorporates listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing along with speaking and pronunciation lessons. For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program to allow parents to easily enroll up to ten students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, grade completed work (the program grades the work automatically as the students progress), and you can view and print reports for transcripts. Homeschooling a lot of kids at your house? This program is designed to enroll and track up to ten students (five users on two computers) and will work for nearly all ages — from beginning readers up to college students.
To win this program, copy these paragraphs and post them in (or as) your next blog post, and/OR post about this contest on your facebook page. Then go to the original page at http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2010/12/28/rosetta-stone-giveaway/
and leave a comment saying that you’ve posted about, or have linked to, the contest. Please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post, and good luck!
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Christmas Letter 2010
Dear Friends and Family,
For those who missed last year’s letter, you can read it here: http://memoirable.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-letter-2009.html
Since you can read much of what we have done recently there, I will just tell you what we are thankful for this year.
In January, we learned about Disney’s Give a Day, Get a Day Promotion. We were able to sign up and in February, we did Spring Cleaning at a local school and earned free tickets to one Disney Park for 7 of us.
In March, a family at church gave us their Suburban. It needed a new transmission and we had enough from our tax refund to do it. What a great blessing! In April, we were blessed to take a one day trip to Beaufort, SC too see two of our nephews, Thomas and David Crum, graduate from Marine Boot Camp at Parris Island. In May, we travelled to Missouri to see another nephew, Nathaniel Crum, get married. It was a wonderful trip! Then, at the end of the month, our neice, Laura May (now Oliphant) got married in Simpsonville, SC. It was nice to go to a local wedding, seeing extended family without having to travel.
Through the summer, we enjoyed going to VBS, Six Flags over Georgia with free tickets the children had earned reading, free children’s movies at the local theaters, and swimming many times at Beth May’s pool. Also, members of our church treated us to seats at a local ballpark. The Greenville Drive are a farm team for the Boston Red Sox. We were able to go to two other Drive games using tickets earned donating blood and through the library reading program.
Many friends helped us afford our Disney Trip in November. We even had enough for John and Trey to go to Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, where Trey hopes to intern someday. Our entire trip to Disney was wonderful!
Through all this, God has provided friends, family, hugs, health, food, work, and money to get all we need and so much of what we just want. We feel blessed just to call Him Father, let alone Saviour.
For those who missed last year’s letter, you can read it here: http://memoirable.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-letter-2009.html
Since you can read much of what we have done recently there, I will just tell you what we are thankful for this year.
In January, we learned about Disney’s Give a Day, Get a Day Promotion. We were able to sign up and in February, we did Spring Cleaning at a local school and earned free tickets to one Disney Park for 7 of us.
In March, a family at church gave us their Suburban. It needed a new transmission and we had enough from our tax refund to do it. What a great blessing! In April, we were blessed to take a one day trip to Beaufort, SC too see two of our nephews, Thomas and David Crum, graduate from Marine Boot Camp at Parris Island. In May, we travelled to Missouri to see another nephew, Nathaniel Crum, get married. It was a wonderful trip! Then, at the end of the month, our neice, Laura May (now Oliphant) got married in Simpsonville, SC. It was nice to go to a local wedding, seeing extended family without having to travel.
Through the summer, we enjoyed going to VBS, Six Flags over Georgia with free tickets the children had earned reading, free children’s movies at the local theaters, and swimming many times at Beth May’s pool. Also, members of our church treated us to seats at a local ballpark. The Greenville Drive are a farm team for the Boston Red Sox. We were able to go to two other Drive games using tickets earned donating blood and through the library reading program.
Many friends helped us afford our Disney Trip in November. We even had enough for John and Trey to go to Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, where Trey hopes to intern someday. Our entire trip to Disney was wonderful!
Through all this, God has provided friends, family, hugs, health, food, work, and money to get all we need and so much of what we just want. We feel blessed just to call Him Father, let alone Saviour.
Merry Christmas!
The Moirs
The Moirs
Bobby (12), John, Jeffrey (8), Rebekah (3), Stitch, Trey (13), Marty, Sarah (15), & William (9)
Monday, November 15, 2010
Our Trip to Walt Disney World (Part One)
For a background to how we decided to go to Disney, see this post:
http://memoirable.blogspot.com/2010/03/disneys-give-day-get-day-program.html
Due to me singing in the Choir at Palmetto Hills Presbyterian Church that Sunday and John playing in the Praise Band at The Bridge Presbyterian Church, we postponed the trip to Monday, November 8. We started packing the 'Burb and trailer very early Monday morning, but still didn't get on the road till around 7:00am.
We arrived at FW around 5:00pm. Check in was quick and we were in the 1500 loop as requested. We were in site 1506 which was great.
My dh was nervous about getting the tent set up before dark, so I took the younger children for a walk. Who do we run into, but Chip and Dale!
We played kickball with them for a while, then went back to check on progress at the site. The tent was up, so dh sent me back to the Sing-along with all the children while he made cold BLT's for dinner. (Sorry, no pictures of the campsite or the food. Oops!)
Here we are waiting for the Sing-along to start.
Then, we were chosen to "wake-up" Chip and Dale for the Sing-along! We got a certificate commemerating our Magical Moment, an autographed picture of Chip and Dale, and our picture taken with them.
Soon after that, we went back to the site, had dinner, and put the youngest to bed. I took some of the children back to the movie for a while, but we were all tired from our long drive and headed to bed pretty early.
The next morning, after a shower in the lovely restrooms and a quick breakfast, I headed to the Outpost, as per a note that had been dropped off at our site the night before. It seems check-in was quick because they forgot to swipe my card and charge me for camping there. We quickly got that straightened out.
