Profiteroles are French Cream Puffs that are served at elegant French holiday dinners. A quick dessert if you make the shells ahead then stuff with whipt cream or ice cream and drizzle with Caramel Cream to serve.
Posted on 11/20/2021 6:48:41 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Profiteroles are French Cream Puffs that are served at elegant French holiday dinners. A quick dessert if you make the shells ahead then stuff with whipt cream or ice cream and drizzle with Caramel Cream to serve.
Another Wisconsin Tradition - Cream Puffs at our State Fair.
I haven’t made them in ages; I used to whip up a batch of Chocolate Eclairs when I was a teen and wanted something from my Dad that he’d already said NO to.
Those and my Chocolate Chip Cookies were the ‘Ace in the Hole’ for (usually) getting what I wanted, LOL!
Mmmmmmm.......cute.
We’ve been enjoying beautiful fall weather here in Central Missouri over the past few days.
No gardening, just hunting. Farmer started shelling corn across the road yesterday. Said he kicked up three nice bucks with the combine. Mrs. Augie is sitting in her condo now waiting on one of them to make a mistake.
I spent a couple hours in between hunts chopping firewood yesterday, and a couple more hours today. I decided after the 4th loader bucket full today that it was time for a shower and the couch. lol
I cooked the tenderloins from the deers that we got last week for breakfast this morning. Melt in your mouth yum...
I used your method this spring-and planted stuff really close. Ate the initial greens as baby spinach etc. When the weather got warmer, I transplanted what was left.
The little gem made a really nice tall romaine type lettuce. So it worked really well, but the big sacks were hard to manage and hard to fit into the area I had — could only get one going.
Each of the containers is deeper which I think will help, and I basically will have double the growing space. Each container will use half of the big bag of soil — and I can lift half a bag pretty easily. I have 4 of these containers and room for 2 or 3 more.
My shoulder is still recovering from lifting heavy stuff above my shoulder when I was organizing the food I had canned. So I’ve gotta admit that age means you need to be a little more judicious with the weight lifts. Ha.
How on earth does one get a Christmas cactus to bloom?
I have one that I bought as a little plant and that was the only time I saw flowers on it.
It’s been years now and it’s huge, but no flowers.
It is a condition of LIGHT that prompts the blooming, as well as watering and temperature.
At my other farm, I didn’t have a perfect spot for them so it took some planning; they went outside for the summer months in a shaded area. When I brought them in before the first frost (or a little sooner!) they went to the top of my fridge in the kitchen, where they got lots of warmth and a lot less light. And they bloomed like crazy after a little fertilizing.
Where ‘Miss Peach’ lives year-round is in a south facing window. BUT as the Sun gets lower in the sky and Earth starts tilting away from the Sun, she gets less light each day and that forces her into bloom this time of year.
Remember, plants bloom for two reasons only: They are happy and healthy and want to ‘spread the love’ of their pollen and/or seeds, or they think they’re dying and on the way out and want one last shot at Immortality!
Here’s a step by step. I’ll bet if you just adjust a few things, you’ll eventually get blooms. ;)
“I cooked the tenderloins from the deers that we got last week for breakfast this morning. Melt in your mouth yum...”
I. Am. Drooling! Loves me some Tenderloin - out of any critter. (Well, maybe not a squirrel or rabbit...but I’ve never been THAT hungry!)
Amazingly, Beau fried up the tenderloins from a BIG raccoon one day and it was actually pretty good. Wouldn’t want a steady DIET of it, but I was surprised that it was tender and tasty!
Probably a good guess! None of my friends have one, lol.
I searched a while on TinEye and Google, but nothing came up as to who might own it.
big news is my Whole Seed catalog has arrived.
Rainy morning here - we should see sun later in the afternoon. I feel good today ..... with rain on the way for last night, I got outside yesterday for a couple of hours and raked/put away 10 39-gal bags of pine needles. The box was originally 18 bags .... I had 10 left, so I bagged 8 last year. I had one left over so I only used 7, but I did haul two trailer loads of pine needles & left them loose between the beds. I estimate a trailer load is a good 2 bags. When I calculate it all out, I should have enough pine needles for my mulching needs next year. It’s a similar feeling to the one I used to get when I got a big load of hay in the barn in Nov/Dec - I knew I had enough to feed the horses through the winter until the grass started growing in the spring. Granted, I’m not feeding pine needles to anything, but I’m “good” for next spring when it’s time to plant.
I’ve only gotten two so far - from HPS Seed and Edmund’s Roses - but they are both owned by my former employer. ;)
https://www.edmundsroses.com/ecatalogs
I predict a HUGE discussion on Seed Catalogs in the upcoming weeks. So GLAD they come earlier every year! :)
Did you see that my steer, ‘Weber’ is STILL grazing? We’ve never had grass so green & long this late in the season. It is terrific, is saving on hay costs for him & Ithaca and he is just loving being moved around the property and chowing down all day long. :)
We’d do the same with the mule, but he’s SO stubborn. You could be dragging him to a field of fresh CLOVER and he’d still fight you every step of the way! Anything and everything needs to be HIS idea, and HIS idea, only. He’s too smart for his own good, sometimes. ;)
Really nice that you still have grass! I always loved it when the horses had grass into early December ... saved about a month of hay and at one time, I had 5 mouths to feed.
My first pony was a smart old gal - we could tie her out in the yard (& did a lot) and she knew how to keep from getting her feet tangled up in the ropes .... the big horses, I didn’t dare put out on a rope!
I was watching a TV show some while back (like maybe 2 years!) and the guy had mules. He left them at a farm during the winter (he was back in the boonies, didn’t have food for them) so in the Spring, he would go get them and take them home. Well, he tried to take them home. One mule started acting up & the other mule seized the opportunity to also act up. He ended up walking back to the corral after being dumped (the mules were ‘waiting’ for him) and he was trying to figure out what to do. His comments were that you need to be exceedingly careful with mules. When training, if they have a “bad” experience, they never forget it. He was in a bit of a pickle because his mules ‘got away’ with misbehaving, which was problematic.
My mom, growing up, had to plow with mules. The one that left a lasting impression was “Bill”. He was a good mule in general, great worker, never stepped on the plants, knew exactly how to turn around at the end of the rows. BUT ... if Bill even ‘thought’ he heard thunder, he was headed back to the barn, regardless of what he was doing, hooked up to, etc. No thunderstorms for Bill!! :-)
Mules are definitely one of God’s most interesting creations, LOL!
Beau bought Ithaca 20+ years ago to be a companion to his wife’s horse. Well, the horse died not to long into the mule/horse relationship and the mule stayed.
He’s really good for nothing other than general amusement. Beau has tried to saddle break him a few times, but Ithaca usually wins. He’s EXACTLY the type that would knock you off the saddle going under low branches and such, so maybe it’s a good thing that he won. ;)
Us: “I’M not getting on him! YOU get on him! I’M not getting on him! YOU get on him!” LOL!
A great idea from Williams Sonoma....$14.99.
Decorate homemade baked goods with an assortment of sprinkles that include white pearl stars, mini gingerbread men, red and green jimmies, candy canes, light bulb candies and snow-white jimmies and nonpareils in a Christmas tree box you can display on the table.
You might just try a bouquet of clover to lead him :)
Don’t know why but this city raised girl has always loved mules. There’s just something about them.
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