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stuff and during these rainy days there s one thing okay quite a few actually i really enjoy doing baking something new so my two little boys and i ran to the nearest grocery and bought ingredients for what we named the rainy day bean bundt step 1 whip and fluff whip and fluff i use a fork get some air in that business step 2 in a food processor cream the beans nice and smooth after that cream all this together that s right make eric clapton rethink what cream is all about step 2 continued make with love sweet boy hands plus bits of crunchy egg shells mmm puts a yummy ingredient in any cake we all know what boys are made of step 3 get those almonds out bake em and grab a few to munch on hey if you re extra adventurous start a mini food fight we did and the youngest won step 4 once everything has been added in the cream mixture and you mix it all together put all the gooey stuff in a greased bundt pan make sure to lick the bowl and get some of the sticky goo in your hair it s a lot of fun getting it out once it s been dried for a few hours step 5 after baking for 45 50 min let cool while this is cooling this is a good time to take a moment and drink a glass of wine and call your sister you know you ll get some good stuff out of her step 6 flip over and admire adoringly if this is your first bundt cake be extra impressed even if it s not your first bundt be impressed anyway besides i m sure that the glass es of wine will make it that much more impressive step 7 in honor of spring whip up meringue get the coconut ready fall in love deep in love step 8 decorate with playful skill act like falling snowflakes while making your cake pretty step 9 voila now eat dinner in record breaking speed so you can have dessert scratch that how silly and irresponsible of me eat cake for dinner step 10 make sure to dish the cake in pretty sweet dishes when serving to little boys afterall they really are suckers for hearts and flowers and all things beautiful it s not always about worms soccer and super heroes ingredients for the cake 3 cups flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 2 teaspoon salt 1 can 15 oz cannellini beans 1 4 cup 1 2 stick unsalted butter 2 cups granulated sugar 2 large eggs 2 large egg whites 1 cup buttermilk 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract 1 cup slivered almonds for the meringue frosting 2 large egg 3 4 cup granulated sugar pinch of salt pinch of cream of tartar 1 2 cup toasted coconut place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees f grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside in a medium bowl whisk together flour baking powder baking soda and salt set aside add beans to the bowl of a food processor fitted with a blade attachment whip until beans are almost to a smooth puree it s ok if there are some beans that are not completely pureed they ll be well incorporated once they are beaten with the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment add butter sugar and bean puree beat on medium speed until butter and beans are well incorporated about 3 5 minutes beans will break down and create a slightly soupy mixture add eggs one at a time beating for one minute between each addition beat in vanilla and almond if using slow the mixer to low speed and add half of the dry ingredients beat until almost completely incorporated but several white streaks remain add all of the buttermilk beat until incorporated add the remaining dry ingredients and beat until incorporated stop the mixer and remove the bowl use a spatula to fold together and make sure all of the wet and dry ingredients are completely incorporated spoon batter into prepared pan bake for 40 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake come out clean try not to over bake the cake as it s dense and can quickly suffer from dryness remove the cake from the oven allow to rest in the pan for 20 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely while cake cools make the frosting bring 2 inches of water to a boil in a medium saucepan in a medium heat proof bowl whisk together egg whites sugar salt and cream of tartar place the bowl over the simmering water and whisk until sugar has completely dissolved about 4 minutes mixture will be a foamy white and on it s way to thickening transfer the warmed egg mixture to the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment beat on medium high speed until whites are thick and glossy about 4 minutes add vanilla extract and almond if using smooth frosting over cooled cake top with toasted coconut cake will last covered in the refrigerator for up to 3 days posted in parenting recipes make a sweet detour posted on march 1 2012 by roberta owen 1 i m an avid walker by avid i mean that i walk my oldest son to school every day with my littlest son in tow who is four we have walked this route for the last three years and i ve never bothered to clock it i ve just thought well if they don t