No sugar. No preservatives. Just Doggie goodness.

 Great gift idea for all your furry friends!

 I really am out of practice and forgot to get photos of mixing up the dough. I also think using a dog bone shaped cookie cutter would be much smarter and save a lot of time!


I worked off of a King Arthur recipe for these. I liked it, there weren't too many ingredients or any waiting. Just make and bake.

To make the hole, I used a piece of a straw. Why a hole? Oh, ya know, I pictured tormenting your dog hanging them on a Christmas tree and tempting them to knock the tree down to get them!






Next I had fun packaging them up!


 

 

 Adapted from King Arthur's recipe

•  1cup flour
• 1/2 cup oats
• 1/4 cup dry milk.
• 1/4 teaspoon salt.
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup peanut butter

1. Preheat the oven to 300°F. Lightly grease a couple of baking sheets.
2. Mix together the flour, oats, dried milk, and salt.
3. Add the egg and peanut butter, stirring to combine; the mixture will be crumbly.
4. Add enough water to bring the dough together; depending on the season, you may need to add a bit more or a bit less.
5. To make biscuits use a dog-bone cutter or shape by hand like I did.
6. Bake the biscuits for about 40 to 50 minutes, baking the smaller cookies for a shorter amount of time. When finished, the biscuits will be dark golden brown, and will be dry and crisp all the way through.
7. Remove the biscuits from the oven, and cool right on the pans.

Meanwhile, they have wasted no time in moving right over to work on the old bridge that goes right over the dam and the lock.



This is the view of the old bridge from the upstream side.






For the pixel peepers out there, they'll probably see there are a few smudges on some of the photos. They are right. Its from raindrops on my lens. I did not bring a rain coat because "I was only going to be a minute" We're now getting some of the Hurricane Harvey weather here in Tennessee. So I ended up running/walking really fast all the way back to the car.
That's all for this time!

Who doesn't love hummus?
Well, me, as a kid. I hated it. I could not believe all the adults were making such a big deal over something that tasted like garlic and lemon! I think I was envisioning something more along the lines of S'mores at the time. ...if you aren't imagining a graham cracker with a piece of chocolate and a melted marshmallow, hummus is quite lovely.

Sweet Potato Hummus

ingredients
1 medium cooked sweet potato
3 tablespoons olive oil.
2 cans cooked chickpeas rinsed and drained
3 tablespoons tahini.
3 cloves garlic, peeled.
juice of 1 lemon.
ground sea salt, to taste

Toss in a food processor and process until smooth.Serve with whatever your favorite dipping scooping food items are. I like fresh cucumber slices, corn chips, carrots, celery and tomatoes.

If you’re like me and loved WindowsLiveWriter for blog post writing it was a very sad moment to find out Microsoft discontinued it. Now what?

 

 

Well after a little talking to my friend Google I discovered I am not alone others lived WLW too and loved it so much they continued it and it’s now called Open Live Writer and free still. Yay!

 

 

It’s got a new purple look but it’s still the same old Windows Live Writer functions. High five to you people who give up personal time to make Open Writer live on!

 

Hello PancakeNinja readers! I know its been a while.

Last week I came by this bridge project and I thought of you. I had a half charged battery, or more like half uncharged but is was fine for a few update photos.

 

All the piers have been poured on the part crossing the Tennessee river.

 

 

 

They’re getting decking on too.

 

 

Meanwhile on the part crossing the Tellico River it is looking good!