Dandelion Bread - You Have to Try This, It's Scrumptious!

As I've mentioned several times recently, I've been planning to make some dandelion bread from the abundance of dandelions we always have in our yard and in the field behind the house. Well, we finally to got to try it.

I had plenty of help picking the dandelions. They look so serious in this first photo, like they are on a very important mission.

Here is our harvest.

I took these in and pulled of the stems and leaves and then washed them. I then meaured them and there were about three cups of flowers.

Then I cut the bottom off each flower so that I was left with mostly the yellow part. I didn't worry about it if a little green got in with the flower, I just didn't want those large green parts mixed in. This left me with almost two cups of flowers petals.

After lunch the kids helped mix up the batter for dandelion bread.

Batter in the pan, waiting to go in the oven.

And here's the final product!

Absolutely delicious warm from the oven with butter and honey! I also had some toasted this morning and it was yummy that way too.

And now here's the recipe.

4 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 - 2 cups dandelion petals

1/2 cup vegetable oil

3/4 cup honey

2 eggs

2 2/3 cups milk

 Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Combine dry ingredients, including dandelion petals, in large bowl. In seperate bowl mix milk, beaten eggs, honey and vegetable oil. Add to dry ingredients and mix well. Pour batter into two greased bread pans. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes. Check for doneness. If not quite done lower temperature to 350 and continue baking, checking every five minutes.

Enjoy!

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Kids in the Kitchen - Amanda's Triple Cheese Bacon Macaroni (With a Side of Chocolate Chip Cookies)

The kids went all out planning their menus this week and today was Amanda's day to cook. As she's becoming more comfortable in the kitchen she's gotten reached the point where she's ready to experiment and trying new things.

One of her favorite food is macaroni and cheese and she has made it many times from the box. This time she wanted to make homemade mac and cheese and she didn't want to follow a recipe but to make it her own way.

So, with no recipe and no exact measurements here is what she did.

Boiled about 24 ounces of macaroni until it was somewhat tender but not soft. To the drained macaroni she added a lot of grated cheddar cheese, nearly a whole 16 ounce package of american cheese, a 16 ounce container of cottage cheese, several large spoonfuls of sour cream, and a pound of bacon, baked and diced.

 Over this she poured enough milk to keep it moist as it baked and added salt and pepper to taste. 

All this makes a very large batch of macaroni and cheese but we feed a lot of people around here. It turned out wonderful and we ate nearly all of the large pan of it. The smaller pan we will eat either tomorrow or Wednesday. It's always nice to have a quick meal ready on days when we're extra busy or just want to be able to spend most of our time outside.

She also made a delicious batch of jumbo chocolate chip cookies.

  Add some peas and applesauce and we had a wonderful dinner this evening.

Thank you, Amanda.

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