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recipe

Last Friday night Becky, Matt and Melissa DeFriez came over and we made donuts! I looked up a recipe online for a Krispy Kreme copycat recipe. I made the dough before I went to work in the morning as it was suppossed to rise twice. I just left it set all day and hoped it would be OK when I got home. To my delight it was! We rolled out the dough and cut out donuts with a donut cutter that I had purchased at Kitchen Kneads. (my favorite kitchen store in Logan for sure) I heated the oil and threw in a donut hole and hot oil splattered all over my hand burning it in three places. The burns on my pointer finger and palm are fading, but I have a very ugly scar on my middle finger. My burns hurt more than any burns I have ever received in my life so I spent the rest of the time that the kids were there with my hand under cold water. we burnt several donut holes and a few donuts and then we got to a stage where we did it right but we they came out doughy. Then finally pefection we got the donuts JUST RIGHT!!!!! The donuts wer so yummy and the glaze, well you just have to make them yourself and see.We made lots of donuts and the kids took a huge plate full of donuts home. I brought a plate over to my friend Shelli and her families house and Shelli let me have some aloe vera. I am so glad I covered my hand with aloe vera and reaplyed several times. I think it is the only think that helped me make it through the night. I am going to attach the recipe I found online,



Doughnuts
2 cups scalded milk
1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup sugar, divided
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons yeast
4 eggs (beaten)
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
7 cups sifted flour
Glaze
3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup cold water
Directions
1Mix together ingredients for glaze
.2Melt butter in hot milk, add 1 tsp sugar and salt.
Allow to cool.
3Beat in yeast, nutmeg, eggs, remaining sugar, and 3 cups flour.
4Add rest of flour (dough will be sticky).
5Knead for 5 minutes then allow to rise for 1-1 1/2 hours
.6Roll out dough, cut into shapes.
7Do not re-roll dough,
then allow to rise for 30-45 minutes
.8Heat oil to 365° and fry 1 - 2 minutes on each side or until brown.
Toss in the doughnut holes first
, let those cook, and then proceed to cooking the donuts.
9Let them cool on a paper towel - helps get the glaze to stick.
10Dip in warm glaze.

As you know I just let it rise all day while I went to work. I WISH I was at the point in my life where I could just be home all day baking... one day I will be then there will be a lot more of these blogs!

Be careful with the oil so you don't burn yourself will put pictures up very soon I promise!~

