I’d like to be, but somehow I just don’t fit that mold. (I would also like to look just like Sandra Bullock, but that isn’t happening either.)
My friend Pam B. can out-Martha Martha. Earlier in my life I would have aspired to be more Martha-like — no, make that more Pam-like (I like Pam). Now, not so much (on being more Martha-like. I still like Pam).
Our house looks lived in, and I have time to sew and play. Play and sew. Lunch and play. Sew and lunch. Shop and lunch. Sew and shop — oh, the possibilities are endless.
I’m off track from where I wanted to go this morning though. I am in awe of Judy Laquidara who writes books, does customer quilts, designs and shares the pattern instructions she writes (no small feat, let me tell you), is now a keeper of chickens, cans yummy goods, freezes, bakes – okay, THAT’S where I was going today.
(Jim, if you’re still reading this, there’s ice cream in the freezer. Help yourself. You don’t need to read the rest of this post.) Judy recently blogged about the wheat she buys and grinds into flour and then bakes into whole-wheat bread that looks to die for. From there, a discussion on whether or not to wash your wheat first and why Judy does it ensued. (Read Judy’s post here for the answers.)
I think about things like this a lot while I’m taking frozen bread dough out of the freezer to thaw overnight on the counter. But, see, I have things to do! (See paragraph 3.)
While picking up a pizza from Woodland Take & Bake a couple of weeks ago, my aunt and I (no, I don’t even cook much for company) noticed a “U Bake” store a couple of doors down. The store has every kind of dough, pie, pasta — whatever you can freeze — ready to take home and either store in the freezer or prepare.
This morning I made the cinnamon rolls (with the cream-cheese frosting they also have available). Okay, NOW I get to post a baked-goods picture like Judy!!!
Well, I have to go get my second cup of coffee. And please, nobody needs to point out that I will never look more like Sandra Bullock eating this kind of breakfast!
Sue
You also do not have to get up every morning and Sandra Bullock’s freaky husband across the breakfast table either!
You are hilarious! I am sooo with you — I have better things to do than grind my own wheat into flour, but I am definitely in awe of those who can. I’m a big fan of Mary Jane’s Farm, and her magazine . . . http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/ and while I am definitely already a farm girl, I still can’t even keep up with all of them. There are just too many weeds! — and don’t they ever have any crises? Stillborn calves, broken fences, runaway dogs, frozen waterers, rodents in the feed room, broken horse tack, and dirty barns? And . . . I’ve given up trying to look like any celebrity — my mud boots don’t make quite the fashion statement that the pretty colored ones in the magazines do — us normal girls don’t have all that help and money they do to look that good — we’re workin’ with what we’ve got, and we’re just fine! Your cinnamon rolls look delicious!
i’ve only got one question—when are these good folks going national? MN is a bit far for me to drive for take and bake, LOL
those cinnamon rolls look wonderful!
Those look so yummy!!!
Now I KNOW I’m coming to visit!