Adventures in Baking -- Cornbread

Emily and I made cornbread to go with chili for dinner, and it was delicious, fun, and frugal!

We followed the recipe on the back of the bag of Bob's Red Mill Corn Meal found here. It was so simple, even I couldn't screw it up.

Emily had so much fun with this....

...and was a big help with all that stirring!

Special thanks to Gardenmama for her inspiring post.
Have fun!!

You can't catch me!

All four of us enjoyed some late night baking this evening. We made gingerbread cookies! This is an activity Emily has been begging me to do for ages, but I'm not much of a baker. At all. Clearly, it was time to call in reinforcements! Hey, I know my limits.

First, find the perfect cookie sheet.

Next, get a big, strong, daddy to roll out the dough.

Be sure to turn on your oven light!

Cut out the gingerbread men, and make them talk to each other.

Assign someone to keep an eye on things and make sure the cookies don't burn.

Carefully transfer cookies to a cooling rack.

Decorate! Oh dear, we did have one casualty....... *sniff*... poor guy. He didn't even see it comin'.

These guys looked much happier!

Craft!! Super quick and easy felt gingerbread men. 1. Trace cookie cutter. 2. Cut out felt. 3. Sew two layers of cut felt together. 4. Decorate with PUFFY PAINT for icing!
I don't know about you, but I'm thinking this is probably the best use for puffy paint I've seen in a long time!

In other exciting news, I just found out we have been nominated for a Homeschool Blog Award from The Homeschool Post! Please, please, please consider voting for us (there's no need to sign in). We have been nominated for two categories: Best Thrifty Homeschooler and Best Cyber Buddy Blogger!

More good news -- Dawn, (aka UK Lass), has granted me permission to sell some fun fabric dollhouses in our etsy shop. You can look for them there early next week -- just in time for the holidays! Thank you, Dawn!