What am I doing?

I have not been sewing much.  But I have been busy.  I am back to work.  That is one thing.  And then Mum came to visit.  Mum came bearing gifts.  Lots of fun vintage sheets which I have not yet taken pics of and a whole box of fabulous vintage fabric.  Real vintage fabric from the 40s and 50s.  Squeal!  She also brought tomatoes, peppers and grapes.  And her dehydrator.  We got chopping on Sunday.  Mostly Husband got chopping.  Mum took care of the grapes from her vines and they are now raisins.  I haven't bought raisins for years.  Thanks Mum!

Anyway.  Much chopping and stirring and simmering later, we had 53 pints of salsa and one part jar.  It took us all day but now our children and their significant others will be happy as cupcakes.  They like our salsa.  Daughter's special someone says that I have ruined him for store bought salsa.  What a sweetie.

My sewing machine is now equipped with a snazzy new automatic thread cutter.  Apparently, I am the first one to have worn out a thread cutter in all the Janome Horizon 7700s that my local Janome shop has sold.  What does that say?

Sewing this weekend.  For sure.

Rainforest Crackers

FRIDAY!!!!

I came home to the smell of these absolutely glorious crackers.  Lovely with cheese or cream cheese or just plain with tea.  They also make a lovely hostess gift.

Rainforest Crackers:

2 cups flour   

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 cups buttermilk

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup honey

1 cup raisins or cranberries or currants or combination

1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts or almond

1/2 cup pumpkin seeds

1/4 cup sunflower seeds or sesame seeds

1/4 cup flaxseed ground

1 T fresh rosemary chopped

Mix all ingredients together & pour into two large or four small loaf pans that have been sprayed with non stick spray.....Bake at 350 for 25 min for small pans/45 minutes for large pans, until golden & springy.  Cool

Freeze the loaves & when you want to bake, thaw slightly then slice as thin as possible. Lay out on baking sheet and bake at 300 for 15 min, then flip over and bake another 15 min.  Should be crisp and deep golden.

Use your imagination per ingredients above, use some or all of nuts, rosemary, etc or substitute.  Enjoy!