Pictures & Ramblings :)

Shew man oh man I am one tired momma tonight. As I've mentioned in other posts I had ten Easter orders to fill for Country Mom Chef, that actually turned into 12! I started on orders Wednesday night I started most truffle orders, Thursday I had class but after class I baked the cupcakes and did more truffles so I was up pretty late, this morning before delivering everything I iced the cupcakes and put the garnishes on them! So I have been nonstop all week pretty much. But I am glad :) it feels amazing to be making something of Country Mom Chef. I played with the carrot cupcake frosting today and it actually turned out better than the original maple cream cheese frosting I used. I added cinnamon used less cream cheese and of course used maple. Very good! I will post pictures of them shortly and all orders completed. This evening my kids and I dyed Easter eggs! I used a new kind of dye, the box said "Candy Apple" so they were supposed to be shiny I thought that looked kinda cool so I bought them without really paying attention to anything else. In the kit there were 4 little pouches that had the dye in them so you just empty them into the dye "bucket" and the kids painted them. Needless to say we ruined a pair of pants, shirt, and my fingers will be pink and blue for the next few days! But they loved it and I adore these rituals with them.

Yesterday was my second day of my Kitchen Fundamentals class, we had lecture a little bit of the first half then we went to the kitchen and went over different dices and cuts for vegetables. That was pretty cool! We used potatoes so that was a little difficult with the white cutting board behind the potato, but our teacher taught us a neat little trick. To help with that problem and better visualize the item we are cutting you can take a spice and rub it over it just enough to have a tint to the potato. That did help a lot. The brunoise cut is super tiny, so getting the dimensions on that just right was hard. I had issues with most of my cuts getting them to the right size and more of a cube than a rectangle. I blame it on the potato being bumpy ;)

I hope everyone has had a chance to view my Easter Dinner Menu and maybe get a couple of new recipes to try out for their family! This year seems to be going by fast doesn't it. Already Easter, that's crazy to me! Oh before I forget, I had submitted a recipe to Incredible Recipes on facebook, it is another foodie "like" page, and they published it since that happened Country Mom Chef facebook has reached 109 likes!!!! That is huge to me! I am so excited to have everyone follow me along on my journey! I hope everyone is able to find something in my recipes and please if you ever any any requests or questions feel free to email me at CountryMomChefHeather@hotmail.com. I will answer any questions to the best of my knowledge, or try to find out from another Chef! And I am always taking requests for new recipes, I love making new things. This past week was supposed to be a lot of new recipes being made here at my house but we had a lot come up and things just got crazy. They will be posted soon though! Well I am going to get settled for the evening and relax a little while my babies sleep snuggled up in bed! Everyone have a wonderful weekend and enjoy Easter with your loved ones! :)

Here are the finished Country Mom Chef Easter orders: