Whole Wheat Blueberry Scones Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 30 min.

Yield: 12 Servings

Ingredients

• 3-3/4 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/4 cup raw brown sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/3 cup cold butter, cubed
• 1-3/4 cups buttermilk
• 1-1/2 cups fresh blueberries
• 1 tablespoon sugar

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Directions

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder and baking soda. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in buttermilk just until moistened. Stir in blueberries. Turn onto a floured surface; gently knead 10 times.
• Transfer dough to a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Pat into a 9-in. circle. Cut into 12 wedges, but do not separate. Sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake at 375° for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. Yield: 1 dozen.

Facebook Prayer!

Starting at the beginning of this year started praying for my friends on facebook.  I decided to start at the beginning of my friends and prayer through to the end, doing at least five a day.  Sometimes I feel lead to prayer for a couple more a day.  It is such a blessing for those that I pray for and it seems like most of the time they just happen to need prayer that day (okay, not just happen, I am sure it is a God thing.)  But I feel that it is more of a blessing to me.  To be able to pray for others is so uplifting and my friends are so thankful!  Most of the time you hear back from at least one a day, if not more.  Sometimes they tell you what they need prayers for, sometimes it is just I really need that right now, and other times it is just to say thank-you.  I try to pray for them as early as I can during the day, so I can say a little prayer up for them throughout the day when I think about them.  That does not happen everyday and I feel bad when it is in the evening that I finally get around to it.  It can be so uplifting on all ends.  If you have the chance to do this challenge, it will mean so much to you!  There is power in Prayer!

Day 100

97 - Eric has learned how to make some flat bread and it is always gone within 30 min. of taking it out of the oven.  It only has 3 ingredients:  1 cup whole wheat flour, 2 Tbs. applesauce, and 4 Tbs water.  Roll it out thin and bake it for about 20min at 400 degrees.

98 - Still making crackers and letting them eat then all up.  I can't keep them around for one day!  Even though I always make two batches.

99- Made some homemade tuna and noodle bake.  The girls loved it!

100 - We did it and have learned a lot.  Something will stick with us and how we will try to keep eating.  Some things will go on the way side.  I will try to let you know soon what some of the things are that we learned, but that will be for another night when it is not so late.

Day 96

Day 95 - The children loved the muffins!  When we got home from church we had a roast with potatoes and carrots in the oven waiting for us!  Was it ever good!  I think that is one of my favorite meals!

Day 96 - Our fist day of getting any snow.  Of course the children had to go out and play with it for a little while!  They are also use to getting some hot cocoa when they come inside, and so they asked for some today.  So after a little research and a little more here is what I came up with:
Homemade Hot Chocolate

Ingredients:

• 3 1/2 cups milk (whole milk for creamier)
• 1/2 cup heavy cream (or milk)
• 8 ounces chocolate, preferably dark
• 3 teaspoons maple syrup or natural sweetener of choice
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon sea salt

Directions:
1) Chop the chocolate very finely.
2) In a medium saucepan, bring the milk and cream to a low simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally.
3) Add the chocolate, maple syrup, vanilla, and salt. Whisk vigorously until all of the chocolate has melted. Cook for an additional 4 minutes, whisking constantly.
4) Serve with maple whipped cream (recipe follows) if desired.
Serves 4 generously
Maple Whipped Cream
Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2 teaspoons maple syrup (more if you like your whipped cream very sweet)
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
Place all ingredients in a large bowl and beat until stiff.

I did not make the cream!  But I would have loved to try it with it!  And I also used 60% cocoa chips!  So my children ended up getting their hot chocolate and asking for more!

Day 94

Day 91 -

Day 92 - We tried a little something differant for our meal!  I made homemade mac-n-cheese and then put some cooked broccli in it.  I was going to put carrets in it too, but ran out of time to get them cut up and cooked.  At first the children would not eat any for it was differant, but after they tried it, they eat it up and asked for more!

Day 93 - Homemade beef stew!  Yummy!

Day 94 - So today was the Christmas parade here in town!  Oh no!  Here comes the candy!  Ya!  Three of my children are in the parade on the churches float!  One young one watching the float  and We didn't come home with any candy!  I liked that!  Have had the oven on for supper tonight, so I went a head and started some muffins for church tomorrow!  We are having Whole wheat pumpkin-applesauce muffins!  They sound good, but I will have to wait for about another 15 min. for them to come out of the oven.  I also just cooked a squash in the oven, so I used that instead of pumpkin.  Anyways here is the recipe if anyone else would like to try it!

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 cup raw brown sugar
• 1/3 cup fructose
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1/2 cup pumpkin
• 1/3 cup buttermilk (1/3 c. milk plus 1 tsp. lemon juice - let it stand for 5 minutes!)
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1/4 cup golden raisins (optional)
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups, or line the cups with paper muffin liners.
2. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice; set aside. Combine the brown sugar, fructose, oil, applesauce, pumpkin, buttermilk, and beaten eggs and mix until well blended. Pour the pumpkin mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until combined. Fold in the raisins and pecans, if desired.
3. Divide the batter evenly in the prepared muffin pan. Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool the muffin pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes before removing the muffins from the pan.

30 Day Shred!

As I am writing this, I just got done with the 30 Day Shred!  It was a challenge that I took on along with some other ladies for the month of November!It was a great workout and it helped get me moving!  One thing that I have noticed from doing it is that I have more energy.  When it is getting towards the evening when I just want to sit down and relax, I still have power to fool around with the children.  It has also helped get the children motivated into doing some workouts!  Even though I am done with the 30 Days, I think I need to keep doing something so I just don't go back to where I was.  I will take a couple days off during the week though.  Any little movement helps out, even if it is tapping your foot when you are sitting down, to dancing around the living room with your children.  How my children love that!  Thank you to the ladies that kept me moving and kept me going.  Good Luck at finishing up.

Dump Truck birthday party!

For my son's third birthday we had a construction party!  The cake was a dump truck holding dirt in the back.  I had made signs and put them up around the house.  I used black and yellow table settings.  And we played two games that my son just loved and kept wanting to play over and over again.  The first one was a construction site obstacle course:  I cut cardboard into stripes so they were kinda like boards, and we had some cones set about.  They had to walk the cardboard and go around the cones.  The second game was tossing little cones, that I picked up at the Dollar Tree, into the back of a dump truck.  We also had hats that we let people write on!