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{Pretty}

Peppers are so pretty, wouldn't you agree? (Especially the ones from your garden! [the jalapeños])

{Happy}

I more-or-less invented a recipe for plum cake the other day, which thankfully turned out very well! I had been full of apprehensions when I put the cake in the oven, so you can imagine my happiness and relief when I pulled the beautiful cake out.  (I still have to tweak it a bit, but I hope to post the recipe soon!)

{Funny}

We went to a rodeo the other day, and before the main events there was a kid's sheep-riding contest. Here's a shot of the contestants minutes before the ride.... I just love the variety of expressions! Also, see the encouraging Mommy towards the right of the photo. So cute! (If you would like to see the photo bigger, just click on it.)

Here's a shot of the actual competition! What a funny sight! 

{Real}

Here's some pictures from the Bronco event  later that night (sorry for the blur--my camera was low on batteries).
Whether it's really gutsy, foolish or just amazing, the pictures say it all. 

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Of granola and... ludicrous fun?

Last week (has it really only been one week?), Miss Sarah and I got together to make some granola bars. We had made them before, and they were so delicious that Sarah's boss asked us to make more. We promptly purchased the ingredients, but we let time pass... and keep passing (as it is wont to do). Then Sarah's boss started asking where the granola bars were.

Whereupon, we finally scheduled the time to throw them together last Tuesday morning. Sarah arrived and we immediately began to gather the ingredients together for the recipe. 

This is when we arrived at a problem; that is, we purchased most of the ingredients in bulk so the amounts we had were not exact. To solve this, we measured what we had and scaled our recipe from that. 

For instance, the recipe called for 2/3 c of peanuts, so upon finding that we had 9 1/3c of peanuts, we scaled the recipe by 14. Instead of only using 2 c of cheerios... we had to add 2 x 14 c.... you see where this is going... ahem 24c of cheerios.

 Oh yeah. Did I mention that we also used 14 cups of sugar? 

By the time we measured everything out, it was too late to scale the recipe down. It was so ridiculous (-ly funny) and so full of poor judgement, we were unsure of whether to laugh or stand back in amazement. (We did both, by the way.)

Unfortunately, Sarah had to leave before we finished, but I snapped this picture before she left. 

I had to leave shortly as well but not before getting a snapshot of the finished granola bars (I still had to cut them up but all the actual cooking was done). 

 (The granola filled 4 rimmed baking sheets [one in the background] and 2 extra large cake pans.)

To borrow an expression from Tangled: "That's a lot o' hair granola."

In the end we probably made more than 100 granola bars. There were definitely more than enough for Sarah, her boss, and I to divide. 

Had we known how many we would make, Sarah and I probably would not have scaled it as much, but all-in-all, it was quite an adventure!

 Have you had any cooking (mis)adventures lately? 

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