I'm still playing catch up ... so ignore the fact that this says it was posted 10 days ago ... we all know it's November 1st... Pictures of our Halloween Madness are coming!
The kids each took a little mini loaf of pumpkin bread to their teachers today. No school tomorrow - yippee!!
And since so many of you asked ... here is my mom's pumpkin bread recipe - it simply isn't fall around here without making loaves and loaves and loaves of this bread! Let me know how your loaves turn out! Enjoy!
PUMPKIN BREAD
2/3 cup oil
2-2/3 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 can (1lb.) pumpkin
2/3 cup water
3-1/3 cups flour
2 teaspoons soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
Heat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9x5x3” loaf pans or three 8.5x4.5x2.5” loaf pans. For nice beautiful tall loaves, use two 8.5x4.5x2.5.” Makes 5 mini loaves.
In large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until fluffy. Stir in eggs, pumpkin and water. Blend in flour, soda, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and cloves. Pour into pans. Bake about 70 minutes (50 minutes for mini loaves) or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
While loaves are still warm (not hot) place in plastic bags and let sit. This helps create the moist outer crust that we love!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Pharmacy Week
The third week of October is National Pharmacy Week. A couple of years ago with the welcome of a new young pharmacist just out of college, the hospital pharmacy started a new pharmacy week tradition of delivering plates of goodies to each of the nursing units in the hospital.
For those who don't know, pharmacists and nurses ... well they really don't get along with each other. GR correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it can be easily said, that each is certain that the other is at the bottom of the intelligence pool, and bound and determined to make their life at work harder than it should. So this little plate of goodies is a yearly peace offering, and thanks for their job well done in patient care.
A month ago the pharmacist who is heading up this portion of the weeks events, called to see if I could come in and help them plate up all the goodies for the 17 different units. I really enjoy the people GR works with and jumped at the chance to go spend a morning with them. Alex spent the morning with Grandpa, while Anna and I spent the morning in the pharmacy conference room, plating all these goodies!
GR wanted our contribution to be pumpkin bread, so last night once we got my dad safely on his way back home, and the kids tucked in bed, my kitchen started cranking out pumpkin bread. Three recipes of my mom's pumpkin bread later, and I had 15 mini loaves ready for GR to take with him. When the kids saw them, they all requested mini loaves for their teachers, so I'll be making more pumpkin bread this week!
For those who don't know, pharmacists and nurses ... well they really don't get along with each other. GR correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it can be easily said, that each is certain that the other is at the bottom of the intelligence pool, and bound and determined to make their life at work harder than it should. So this little plate of goodies is a yearly peace offering, and thanks for their job well done in patient care.
A month ago the pharmacist who is heading up this portion of the weeks events, called to see if I could come in and help them plate up all the goodies for the 17 different units. I really enjoy the people GR works with and jumped at the chance to go spend a morning with them. Alex spent the morning with Grandpa, while Anna and I spent the morning in the pharmacy conference room, plating all these goodies!
GR wanted our contribution to be pumpkin bread, so last night once we got my dad safely on his way back home, and the kids tucked in bed, my kitchen started cranking out pumpkin bread. Three recipes of my mom's pumpkin bread later, and I had 15 mini loaves ready for GR to take with him. When the kids saw them, they all requested mini loaves for their teachers, so I'll be making more pumpkin bread this week!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Birthday Waffles
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons margarine
2 large eggs
1-1/4 cups milk
2-1/2 cups flour
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup melted butter
Cream together sugar, margarine and eggs. Add all remaining ingredients except butter and blend well. Pour melted butter over batter and do not mix. Dip batter (~1/3 cup each for my waffle iron, yielding 10 waffles) onto heated waffle iron and follow directions for making waffles.
Serve with syrup or choice of topping (although they are fantastic plain), and enjoy every mouthful with the ones you love.
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