Ratatouille vegetable dish

Ratatouille

I make this vegetable dish when the garden is over flowing with zucchini , bell peppers, yellow peppers, and tomatoes.

Ingredients:

tomatoes sliced

bell peppers sliced

onions sliced

yellow squash sliced

zucchini sliced

eggplant sliced

crushed garlic

salt and pepper to taste

olive oil

 Bake 400 degrees

1 hour

Slice all vegetables place in bowl add garlic salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle olive oil over everything tossing in a bowl making sure all is generously soaked in oil. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese.

Line up veggies in a 9x13 pan sprayed with vegetable spray. Make sure different vegetables touch each other.  Bake  uncovered you should see caramelizing on the veggies.

Frosted Zucchini Bread

Zucchini harvest in full bloom

ingredients: 

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

3 eggs

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup apple sauce

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups grated zuchinni

2 1/2 cup flour all purpose 

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 

1 teaspoon salt 

1/2 nutmeg

ingredient for frosting:

1 8 oz cream cheese soften

1/2 cup butter soften

3 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Pre heat oven 350

Bake 35 to 40 minutes

9x13 pan size spray with nonstick oil

In large bowl beat ,eggs,vegetable oil, applesauce, sugar,  vanilla, and brown sugar.set to the side.

Dry ingredients go in  an other bow l.

Flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, Fold into wet ingredients adding zucchini. Pour into 9x13 pan, and bake.

Frosting

Blend butter and cream cheese until smooth, add powdered sugar and vanilla.

Knitted Braided Cable Throw

Supplies:

Finished size 50"x 60"

Yarn

3000 yards bone color yarn

Needle Size

US 13 circular needles

ABBREVIATIONS

k knit

p purl

sl slip stitch

cn cable needle

sts stitches

c/o cast on

bo/bind off

Top boarder

Cast on 147 stitches

2x2 ribbing for 10 rows

ROW 1-  K6 [K3, P9, K3] REPEAT 9 TIMES K6

ROW 2-  K6 [P3, K9, P3] REPEAT 9 TIMES K6

ROW 3-  K6, [K3, P9, K3] REPEAT 9 TIMES K6

ROW 4- K6 [P3, K3,SLIP NEXT 3 STICTHES TO CHAIN NEEDLE HOLDER, AND HOLD TO THE BACK, KNIT 3 ,THEN KNIT THE 3 FROM THE CHAIN HOLDER NEEDLE. P3] REPEAT 9 TIMES, K6

ROW 5- K6 [K3, P9, K3] REPEAT 9 TIMES K6

ROW 6- K6 [P3, K9, P3] REPEAT 9 TIMES K6

ROW 7- K6 [K3, P9, K3] REPEAT 9 TIMES K6

ROW 8- K6 [[P3, SLIP NEXT 3 STITCHES TO CHAIN NEEDLE HOLDER TO THE FRONT K3, THEN K3 FROM CHAIN HOLDER, K3, P3] REPEAT 9 TIMES, K6 

REPEAT THESE 8 ROWS UNTIL THROW MEASURES 58' FROM CAST ON STITCHES.

BOTTOM BORDER-2'X2'  RIBBING FOR 10 ROWS. 

BIND OFF WEAVE IN THE ENDS, TRY TO CHANGE YARNS AT THE END OF ROWS.

Pattern created by Gena Shaffer found on Raverly.

Peppa Pig Theme Birthday Party

This cake was so easy to make.

frost with ganache in between the layer. 

Flood the top with ganache. 

 Glue kit kat bars on the side with ganache.

Place shredded coconut in  a baggie with green food coloring for grass.

Place rubber Peppa Pig toys for decorations.

My daughter in law Stacy did a beautiful job decorating!

Cute little Peppa Pig ears attached to her hat. 

Peppa Pig Pinata

My grand daughter Rosalynn adores Peppa Pig everything Peppa!

I will show you how I made Peppa Pig pinata for her.

Supplies:

 news paper

pink , and red  crepe party streamers

wire

1/3 cups flour

2 cupswater

white paper for eyes

1 dowel for star wand

card stock for star, eyes, and cheeks 

2 balloons one for head one for the body

paper cup for snout

Tape

PASTE RECIPE

2 cups water placed in small sauce pan. 1/3 cup flour mix well. Place on stove top till thickens , and comes to a boil. Remove from heat let cool.This is your glue for the whole project.

Blow up balloon one the size you want for body, the other balloon size you want for head.

Cut news paper into 1x8 inch strips, paste onto balloons. 

 Five layers deep.  

Let dry over night. 

They will dry hard like a shell.  

Take a sharp knife poke into harden shell popping balloon underneath. 

For the larger balloon cut an opening 3x4 inches wide big enough to fit your hand inside.

Do the same for the head.

Wire the head to the body. 

Place wire for arms and legs making them twice as long as the finished legs and arms.

Crumple news paper to make arms and legs wrapping the extra length of wire around to hold newspaper in place.

Place in large bowl makes easier to maneuver.

Tape paper cup for snout.

Peppa Pig only has 3 fingers on her hands.

Roll part of crepe streamers in to 4 inches around your hand.

cut 1/8 of inch slits all the way across, 

Curl bottoms and paste to pinata.

Made crown, star, eyes, and cheeks out of card stock, 

Fill with candy when done. Enjoy!

Check out my dinosaur and Elmo pinatas. I have better details on the construction.