complain it s not that far over the hills and through the woods i clocked it recently to find that it s a total of 1 6 miles there and back i have to say i m pretty proud of my littlest one who has to do this twice a day this is through snow sleet sun rain wind or hail and sometimes being in the northwest all combined in one go so today we took a little detour after dropping my oldest to school we walked down to the closest donut shop which okay is far out of the way but worth it and enjoyed what i want to call a sweet detour sweets treats posted in be green outdoor recreation places to take the kids a little over a year later and i m still thinking pebbles posted on february 29 2012 by roberta owen 2 as we know i love rocks i love them everywhere from pebbles to boulders to smooth glassy finishes to rough jagged edgy rocks i even photograph them like this which inspires me to draw something like this which is funny because afterall they re just rocks posted in uncategorized food porn friday posted on january 7 2011 by roberta owen 3 i m trying something new as of today i love food and i love taking pictures of food i love experimenting with new foods and so a new thought is born food porn fridays because let s face it it s sometimes just that good today s food porn was a concoction i made up years and years ago cottage cheese on toast with tomatoes and avocados the toast i used today is my favorite of all times david s killler powerseed bread i m admittedly a bread snob i love the taste of good bread and to be perfectly honest the more seeds and grains and nuts in it the better i also used clover organic farms cottage cheese so simply put here s the recipe toast cottage cheese tomatoes avocado pepper to taste it s delicious it s easy and it s healthy posted in cooking baking food porn friday recipes a brief look at 2010 posted on december 29 2010 by roberta owen 4 my beautiful sister i m taking a moment today to look at the year i can safely say that i think most of us do this once christmas and its holiday cheer and madness is over it s a time of reflection and thought and questions and answers my sister and i as teenagers started a tradition that i still do today 17 years later we write ourselves a new years letter so on the night of new years eve we open the previous letter from the previous year and find ourselves reading through pages and pages of memories from what seems like an eternity ago amazing what a year does to us we fill these letters with hopes and dreams events and landmarks answers to the years previous questions and end it with questions to our future selves i can t even tell you how many times we have cried over these letters or how many times we have laughed so hard for so long until we choked from lack of oxygen or exchanged glances as we read the other s letters with a knowing look and a slight nod of our head and say mmhmm we share our deepest secrets and exchange our letters this is something we have done when once upon a time we shared a small room saturated in crumpled homework tea bags and tea cups love letters never meaning to be sent the beatles greatest hits tape playing and stayed up until the sun came up now as grownups and having left neverneverland we haven t been able to share the new years eve tradition for quite some time we still write our letters and sometimes cheat by writing it a month later or use the laptop or email it to each other on new years eve but i always always hold those days of us as young girls readying ourselves for young adulthood sharing with one another those dreams of the future so strongly in my heart but this year things are back on track my sister i get to share our wonderful tradition with each other once again in spite of sounding like a 14 year old girl again will this year be the year where all our hopes and dreams come true what are some of your new years traditions or what are some of your hopes and dreams for 2011 posted in uncategorized cool flavor ideas for kombucha brewing posted on september 28 2010 by roberta owen 7 after about 4 months of brewing kombucha i m now just rolling into a new phase of brewdome flavors don t get me wrong i still enjoy the sweet taste of ordinary kombucha but i drink a lot next to water kombucha is my main liquid staple to get beside the point of topic which if you haven t been aware of that yet is flavored kombucha i do want to point out a few benefits i ve noticed from drinking so much of this tasty tea 1 i really have a better night s sleep i m not sure why this is but i have noticed it 2 i get a good energy from it not like the energy i get after drinking tea or coffee that kind of energy is kind of cool too where you feel like you can run a 50k marathon in twenty minutes and then crash an hour later with a dead pan glaze puffy and debilitated no the kind of energy i m talking about is an easy energy that flows through my body evenly and calmly i ve said it before but it s an energy that clears my body and brain out a