Snow!!!

It's still pouring snow outside. The snowdrops, irises, and crocus are covered. I hope they make it. A couple of people requested the recipe for the Irish Soda Bread:

4 cups flour
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
1 pint sour cream
1 cup raisins

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease two 8 x 4 inch loaf pans.
Mix the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add the eggs, sour cream and raisins and mix until just combined. Distribute batter evenly between the two pans.
Bake loaves at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1 hour.

The texture is cake-like and my children loved it. I can see why no one asked for the recipe for the corned beef---like the Pilot said, it looks rather purple and green! Must get better at this photo-taking.

Irish Supper

I made corned beef with cabbage and carrots in the crock pot today.


And some Irish Soda bread made with sour cream. They liked it!

Friday Night is Pizza Night

For most of the twenty years of our marriage Friday night has been designated as pizza night. We were quite poor when we were newlyweds so we would make our own pizza. After a few years we were able to afford Domino's. Then we became vegetarians and went back to making our own pizza again. We would get very elaborate with spinach, broccoli, sun-dried tomatos, and soy cheese. We even took our own cheese to pizza restaurants. They were very gracious about it. Then we had children and all that went out the door. Now its good ole mozzarella and pepperoni for us. Oh, and Coke also.

Apple Crumb Pie

I made this apple pie for President's Day. I was going to make a cherry pie, but J3 loves apple, so I went with that. The recipe I use is from my mom's old Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book---the one with the red checkered tablecloth on the cover. It's called Apple Crumb Pie.
I have tried many different apple pie recipes over the years and this is the one my family likes best. The "crumb" topping goes well with vanilla ice cream.