Showing their Longhorn spirit!
Posted by christy on 19 Dec 2012 | Tagged as: Family and Friends
Eisbahn!!
Posted by christy on 25 Nov 2012 | Tagged as: Good Stuff
Come iceskate in Fredericksburg! Eisbahn is open now through January 5th. Check out the website at www.skateinfred.com.
Worked our shift yesterday. Very cool. 
Happy??? Black Friday?
Posted by christy on 23 Nov 2012 | Tagged as: Family and Friends
New babies!!
Posted by christy on 23 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: The Chiggens
See the new baby chick hatched today! That is not its “real” mother but just one of the hens that sat on the batch of eggs. Four total hatched today (so far)!!
Two Dogs
Posted by christy on 23 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: Family and Friends, Other Animals
Big Sky Coffee Cake
Posted by christy on 16 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: Recipes
This recipe was given to me about 25 years ago by a co-worker at KPMG from Montana. As excellent now as it was then!
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. almond extract
3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 large can pie filling (whatever flavor floats your boat)
Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 Tbsp. milk
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together butter and shortening. Add sugar and beat well. Add eggs, vanilla and almond extract and mix well. Add flour and baking powder and mix until blended.
Spread 2/3 of the dough in the bottom of a rectangular jelly roll pan lined with parchment paper. Spread pie filling on top. Dot with remaining dough. Bake 35-45 minutes.
Combine powdered sugar and milk mixing well. Drizzle over the top of the coffee cake and enjoy!!
Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies
Posted by christy on 15 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: Recipes
These cookies are amazing! They stay soft (at least for 36 hours – haven’t had one last longer than that yet), and are super easy to make.
Ingredients:
Dough-
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened pumpkin puree (1/2 can)
1 large egg
3 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
To roll in-
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Mix together the butter, shortening, sugars, pumpkin, and egg, beat well. Add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and mix until well-blended.
Chill dough for about 30 minutes (or cheat like me and throw it in the freezer for about 10 minutes). Roll into balls the size of small walnuts. ** I use a small scoop instead of rolling by hand. MUCH faster and easier. **
In a separate bowl, mix 1/2 cup sugar with 1 Tablespoon cinnamon and 1/2 tsp ground ginger (do not leave out the ginger – adds an amazing flavor). Roll dough balls in sugar mixture until completely covered.
Place dough balls about 2″ apart on ungreased cookie sheet. ** I line mine with parchment. **
Bake 7-9 minutes until lightly browned, but still soft. (Exactly 8 minutes in my oven.)
Makes about 5-6 dozen cookies.
Enjoy!!
Scary in the kitchen!
Posted by christy on 15 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: Family and Friends
First and Second at the Fair
Posted by christy on 05 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: Family and Friends
Here is Erin with her first place green Bantam eggs and her second place dark brown Cuckoo Maran eggs.
Third place in the County Fair
Posted by christy on 04 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: Family and Friends
Travis at (or is it in?) the beach!
Posted by christy on 11 Aug 2012 | Tagged as: Family and Friends
