Sandwich for My Kids Lunch box

I love to cook something that my kids actually like. They are in the age that no much is good, other than lots of junk food. Both of them, however, really like the bread that I bake once in a while for them to take to school.

The bread is quite simple, but tastes very good. It is an egg-based dough. Very nice for sandwiches. So, I first I test the yeast. I bought a long time ago (we are talking years here) a big bad of yeast from Costco. I put it in the fridge since day one. The yeast is still good!

After mixing with the mixer (I use a Kitchen Aid), I let it rise. The time for rising depends on the weather. If it is colder outside, I turn on the oven for a few minutes, turn it off, and put the dough there to rise. It takes aroun 1 to 2 hours to rise.

Then, I divide the dough into small pieces. Here is a picture of the dough after rising, and already divided into small balls.


After, I open each ball, big enough to fill in with whatever I have in the fridge. This time was hot dogs. By being the person that need to try new things, I also fill some of them with cheese. One of my kids said he would try. Here is a picture of the filling:



After filling it, I close it. I use some water to really seal the dough, and put the bread on a baking pan, covered with corn meal. Why corn meal? I don't know :-) but I think it is cool.




After they are all done, I brush with some egg, and "mark" the kind of sandwich: usually I use poppy seeds, sesame seeds, etc.


Here is the end result: all baked and the house smelling so good.


I've made these sandwiches with pepperoni, turkey breast and ham. The kids liked.

What do you think?

Crochet Monkey - Henry is born!

I finished the monkey! As I mentioned in my previous post, one of my children requested a Monkey. So, I showed him this picture:



He immediately loved this one. It is a very cute Monkey. I had some leftover brown yarn, and started working right away. This Monkey is from this book: Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful


Here is my version of the Monkey. I introduce Henry (that is how my son decided to call him)


And another picture:

I made a scarf with a pretty cool yarn. The scarf can be detached from Henry. I also embroidered a smile on the face.

I have to confess that it has some minor :-) problems: the face turned out a little smaller than I wanted it to be. It was hard for me to crochet such tiny legs and arms. Sometimes I had to put my glasses (that is called aging :-)

I am glad it is done, and my son likes his Monkey: Henry is born!


What do you think?

He is Mine! Layout

I just posted this layout in the Scrapbooks Gone Digital Gallery.





The Kit that I used offers so many choices, including the option of creating several pages (8 Quick Pages!) very quickly, using the QP package. For this layout, I used the following kit available in the SgD Club Products:

http://www.scrapbooksgonedigital.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=890

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Monkey

One of my children requested a Monkey. So, I showed him this picture:



He immediately loved this one. It is a very cute Monkey. I had some leftover brown yarn, and started working right away. This Monkey is from this book: Mr. Funky's Super Crochet Wonderful


This book has lots of very cute crochet animals, including a key holder: very small animal done in crochet.

I made all the parts. Here are the body and the head:


Here are the legs and arms:


And, finally, the ears, tail and face:

Now, I just need to stuff them and sew them together. I will show later how it did turned out.

What do you think?