For my sons wedding rehearsal dinner the girls made bars and cookies. I was trying to find a recipe that I have never made before. I reach for The Farm Chicks..."Country Living The Farm Chicks In The Kitchen" cookbook and found a quick recipe to make...nancy's nutmeg coffee cake...and it was out of this world. I did have to substitute pecans for the walnuts because I did not have any on hand.
Mine of course did not look like the cake in the book...But, it was still wonderful.
As I posted before this is a wonderful book not only for the recipes, and the first one I made turned out to be a yummy one. One that I will definitely make again, but it's also a wonderful read as well.
Life on the homestead is still busy...We bought some blueberry bushes last night and I can't wait until they start producing fruit. We also planted a couple of grape vines last week. Jim will be making a fence of some sort for them to climb on. The asparagus is doing great despite the flooding, and all 50 plants have sprouted. I think we might have gotten a few more because last count there were 51 or 52 plants. Each plant has 2 or more shoots coming out of them. Yippee!!!!!
Today I'm heading out to the raspberry bushes, as I want to get to the ripe ones before the birds do. This year I'm hoping to get enough for a pie. I planted 2 black berry bushes and they are going to produce some berries this year. Another Yippee!!!!!. I hope to get a few more this weekend as I'm sure they will be just about giving them away. My favorite store had some still the other day.
I hope you all have a wonderful day today. I have lots to do on my to do list.
Life on the homestead is still busy...We bought some blueberry bushes last night and I can't wait until they start producing fruit. We also planted a couple of grape vines last week. Jim will be making a fence of some sort for them to climb on. The asparagus is doing great despite the flooding, and all 50 plants have sprouted. I think we might have gotten a few more because last count there were 51 or 52 plants. Each plant has 2 or more shoots coming out of them. Yippee!!!!!
Today I'm heading out to the raspberry bushes, as I want to get to the ripe ones before the birds do. This year I'm hoping to get enough for a pie. I planted 2 black berry bushes and they are going to produce some berries this year. Another Yippee!!!!!. I hope to get a few more this weekend as I'm sure they will be just about giving them away. My favorite store had some still the other day.
I hope you all have a wonderful day today. I have lots to do on my to do list.
I always enjoy your blog and reading about your family. I'm glad the wedding went ok. The bride & groom looks beautiful and the B&W photos on the blog you linked to are absolutely gorgeous!!
Posted by: Dot | Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 11:38 AM
That looks so good! I have so many cookbooks, but this one might be worth checking out.
Posted by: Zaroga | Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 03:12 PM
I'm so envious of your raspberry bushes. We had a great raspberry patch in an old house -- it took me a few tries to get them going, but when they finally did we had enough to make yummy raspberry-cherry jam every year. (The goofy lady who bought the house ripped them all out!) I'd love to have some blueberry bushes -- do they require full sun???
Posted by: thimbleanna | Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Judy,
I ordered this book and received it but have not had a chance to do anything but peek in it. Your cake looks better than the one in the book!
Posted by: Gina | Friday, July 03, 2009 at 05:26 PM