I got this recipe off recipezaar or something like that

field trip

So I had quite the day on Thurs. I went out, got in my car to go to work and the battery was dead. I had left my headlights on all night. Lucky for me some Lewiston City workers were nearby and that was fixed in a jiffy. So I started out to go to work and in Richmond my car started driving really well lop-sided. I had a strong feeling I had a flat tire. I did not want to believe it though I had had a flat tire just three weeks ago on the driver front. This was on the passenger front. So I just kept driving hoping against all hope that I would be able to make to Qwest THEN figure out what to do. I made it through Smithfield and was probably in Hyde Park when the last of the tire went. I pulled in to a parking lot of place that makes factory homes and looked at my tire it looked like a wild animal had attacked my tire with its claws. I called my friend Lexie and she called her husband Davey ( who I also work with) Davey and another co-worker Rory came and fixed my tire lickety-split. In my stress I had called in and said I would not be at work until noon. It was only 9:15. So I went and got my tire fixed at a place called Jack's tire and oil in Logan. They only charged 21$ Which was much better than the 80$ I payed for the tire I replaced three weeks ago. I am now convinced of two things,
1. There is something in my driveway that is making me get flat tires. I am going to go to Smithfield Implement and buy something that picks up metal to try and get whatever it is.
2. Anytime I get a flat tire I am going to get if fixed ASAP.
I also am thinking VERY SERIOUSLY about triple A. Maybe I would get on first name basis with the triple A people, kind of like my friend Beth calls the cab company she is like "hi I need a cab", and they said is this "Huntington Square" I would be like "um hi triple A" and they would say "yes Keli where are you this time?"
I ran a few errands I went and bought some cleaning supplies and while at the store I realized that cleaning products are marketed to women and well it works. Like products these days smell like mountain fresh air and so many bottles are purple. If you actually look down the cleaning aisle and look it is like a purple explosion. I have to admit I bought several things because of the smells and the pretty bottles so well the strategy paid off. I told this to my friend Katie that evening and she also pointed out that all the cleaning commercials are all about WOMEN cleaning. I had never realized how sexist the cleaning supply market was until now. I guess they don't want men to clean or even help women clean. This woman needs to clean I have been deep-cleaning for two days now and I have not gotten that far. I guess you don't progress as fast when you are really cleaning. Cleaning though is worth it. As I said in the past two days I have not gotten far, but as I look back on what I have done cleaning wise and the growing pile of things I am getting rid of... I can't help but smile.
So I got to work had a great day there;which was made even better when my friend Katie picked me up at work. We drove to Preston,Idaho and went to the Oneida Narrows Reservoir. You drive all the way through Preston when you get to Burger King and the road splits you go to the right you pass the golf course and well you just keep going and going and going until you get to a Hwy 36 take a right there. Then you drive and drive and drive until you see a sign that says Oneida Narrows and you take a left.
You will then see a house on the left where an enterprising family has set up a soda machine in their front yard with a sign that says "cold drinks" so there you go if you ever need an idea of how to make some extra dough, set up a soda machine in your yard with a sign that says "cold drinks" it is like a twenty-four lemonade stand you don't even have to man.
the Oneida Narrows is a stretch of river that you can tube down. Katie actually did this on a date when she was in HS. I want to do it. We stopped at the first pretty place we saw and took some really cool pictures in a huge pipe and on the rocks in the water. The pictures came out really good. We also found a dead bird that looked like the only reason that it died is that it just gave up and crashed into a rock. We also saw a dead fish that also looked like the only reason that it died is that it just swam up on a rock and died. We took pictures of both.
We then drove on until Katie saw a tree with a really cool branch. She climbed out on it, I was to scared but I took some very cute pictures of her on the branch
We then drove on a bit and thought we had best turn around so that we could get back to Preston in time to get something to eat. We turned around at a cattle guard. I looked up and saw a HUGE CAVE! Yes a cave! we were like is that a CAVE???!! and wow it is HUGE! we saw a little trail leading up to the cave and decided we needed to take it. It was about 7:30pm at night as we started hiking up the little trail. I had on flip flops and almost every step I took my foot flipped out of my flip flop. I protested several times. Katie said that this was my idea that I could take off my shoes and keep walking. I once again huffed and puffed my way up a trail. We stopped once on a black rock and took some pics and forged on.all of a sudden RIGHT in front of me was the cave!! the hike was only about ten minutes max and would have been shorter if we had been wearing the right kind of shoes. When the cave appeared around the corner it was like we were in Moab. Where you hike for a short amount of time and then see something huge. The entrance to this cave was just enormous. It was getting dark and we could hear bats wings flapping.... bats making what ever bat noise they make and owls hooting I am SERIOUS!!!! I felt like we were in a Scooby Doo episode and I was Shaggy and Scooby combined ZOINKS! I also had a bit of the Cowardly Lion thrown in, I made Katie take a picture of me and how scared I was because I am serious this is the most scary thing I have done (except for dating) in a long time. Katie actually stood in the entrance of the cave and I took some pics. There are two holes where you can go farther back in the cave, neither of us had any interest in doing this with all the bats and owls making so much noise. I was also so scared I pictured in my mind a big cougar or something walking out from one of those holes. After we snapped some pictures. We started the trek down. it was so steep. Not very good in the shoes that we were wearing Katie kind of did a crab walk down I on the other hand well just put my jacket on the ground and slid down like it was an alpine slide. My jacket was so dirty that when we got in the car and I put it on the floor a big cloud of dust emanated from it.
We ate dinner at Mis Amores in Preston. I like that restaraunt Katie thought it was just OK
Then headed back to Utah :)

field trip

This weekend I went hiking in Logan Canyon with my friend Paul. We hiked to the Jardine Juniper Tree it is a ten mile hike round trip.As with any journey it was great to get to our destination but also great to finish...Like check us out we hiked that!

I met Paul at his house in Logan at a little after eight in the morning on Sat. We got up to the trailhead in Logan Canyon close to nine AM. It was easy to find, you just drive up Logan Canyon until you see the sign that says Jardine Juniper trail. When Paul and I parked at the trailhead we saw a group of people on horseback starting up the trail. One of the horses started bucking like he was a bucking bronco at the rodeo. The old man riding him just held on and the horse fell over and the old man fell over. Paul and I thought that was a bit scary. We did not get out of the car until we knew where the horse was, I mean not tryin to go on a hike with a wild horse on the loose. We did not see them the rest of the hike until we got back to the car, they said they took another trail... So Paul and I started on the trail. I was not the prettiest trail I have ever been on. but the higher we got the more breathtaking the views of the canyon. The hike was not pretty where Paul and were walking but where ever I could SEE was absolutly beautiful. I really liked this hike because the our ascent was so gradual we had a number of switchbacks there was never a point in the hike where I thought WHOA CAN I MAKE IT UP THAT???? I was huffing and puffing like I was a big bad wolf though. On the way up we ran into some really out of shape mountain bikers. We saw them once and they said they were on their way up.... we never saw them again. We think that they gave up. We also saw an old man RUNNING down he had to be AT LEAST SIXTY. I thought wow I am not in that good of shape NOW!!! i would LOVE to be in that good of shape THEN!!!! At one point this man appeared on the trail he asked us how we were doing we said fine and he said he had "bushwacked" his way to where we were, we were REALLy high up at this point to like um OK dude I have no idea why unless you are looking for places to hunt but hey go ahead... We ran into an older couple that was all decked out they even had hiking poles they told us some other cool places to hike in Logan Canyon and took a picture of Paul and I. Paul and I took several cool pictures of us with the scenary. It was just so neat to be that high up. When we arrived at the Jardine Juniper the view there is .... JUST AMAZING you are so high up and there you are with this tree that is over 320o years old. Only the top of it is still alive and has leaves. There was an observation deck with a box to leave a message that you had been there. I found pages dating back to 2002 of people that had been there and left messages. I wrote that I loved the scenary and Paul wrote that he love the grasshoppers...

