Garlic Rosemary Wheat Bread

One of my favorite things to make is bread! I've done many basic wheat bread recipes, but I wanted to add some interest and favoring with garlic and rosemary! 

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of whole wheat flour
• 2 cups of white flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup butter, softened 
• 1/4 cup of honey
• 1 packet of yeast
• 2 cups of warm water
• Roasted garlic 
• Fresh rosemary  

Dissolve the packet of yeast in the warm water and let sit for 5 minute. In a separate bowl mix together the honey, butter, & salt. 

Add the water/yeast mixture to the honey/ butter mixture.

Slowly begin to add the yeast. 

With about one cup of flour left to add the mixture will be too dough-y to mix, which is when I turn to kneading. Transfer the dough ball to a lightly floured surface, add the remaining flour and kneeeead! 

Add in the roasted garlic! Yummmm!

Then add in the rosemary!

Once everything is evenly mixed move the ball to a clean bowl and lightly cover the dough with olive oil.

 About an hour or two later the dough will double...

Once the dough ball is twice it's original size divide it into two separate balls.

Leave these to rise some more, about 30 minutes. In this time pre-heat the oven to 375.

Bake at 375 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
And you're done! Now the tricky part here is to not eat it all in 10 minutes!

Flower Crown

As it is still wintertime here in Oregon, I needed a colorful pick-me-up to brighten my day. This craft perfectly combined my obsession with flowers and my love of hair accessories! 

You simply need:

• fake flowers! 
• wire (green is best)
• and hot glue

Begin with measuring the size of your head. My big head needed two of the steam wires!

Once you have the base of the grown and your glue is hot take a flower stem and begin gluing to the crown!

Using the hot glue, attach each flower stem to the wire. Pick one direction and go!

Make sure to keep gluing in the same direction around the wire.

Once you connect to the beginning...

And the final product! This was actually my second floral crown I've made. Check out below my yellow one I made last summer!

(possibly) The Easiest Tortilla Soup!

 It has been freezing cold here in Oregon so why not warm up with some yummy and easy homemade soup!!

The key ingredients you need are:

• chicken broth 
• canned tomatoes
• tomato paste

Beyond those three ingredients I literally started to dig in the pantry to see what would be good! Here is a list of what I added:

• canned corn
• yellow onion
• garlic
• canned green chilies 
• black beans
• pepper jack cheese 
• chili powder to taste

First I browned the onions in a large pot on medium heat. While the onions were browning I opened all the cans, grated the cheese and washed the beans.

 Add the chicken broth, tomato paste and canned tomatoes and stir.

 Then add the beans, corn, chilies, garlic, and whatever else you decide to add! I let this all cook together on medium heat for about 20 minutes. 

 A few minutes before serving, I added the cheese to melt in. Check for taste and if needed chili powder, salt and pepper as needed.

I had tortilla chips on hand which I crushed for a little garnish and bam! Tortilla soup! How easy? It was perfectly spicy, chunky and warm on a cold winter day!

This was the only photograph I got before all the soup was snatched up!