Homemade Butter...

Butter...Homemade Butter. Are there any two words more delicious in the kitchen? I think not. I love to cook. I love to bake. One of the best ingredients a baker and, sometimes even a cook, could use is butter. Yummy, creamy, melt in your mouth or on a hot roll good. So when I came across a recipe for homemade butter last weekend I just knew I had to try it! The Mr. asked, "Did you buy a churn?" No. I need but two things to make this work. Heavy cream and a food processor. No churn or a full day required. Dead women who use to churn all day, envied me. The butter turned out marvelous and delicious. I look forward to always having some on hand. Because, it's homemade, so it's gotta be good for you...right? Right! Homemade, if you can, is always the way to go in my opinion. I suggest, not that I'm anyone special but, you should try to make at least one homemade meal a week. It will forever change your life. Well, at least your wallet! Make something from scratch it's fun and you know exactly what your family is eating.

Moving On.





I have uploaded some pictures from my homemade butter experience. It was epic. If it were a movie it would win every golden globe available. The Oscars? Their mind would be blown, it would win every award available!(Have I mentioned, I don't know where my girls get being dramatic from?) If it were a movie it would look a little something like this:

 

This was so easy to make and took less than 10 minutes! I didn't salt the butter, you can if you want. I did use a cheese cloth to squeeze the extra buttermilk out of the butter. The Mr. used the buttermilk to make homemade biscuits the next morning. Yum! Trust me, you should try it! Here is the link for the website I found the homemade butter. Her name is Jennie and has some great recipes.(FYI: Be prepared for a tissue and maybe even say a prayer for her, she just lost her husband expectantly last week. I think I'll go give my hubby and kids a long hug.) I hope you take the time to make some butter. You will not regret it! :)

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My new table....

My daddy, who is a carpenter, made my mom, my sister in law, and myself a table. Not to share, of course, but our very own table! ;) I love it so much. Sitting around the table and sharing a meal with my family is very important to the Mr. and me. We had a decent table that got the job done, but I wanted a bigger table that we could all sit around comfortably and still have the dishes on the table. I'm from the south, that's how it works here....well in my house anyway. ;) So my daddy made me a cedar table that's around 7 feet long and around 4 feet wide. I don't remember the exact measurements but trust me, it's huge.  It's comfortable to sit at and for the first time in many years, I enjoy my meal without feet on me. Yes, my kids have some sort of obsession with propping their feet on my legs while they eat. That's a little to close to my food, thankyouverymuch! I bought new place mats...actually, I've never had a real set of place mats, just a table cloth. This table is too beautiful to cover with a table cloth! I bought the cloth napkins and rings at Pier 1, on sale of course, and never used them. Now I have a beautiful table to put them on! We are going to sand our chairs and stain them to match our table....one day! Here are some pictures, and if you're interested in your own custom table, email me and I'll get you some info! (Yes, it's a plug for my daddy....No, I'm not ashamed!)

I love the design he made!

All the knots from the tree! So much character!

We have six chairs, but there is actually enough room to have 8 chairs!

I'm so proud of my table! :)

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Homemade Laundry Detergent

 As an adult there is a lot of stuff I do that I never thought I would : make meals from scratch, coupon to save money(and get excited about it!), have the lowest package available from Dish Network(we only have gasp around 20 channels..still a lot but not like most) and do laundry make homemade laundry detergent. I hate laundry but like cleaning, it's a necessary evil. I can't have my kids running around in dirty clothes even if they are going to spill something on them exactly 2.5 minutes after I put them in a clean outfit. So I rant and rave like a mad women about how I don't see the point in doing laundry if I just have to do it again tomorrow remember the scripture about doing all things as if you were doing them for the Lord and gladly wash my clothes and dry them.(After all, I could be like so many who don't even have a house to do laundry in or I could be completely with out a stitch of clothing except what is on my back, so in this I really am grateful for my laundry.)  So I came across a recipe for homemade laundry detergent on The Hud-sons and one pretty princess and decided to give it a try because A. I am all about saving money when I can and B. Holly has 5 kids and I trust any mamma who has to do more laundry than I do!

What you'll need:

I'm not sure why it's so blurry but you'll need:

• 2 cups of Arm and Hammer Super Washing Soda
• 2 cups of Borax
• 1 bar of Fels-Naptha(or Ivory) soap

You shave the bar of soap, I used a cheese grater, this is the hardest and longest part of the process, it took about 5 minutes and soap elbow grease. Not really that bad!

My kids thought it was cheese and wanted to eat it. I told them no but they still looked at me like maybe I was keeping it a secret and it really was cheese and not soap.

Next you stir the grated cheese soap with the Borax and Soda wash and store it in your old way to expensive Gain laundry detergent box. (Yesterday, I did buy a plastic container with a lid at Aldi for around $2.00 to store my detergent in. It works like a charm!)

How to use it:
 The same way you do with Gain, Tide, etc. You add 1-3 tablespoons of the detergent to the wash,(depending on how large your load is) turn it on, add clothes and voila, you have clean clothes that smell, well clean! And the good news is, I bought another bar of soap and still have enough borax and soda wash that I can make another batch. So for less than $8.00 I have enough laundry detergent to last me around 2 months. Yay! So be adventuresome and take the challenge to save some money and do something you never thought you would!




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