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01 March 2007

in like a lion.

Lion

Hellooooo, March! Yesterday we finally had some moderate temperatures, and when we left the house this morning, it was a lovely, breezy 60 degrees. Immediately I started making plans to head out to the zoo, the park, anywhere! Then right before Zach got home at 10:30... I heard thunder. So I innocently checked the weather to see if they expected any showers. Umph. The forecast was calling for rapidly dropping temperatures, thunderstorms, hail, and possibly tornadoes. Needless to say, we didn't make it to the zoo. We did, however, get to the library and to run a few errands... and we never saw anything but a few sprinkles and some wind.

So at least Zach got out to play in the yard. Here I found him taking his kitty for rides spinning on the swing. He loves his little animals so much... they all have their own personalities.

Swingcat_1

On a completely unrelated note, my mother-in-law gave me a recipe at Christmastime that I've been dying to try out. And can I say... Oh. My. Heck. It is heavenly. I felt quite domestic making it, because the name "poppyseed bread" just sounds so very healthy and domestic, doesn't it? I mean, it has the words seed and bread right in the name! We'll forget about the fact that it's oh-so-easy to make, and tastes like cake, okay? Okay. Enjoy...

POPPYSEED BREAD

Preheat oven to 350°F.

4 cups flour

3 cups sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

2 Tbsp poppy seeds

1 ½ cups oil

2 cups milk

2 tsp each of vanilla, butter, and almond extract

Mix all together.

Bake in 2 large greased loaf pans 1 hour at 350°F.

It may be helpful to turn oven down 25° last half hour of baking.

While bread is hot, top with the following mixture:

2 Tbsp orange juice concentrate

2 Tbsp water

¾ cup sugar

½ tsp each of vanilla, butter, and almond extract

Note: I poured the batter into eight small loaf pans and cooked about 40 minutes at 325.

Poppyseed

05:09 PM in Family, Recipes |

Comments

Kismet

Mmmmm, looks yummy! I will def try it. Maybe tomorrow.
Love your blog. Surfed over here from Kerflop's. Just nosing around :)

~K!

feel free to stop by.

Posted by: Kismet | 01 March 2007 at 06:07 PM

kirsten

thanks for sharing the recipe - it looks great!

Posted by: kirsten | 01 March 2007 at 08:37 PM

JD

thanks for recipe! love that calender.

Posted by: JD | 02 March 2007 at 06:26 AM

Elita

Good post.

Posted by: Elita | 28 October 2008 at 11:02 PM

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