New Year’s Eve

Shalom Dear Friends in Messiah!

What are y’all doing on this L-rd’s Day and New Year’s Eve?

We are, as always, low key! LOL! That is my “live by motto!”

Last night was church and as usual, it was awesome and I love gathering with the saints, praising and worshiping G-d and hearing from the Word.

Today our daughter’s boyfriend is coming over. <smile>

I baked 7 loaves’ worth of whole wheat bread. What I’ve been doing is SO fun! I make a 7-loaf batch (I use the older Bosch stainless bowl with no center column and it holds more dough.) and divide it up with different flavors and uses.

I divide the dough equally by weight. Then, I shape 3 loaves for regular ww honey bread and let them rise. Then, I take out a 1- loaf portion and set aside.

Then, with the remaining 3-loaf portions in the Bosch, I add cinnamon, sucanat, vanilla extract and 2 cups of organic raisins. I knead this all briefly in the Bosch and let the dough rest.

Then, I bake off the risen first 3 loaves. Next, I take the raisin cinnamon dough out and shape that and let rise. Then I take the remaining portion of ww dough and make that into pizza swirls (our family’s new favorite thing to eat!). Today I am making garlic, Parmesan and mozzarella swirls. We will dip them in organic marinara.

Tonight for supper, I’m making the pasta buffet my family enjoys. I’ll serve it with roasted whole green beans and pine nuts and with the garlic pizza swirls.

The Pasta Buffet is:
Organic whole wheat spaghetti
3 toppings to choose from:
1) Organic marinara
2) Garlic, butter and Parmesan
3) Alfredo

We’ll have homemade strawberry ice cream parfaits with berries for dessert.

What are y’all cookin’ today?

About Vickilynn Parnes

A student of health and nutrition for 45+ years, Vickilynn Parnes has over 40 years of actual hands-on experience reviewing and personally using different tools of the homemaking vocation, focusing on the areas of health and nutrition, and currently retired. Vickilynn is a former magazine columnist, product reviewer, cookbook author and radio talk show host, as well as a mom to 5 children and 2 grandchildren.