The plan for that day was to tour the hotels, leaving my dh at the site so he could rest his bad knee before our big day at MK. But he had other ideas. He took my oldest boy to Big Cat Rescue in Tampa. It was such a great treat for him! He hopes to intern there when he gets older and then have his own place like that eventually. (Again, sorry no pictures. I had the camera.)
The rest of us headed for the Marina, with a quick stop at the playground.
We hopped on a boat and headed to Wilderness Lodge.
First thing we saw at Wilderness Lodge was a rabbit.
Then some ducks.
And, of course, the geyser.
We also liked seeing the pool. When we checked in, they had told the Meadow Swimming Pool was closed for the week, so we could use the Wilderness Lodge Pool instead.
Inside the lobby, we took pictures by a "gen-u-ine" totem pole.
My kids, kidding around at the stream.
We then got back on a boat and headed for the Contemporary.
They had a speed boat set up for pictures, and my dc couldn't resist.
We found more photo ops outside. (Sorry for the sideways picture!)
From there, we took the monorail to the Polynesian. Aloha, Cousin. Only one photo from there.
I had read that going from the Polynesian to the Grand Floridian was a nice walk. Not so true when you have five tired and hungry kids and you are carrying a big bag with food for all of you, plus the sweatshirts most of them no longer wanted to wear.
Still, we got there and found a nice place for lunch.
After lunch, we wandered around the hotel and then caught the monorail to the Magic Kingdom and then the boat back to Fort Wilderness. After a rest period enforced by Mean Ole Mom, we changed into swimsuits and headed for Wilderness Lodge.
Swimming was great, esp. the waterslide. I made everyone get out before it got dark and we took the bus back to Fort Wilderness. Hint: The back seats of the bus are heated from the engine. Very nice when you are cold and wet.
We got dressed and headed to the Sing-Along to wait for dh to return. Tonight, we played Duck, Duck, Goose with Chip and Dale. (sorry for the blurry picture)
After hamburgers for dinner, dh took the children to see Finding Nemo (not the advertised Sword in the Stone, which they promised to show the next night) while I put the little one to bed.
More in next post.
http://memoirable.blogspot.com/2010/03/disneys-give-day-get-day-program.html
Due to me singing in the Choir at Palmetto Hills Presbyterian Church that Sunday and John playing in the Praise Band at The Bridge Presbyterian Church, we postponed the trip to Monday, November 8. We started packing the 'Burb and trailer very early Monday morning, but still didn't get on the road till around 7:00am.
We arrived at FW around 5:00pm. Check in was quick and we were in the 1500 loop as requested. We were in site 1506 which was great.
My dh was nervous about getting the tent set up before dark, so I took the younger children for a walk. Who do we run into, but Chip and Dale!
We played kickball with them for a while, then went back to check on progress at the site. The tent was up, so dh sent me back to the Sing-along with all the children while he made cold BLT's for dinner. (Sorry, no pictures of the campsite or the food. Oops!)
Here we are waiting for the Sing-along to start.
Then, we were chosen to "wake-up" Chip and Dale for the Sing-along! We got a certificate commemerating our Magical Moment, an autographed picture of Chip and Dale, and our picture taken with them.
Soon after that, we went back to the site, had dinner, and put the youngest to bed. I took some of the children back to the movie for a while, but we were all tired from our long drive and headed to bed pretty early.
The next morning, after a shower in the lovely restrooms and a quick breakfast, I headed to the Outpost, as per a note that had been dropped off at our site the night before. It seems check-in was quick because they forgot to swipe my card and charge me for camping there. We quickly got that straightened out.
The plan for that day was to tour the hotels, leaving my dh at the site so he could rest his bad knee before our big day at MK. But he had other ideas. He took my oldest boy to Big Cat Rescue in Tampa. It was such a great treat for him! He hopes to intern there when he gets older and then have his own place like that eventually. (Again, sorry no pictures. I had the camera.)
The rest of us headed for the Marina, with a quick stop at the playground.
We hopped on a boat and headed to Wilderness Lodge.
First thing we saw at Wilderness Lodge was a rabbit.
Then some ducks.
And, of course, the geyser.
We also liked seeing the pool. When we checked in, they had told the Meadow Swimming Pool was closed for the week, so we could use the Wilderness Lodge Pool instead.
Inside the lobby, we took pictures by a "gen-u-ine" totem pole.
My kids, kidding around at the stream.
We then got back on a boat and headed for the Contemporary.
They had a speed boat set up for pictures, and my dc couldn't resist.
We found more photo ops outside. (Sorry for the sideways picture!)
From there, we took the monorail to the Polynesian. Aloha, Cousin. Only one photo from there.
I had read that going from the Polynesian to the Grand Floridian was a nice walk. Not so true when you have five tired and hungry kids and you are carrying a big bag with food for all of you, plus the sweatshirts most of them no longer wanted to wear.
Still, we got there and found a nice place for lunch.
After lunch, we wandered around the hotel and then caught the monorail to the Magic Kingdom and then the boat back to Fort Wilderness. After a rest period enforced by Mean Ole Mom, we changed into swimsuits and headed for Wilderness Lodge.
Swimming was great, esp. the waterslide. I made everyone get out before it got dark and we took the bus back to Fort Wilderness. Hint: The back seats of the bus are heated from the engine. Very nice when you are cold and wet.
We got dressed and headed to the Sing-Along to wait for dh to return. Tonight, we played Duck, Duck, Goose with Chip and Dale. (sorry for the blurry picture)
After hamburgers for dinner, dh took the children to see Finding Nemo (not the advertised Sword in the Stone, which they promised to show the next night) while I put the little one to bed.
More in next post.
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