A limework of geniusness that constitutes a collaboration between two of Liberty's ladies. This is our experience.
This is our journal. These are our
recipes, crafts, activities, ideas, thoughts, exercises and laughs. Enjoy!

Friday, October 29, 2010

Restaurant Style Salsa



This recipe is so easy, inexpensive, and delicious!  I just made it for a little Mexican dinner for a friend's birthday celebration and it was definitely a winner. 

        * 2 -14 ounce cans diced tomatoes
        * 2 cans diced tomatoes with green chilies (I used Rotel - Mild but you can get Med. or Hot)
        * ½ onion, chopped
        * ½ teaspoon sugar
        * ½ teaspoon salt
        * ½ teaspoon cumin
        * ¼ cup cilantro ( few sprigs, leave out, or put in extra...it's salsa, you can change it to your liking)
        * 2 tablespoons lime juice

Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor and pulse until desired consistency.  Chill for an hour or so before serving. 

*If you want a stronger salsa, you can throw in a Jalapeno pepper or a clove of garlic.   

Enjoy!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

SpoOoOoOky Dinner

My mom is officially the coolest grandma ever. 
My niece and nephew moved about 1.43 miles away from my parents this summer and she has really grown into her grandma role. I think she was born to be a grandma! 
The other night she put on a spooky dinner and I thought it was the cutest thing I've ever seen. 
I can't wait to start this tradition with my babes....in many, many years. 
If you click on the name each entrĂ©e, it will take you to allrecipes.com, where they have lots of other cute ideas too! 


Vomit/Boogers....aka guacamole 








Googily eyes and gummy worms in jello [pretty self-explanatory] 



Happy Halloweenie eating! 

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Famous Henry Wheat Bread

Hi everyone!  So, I told my husband that I would be the mud-blood to let this recipe be known.  See, it has run through his family for quite and while and I have never been to his family's house or any of his siblings homes without being offered some of this delicious homemade bread. The first time my husband and I made this together his dad tried to give us instructions over the phone: "just add three glubs of oil..."  Well, that wasn't working out for us too well so here is the actual recipe.

Homemade Wheat Bread

Mix:
5 cups hot tap water
1 cup white flour
1-4 cups wheat flour
1/2 cup oil (I use canola)
3 tablespoons of yeast
1/2 cup of honey or sugar (I prefer honey)
Let sit for 10 minutes after mixing.
Add:
1/2 cup gluten (the best deal is in the food storage section at the grocery store)
1 1/2 Tbsp salt
8-12 cups wheat flour
Mix 10 minutes and let rise 10 minutes
Mix and put into greased pans (I usually have to use 4 or 5 bread pans) My husband says to make sure and "spank" the dough before you put it into the pan.  Let rise 15-20 minutes.
Bake at 375 for 30 minutes.

* we just use a stable mixer with the dough hook the whole time.

After you take the bread out of the oven, immediately transfer the loaves to a cooling rack, or if you don't have one you can use a dish towel.  Otherwise the bread will "sweat" in the pans and you will end up with nice soggy bread.  Yum Yum!  Makes the best PB&J sandwich.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Don't Tell Anthro!


I wonder if we could make this?
I am absolutely in love with it, but not so in love with the $50 price tag. 
And that's on sale! 
Eek! 



Where my kids at?

Carrie, take notes.
In 5 years we're making a remix when we have a few backup dancers [aka, babes]




Saturday, October 23, 2010

What's in a name?

So you're probably asking yourself why we named our blog "Liberty's Lime." 
You wish you could've been there when we were deciding this, trust me. 
We tried everything and anything from combining our names into Warrie, Chitney, yadda yadda. 
Then we came up with Liberty (a midwest town we were both raised in). 
So then we tried to find another L word to go with it. 
Liberty's Lemon? Too sour. 
 Liberty's Lust? Yikes.
Liberty's Luck? That's dumb. 
Liberty's Legs? We're both short and that really doesn't make any sense. 
So Liberty's Lime it is! 
--
Carrie and I are trying to expand our level of craftiness...be it with recipes, decorating ideas, baby names, funny stories. That is the purpose of this blog....just a place to 'store' and combine our ideas.
SO! Idea numero one-o. 
MUSTACHES. MOUSTACHES? MUSTASH? I don't know how to spell it, so we'll just call them staches. 
STACHES are all the rage right now it seems. And since a certain Elder can't dress up for Halloween this year, we decided to help him out a little. 
Project 1





It's simple, and cheap.
All you need is:
construction paper, cardstock, cardboard, whatever
hot glue
bamboo sticks

Basically we just googled 'moustaches' and got some pretty creepy awesome ideas, traced them onto the construction paper, cut them out, and hot glued the stick to the back. 
A great craft ideas for little kids, 
and obviously big kids as well. 


Thursday, October 21, 2010

Our New Blog

Hey everybody! Welcome to our new blog.  I just thought I would post quickly about how excited we are for this new blog and we have a lot of ideas floating around that we can't wait to share with you!  The other night we got together and did a fun craft so I will let you wonder for a while what it might be and we will post about it soon!  Happy October!