The young men and young women in the Logan Spanish branch were there. One girl Jeanette took some really cool pictures of Paul and I. I posted the pics on facebook and myspace, when you see them comment please! We ate lunch up by the tree and started back down. On the way there we took a "scenic route" on the way back we took the "shady route" we saw another group of horse back riders we saw several mountain bikers that were really struggling on the way up and just cruising on the way down. the mountain bikers made it up and down before Paul and I even made it down. I said to all of them did you go all the way to the tree they all said yes, one said did you, I said yes and we have 100 pictures to prove it! Actually we had about sixty. Also at the tree there was also a box with papers and writing utensils where we had to sign in that we made it to the top. I have said that the hike was beautiful and the tree was neat and the pictures are so cool. I also want to say that Paul and I talked almost straight from 8:30 AM until almost 2:00Pm Paul is one of the NICEST guys I have ever met... He is just a really really nice guy. I really enjoyed talking to him. Paul asked me when we got in the car if my legs hurt, I said no not at all.WELL when I got out of the car at the thrift store I volenteer at in Smithfield... whoa my legs were like Jello. I am just now on Tuesday able to walk normal...I managed to volenteer at Somebodys Attic for a couple of hours. I got some really cute kids books. That night I went to my friends Davey and Lexie's house. I read their daughter Emryie the cute kids books around five times each:). I then watched Failure to Launch with Davey and Lexie. It was an OK movie since it had Matthew McConaghy and Riley from National Treasure in it .... other than that well um.... yeah

So that was my day and my hike let me know what you think! I am still so happy when I think of this day:)

recipe

So today I took it upon myself to make a cookie bouquet. I had Becky, Matt and Melissa DeFriez over to help me. I made some sugar cookie dough. While it was firming up in the fridge we decorated our pots with the limited amount of paint that I have. When the cookie dough was ready we took it out of the fridge and it was very crumbly. Thank goodness Kathy was home, she put some milk in my dough and made it all better. So we rolled out the dough and cut it out into three shapes, stars, hearts and flowers. we then put the stick on the cookie and put more dought around the stick and baked it. We had several fall on the ground and fall of the stick... BUT we were each able to get a bouquet in each of our pots! The kids used most of the cute decorater gel I had bought by the time that I got around to wanting to frost mine. Mine still look sort of cute... sorta cute. I got some gravel from out of the driveway and we put that in each of our pots to hold up the sticks. This whole process took around FOUR hours!!! in fact I still have some cookies out there that need to be frosted.... The kids sister Julie came and got them and they were able to ride home with their bouquets on their laps. I have to bring my bouquet all the way to Logan tomorrow. Then over to my friend Kyle's so I can give it to him. I hope that it can withstand all of that. I have little plastic bags on each of the cookies now. I just hope that it can stand coming with me to Qwest and then to Kyle's job. So after all this I can say that I have made a cookie bouquet. I don't think I want to make another anytime soon but I sure am glad that I have that expierience under my belt. I mean not everyone can say that they have made a cookie bouquet!!! I am going to mail my friend Elaine and my friends Keturah and Shalisa some sticks so they can try and make their own bouquets.... and I sure do hope that Kyle LOVES his bouquet!

Michelle Bommarito’s Sugar Cookies For Sticks3 c. all-purpose flour1 teaspoon baking powder2 sticks butter, unsalted, softened1 cup granulated sugar1 large egg 1/2 t. kosher salt1 teaspoon vanilla extractdash of almond extractSift together the flour and baking powder. In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the egg, salt and both extracts.Slowly add flour mixture (1 cup at a time) and stir until incorporatedForm the dough into a disc and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Roll the dough onto a lightly floured surface to approximately 5/8″ thick. Cut the cookies into shapes and place the cut cookie shape on a parchment lined cookie; Poke a stick into cookies.Bake the cookies for approximately 8-10 minutes or until the edges begin to turn golden brown in color. Remove cookies from the oven and allow tocool on a wire rack for 5 minutes.Royal Icing 1 pound confectioner’s sugar5 T meringue powder or 1/4 cup pasteurized egg whitesIce cold water according to desired consistency and 1 teaspoon vanillaStir together, using as much water as needed for desired consistency

That is the recipe that I used... like I said I must have used to much flour or something I found this recipe online....

So I made that
we decorated our pots
we found it was easier if we just put the stick on the dough and then just put dough over the stick
we baked them for about 15 minutes
let cool for about 15 minutes
frosted the flowers, stars and hearts
stuck them in the flowerpots
any questions or comments just ask me

I will post some pictures as soon as I can figure out how to get pictures off my camera!