I can always tell when springtime is on its way... For me springtime is when I get all my crazy ideas Ideas, I might add that usually take me the rest of the year to finish. This weekend was no different. Ken and I brought home 30 pounds of seed potatoes...Now anyone who knows me, knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE to play in the dirt...so much in fact that I usually start seedlings mere days after Christmas because I positively can't wait anymore.
So of course we had to plant the potatoes...right away. It was a lovely day in the sunshine, cutting up potatoes and lovingly sticking them in the dirt. it took us about two hours to turn the garden over, make the rows, and plant the potatoes. AND of course it was still a bit chilly. SO when I got back into the house I decided to make hot chocolate. A seemingly PERFECT end to a relaxing day gardening and baking...
BUT WAIT...
Ken and I had decided to try and get our milk from a local farm... Just to see what, if any benefits might arise from doing so. I may continue to do so SIMPLY for the entertainment factor! I went to go fill my mug with milk ( because to me it isn't hot chocolate otherwise!!) and went to pour it and nothing came out!! Puzzled I turned the jug right side up to see what had happened and found out ( much to my amusement) that all the cream had risen to the top and started to solidify ( it smelled fine, btw). Now i am in my Mid thirties and up until now had NEVER seen such a thing! I knew it could happen but I had always bought my milk from the grocery store. Pasteurized and homogenized milk simply does NOT do this!! After I heated it up I noted that butter fat had risen to the top and made a neat swirled pattern. Lastly... you could TASTE the difference...YUM. I think I'm in love...
Aside from entertaining children and doing homework all weekend I decided that I needed to bake... So far I'm up to a loaf of bread, a ham bake, and two batches of granola bars...
I apologize for the lack of pics. I'll try to upload them tonight...
