Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Pears but no Partridge

 

When a friend called and asked if I like pears, I told her yes. I went over and I picked sooooo many pears off of her tree. This one tree bore like there was no next year. (maybe that tree knows something I don't) She'd already done a laundry basket of them and the tree was still loaded.
Clockwise: 
*Huge, heavy bag of pears 
*I separated them out and gave them to friends.  (not shown: the second batch of pears
  I picked)
*Ordered a peeler from Amazon. It looked like a toy but it worked great. 
I also ordered a corer from Amazon. Cores and slices.



A couple of weeks later I decided to use a dump cake method to make a pear cobbler. I watched about 5 different YouTube videos to view various perspectives. I consider a "cake" to have no juice. All of the recipes used a filling. I suppose it's called a dump cake because of the cake mix that's dumped on top of the filling to make a crust.
1. Gathering the items I'll need
2. Cooking and flavoring the frozen pears with just a small amount of water to get it started. As the  pears thawed they released their juices. (I noticed that none of the cooks added any
spices to their filling. ) But, I did. 😃SHOUT OUT to SIS for telling me this.
3. Put a little butter and powdered cake mix at the bottom of the greased pan. 
4. Placed the pear filling in each small loaf pan (about 2 cups), sprinkled the top of filling with cake mix. Placed pats of butter on top before baking

                                             The  Oven Fresh Results 


Cooked Pear Cobblers

I kept one for myself, tasted it and it was delicious.  Now I could distribute the rest to friends.


Top of the list on the receiving end  were  E.P. & L.P who have the pear tree. Thank you.

That's it ***
 







Wednesday, April 19, 2017

This Isn't Your Grandma's Button Box

It's been a while since I posted. Had what I consider major PC issues. Had to get a new modem. Then the PC had to be upgraded. Tech ,Tech,Tech.
 Anyway...


Since I enjoy crafts I've been hanging out once a week at one of the city libraries where they have crafts for adults. 
The first I participated in was making pictures with buttons.  
There were buttons of all shapes, colors and compositions. 
First we painted a tree on the canvas mat.
This tree looks a little angry. Maybe it'll cheer up after I decorate it.


We used E-6000 glue and a real canvas mat.  Choosing the buttons wasn't easy with so many choices






Here are some of the ones that were done .

 
Remember the angy looking naked tree at the top? This is how I filled it in.
 That's it***

Friday, December 24, 2010

Yes, Dear Reader, There is a Christmas Ornament In That Tree.



Decorated by the Charlie Brown Gang