Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Coconut Macaroons




TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM


  • JUST BLOOMED TODAY  
  • AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY
  • TWEET TREATS
  • DID YOU KNOW...?
  • DOG CONFESSIONS
  • GARDEN UPDATE
  • DOG HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
  • FAUNA
  • GARDEN GIGGLE
  • GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0103 COCONUT MACAROONS 
  • WHAT IN THE WORLD?  
  • FEEDBACK
JUST BLOOMED TODAY 


AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY 

TWEET TREATS
bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.  
There's nothing I'd rather do than see your leaf-raking technique. @karentozzi
 

DID YOU KNOW...?
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), author of the Oz book series, spent much of his time between 1904 and 1910 at the Hotel Del Coronado. Baum wrote at least three of the Oz books while staying at the hotel, and some speculate that the hotel's design inspired Emerald City, the fictional capital of the land of Oz.
DOG CONFESSIONS

GARDEN UPDATE
Switched to afternoon watering and that has worked out better. Soon the weather will be dropping at night and I will have to switch to mornings again...but for now, we're okay. 

It was 95F in Riverside today (about an hour's drive from us). It probably made it to the high 80's here.

Made a huge pot of pea soup yesterday, simmered it with the ham ends all day, so yummy. Today I am slowly simmering the pears from our tree which never fully ripened indoors. They turned yellow but stayed hard so I am simmering them down with some apples.
DOG HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
   
GARDEN GIGGLE
(This one's for you, Aunt Ruth)


FAUNA
June Bug in the morning dew

GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0103 COCONUT MACAROONS
Is there anything more yummier than warm macaroons? Hubby and I love a favorite place in Lake Arrowhead when they come hot right out of the oven to your tummy!

You Will Need:
(14) ounces sweetened shredded coconut
(14) ounces sweetened condensed milk
(1) teaspoon vanilla 
(2) extra-large egg whites, at room temperature
(1/4) teaspoon kosher salt
 
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325F. Combine the coconut, condensed milk, and vanilla in a large bowl. Whip the egg whites and salt on high speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment until they make medium-firm peaks. Carefully fold the egg whites into the coconut mixture.

Drop the batter onto sheet pans lined with parchment paper using either an ice cream scoop, or 2 spoons. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until golden brown. Cool and serve.
WHAT IN THE WORLD?  
On today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1469 Ferdinand and Isabella marry
1767 Mason and Dixon draw a line
1851 Herman Melville publishes "Moby Dick"
1867 U.S. takes possession of Alaska from Russia
1898 U.S. takes control of Puerto Rico
1931 Thomas Alva Edison dies
1954 Texas Instruments released the first transistor radio
1962 JFK records his impressions of secret meetings
1968 Longest long jump record set at the Olympics; this world record lasts for 23 years; Yoko Ono and John Lennon arrested for drug possession
1974 Soul Singer Al Green is attacked in his own bathtub
2012 Terrorist for Al Quaida, a 22 yr old student on a visa from Bangladesh, attempts to denote a bomb in the Federal Reserve building in New York.



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