good thing 3 i ve noticed a lovely difference in my skin okay i m going stop there these are just noticeable basic observations i ve found recently now onto the fun part flavors and keep in mind i m using a 1 5 l wine bottle for all these measurements i strongly urge everybody who brews kombucha to try strawberry it s a common flavor but don t underestimate its popularity because it s really really good when pouring my brewed kombucha from its gallon sized glass jar i put it in the wine bottle i puree 5 organic strawberries smoosh it in the bottle and put it in the refrigerator ginger strawberry is my next favorite the combination of the two creates such a satisfying and delicious taste i puree 4 organic strawberries and a chunk 1 1 inch of ginger lemon ginger is a unique combination that some might think sounds too weird but it s really good i made it when i got that autumn cold feeling stuffy runny nose sore throat etc and drank this all day by the end of the day i was good unfortunate for my two little boys who did end of getting the dreaded cold and it lasted 5 days i used an entire lemon peel and tablespoon of lemon juice along with 1 1 chunk of ginger so far that s all i ve tried pretty basic to begin with but new for me if any of you have any other ideas of what flavors i should try or you ve tried yourself give me a shout additionally if you ve ever tried other flavors that you found totally disgusting let me know those too posted in kombucha wordless wednesday ecola state park oregon coast posted on september 22 2010 by roberta owen 4 i know this is snuck in as my wordless wednesday pick so it isn t entirely legitimate however i have to say two things about this picture 1 it s taken from my phone and i was hugely impressed of its capability to capture such beauty and feeling and 2 if you go to the oregon coast and want to see what it s all about avoid the tourist packed sea side towns in the likes of seaside and cannon beach unless you like the chintzy tourism packed with people and instead opt for a less crowded but more eventful and picturesque scene such as the ecola state park it offers a descent hike down to the beach privacy seeing as most people tend to enjoy the concept of get in your car drive to the beach hunker down approach and a different and fantastic view of haystack rock cannon beach s claim to fame i urge you to check this place out while the salty air s sea breeze takes your breath away posted in outdoor recreation places to take the kids wordless wednesday wordless wednesday curing garlic posted on september 15 2010 by roberta owen 4 posted in wordless wednesday kombucha and the great love affair posted on september 10 2010 by roberta owen 2 kombucha has been around for centuries much longer than gt s dave synergy drinks and their distributors when gt s dave synergy drinks specifically their trilogy as matters of personal taste and opinion abandoned us i was left in complete shock and disarray trilogy dumped me flirted with me with its colorful packaging and seduced me with its taste it left me feeling on top of the world energized with bubbling bliss and euphoria it was a good thing going tril and me for years of solid happiness understanding mutual respect and awareness and calm it was a good relationship and without warning without any hint of its leaving me tril left me and i found out through a co op employee i felt used deflated scared was it really the end i remember the day well at my local co op shuffling around the store with old and worn out børn sandals and heading towards the cooler section i stood there where the kombucha always is and saw an empty space had word got out that kombucha was the cure all of all disease and mental illness was there something i was missing was everybody having an affair with kombucha and is tril cheating on me i walked over to an employee hey uhhh what s up with the no kombucha out distributors of gt s dave are questioning the alcohol content so they pulled it and are testing it get out yeah a profound conversation i know the great masterminds of dialogue would be proud but it got to the point and my question was answered my mind went into monologue panic mode okay what i didn t even see this coming no more kombucha this isn t right how dare they how am i going to drink kombucha what am i going to drink in the morning tea where s the fizz i suppose instead of milk in tea how would tonic water be that s gross no that won t work tonic water in coffee that s disgusting my energy feels depleted just knowing i won t have a kombucha in the morning how long does testing take this could take ages i do have a scoby and that one bottle of trilogy in the fridge and then it was the beginning of a new relationship people warned me sure some could consider it a rebound my passion for tril had faded left me alone feeling half empty but i needed that feeling back however small and tasteless i made my own kombucha i waited i brewed over my relationship with tril some...