Bread!!!

Lately John has been making homemade bread to make sure that if our food storage had to be used that he new how to actually cook with it.  A friend in the ward had sent a recipe on youtube for kneadless bread and while the first loaf didn't look or turn out terribly well but it tasted good and was good enough to prompt him to try once more.  The 2nd was fantastic and we shared it with the O'Hares (sorry to John's family who were the ginnie pigs on the first loaf) and it was gone by midafternoon.
The recipe for this loaf is at:
Kneadless_Bread
and the instructions at points are a little ambiguous (Hence the first loaf fiasco), but if you read some of the comments that go with the video you can start to make some inferences as to what to do to get things to work out.  It's really crusty bread but was great with Butter and Jelly.
With the 2nd loaf success he started clicking around to other potential "Easy Bread" options and came across this "ciabatta bread" recipe:
No_Knead_Ciabatta_Bread
It was really just another bread but ciabatta just sounds better.  John decided to stir it up a little and cut some rosemary from our bush growing in the back and put it on half of the loaf.  It turned out well and we both loved it with the rosemary, but it wasn't as nice with Jelly.  I'm sure the other half would be and in the end this one was like the first just shaped differently.
John was nice enough to allow me to have the "butt" of the loaf.  He's still experimenting with options and we hope that you can have some fun with some of these options he has found so far.

Fun @ Schneff

We recently attended a Birthday party at Schneff Farms in Queen Creek.  It was fun to see kids having fun and seeing the farm animals and we had a really good time.  Rosie must have been feeling a little left out because she decided to mark the occasion with the following picture...

and if it's a good idea for Rosie apparently John should join in...

We had a great time and thank Tyla for inviting us to share in her 10th birthday.

Hobbies and more hobbies...

John is back to playing roller hockey again.  He has been playing on Tuesday nights with coworkers.  He played  recently with his boss Lee (left of John in the picture), Pat (other side of John), and the Ryans (aka Rico! & P) at far right.  We're just waiting for the next big injury to come from this...

Loco Moco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mmm!  Mmm!  Mmm!

Ever since John heard about this dish from a TV show last year he was wanted to try it.  It's called Loco Moco and it's delicious.  He made it a little different than the way it was presented on the show.  It was supposed to have 2 beef patties, but John got a bit adventurous and mixed some ground beef in with the gravy and just poored that over the top of everything.
He took rice and piled it on the plate.  Then he scooped some of the ground beef and brown gravy mixture over the top of that, put a fried egg (over easy) on top of that and then topped it off by pouring some more of the brown gravy and beef mixture on top of all of it.
It was great and he made so much that it made a few meals.  John has been in lunchtime leftover heaven!!!  And he ranks this right up there next to shepherds pie!

Our new Band Album...(Fake Band and album but you'll love it)

Some thing I saw on Hollies Blog (http://rowleycomingsandgoings.blogspot.com/)
Thought it was a good idea...

and if you act now we'll ship for free!

Show off

My Rosie looks particularly lovely today.

She decided to show off a bit and show the flower she got from her sisters-in-law.  They made several for her in different colors and the blue (I'm told its not blue it's turquoise) apparently was the flavor of the day this day and she wanted to try and show how loved we must be because our tree (in the background) was completely full this year and then some.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!!

It was great celebrating Todd's Bday with Family and Friends.