I have earned these certificates in the last three months. The first is a basic review of what I learned in class. The second one is learning how to run a restaurant.
Chef Pica sent a link a few months ago saying if we were interested in earning some free online training, to look at these courses. I only did the two.
Now to start studying again for my servsafe certificate.
I love these cracker Toffee. I love Toffee and crackers mixed because they are sweet with a crunch and a little salt. Here is the link to the recipe!
I wanted to try an experiment. I took a good pizza crust we like and a dutch oven bread we like and combined them. All the measurements are approximate 🙂
A little less than 5 cups flourI think I would like it a little fluffer. So next time I would punch the bread down and let it rise again when I preheated the oven. Another thing I will try is shredding cheese to put in it.
When I was younger, I wanted to learn how to make cream puffs. Momma let me. It was easy and fun. I made them again last night, but with home made Nutalla instead of chocolate. 
You can also find the recipe here and the Nutella recipe here.
We find a recipe for caramel apples today. Next time we will try the other one we found.
A few weekends ago, we went to camp Patmos to help with camp. I helped Auntie Kristi in the kitchen. I got to meet some of the girls that work there. It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed helping.
I helped make breakfast one day. We cracked about 500 eggs! I also helped make chicken, mashed pototoes and helped serve for other meals.
A few years ago, I got to help Auntie Kristi bake too. She is still silly!
Today is national Rice Crispy treat day. Make some good Rice Crispy treats with some one special.
For Audrey’s birthday, I combined recipes to make her a grain free chocolate peanut butter cake. The cake is from lifemadefull.com and the peanut butter and chocolate layers where recipes I found a long time ago. I put peanut butter m&ms on for decoration. It turned out very good! It was rich though!
We found a super easy bread recipe that we have been experimenting with. You mix together 3 cups flour, 2 tsp salt, 1 tsp yeast and 1.5 cups water. Mix it well and then let set for 8-18 hours. Heat your oven to 450 degrees. Put a dutch oven in the oven with the lid on and warm up for 30 minutes. Place dough on parchment paper, add flour if needed! Let rest while oven warms up. Bake in dutch oven for 45 minutes with the lid on. Then take off and let cook another 10 minutes or until golden brown.
We have tried this recipe with 1/4 cup sour dough starter and it turned out excellent. Today I added 1 cup shredded cheese and it looks great also!
This weekend we were vendors for Ruth and Friends tea (they were raising money for Soup for Success). I made candy! I had caramels, toffee and mint bark. I do not know if having samples would have helped any, there were so many other sweets there for the tea. But next time, I will try to have some.
I had fun! I learned to interact with people better. Maybe I can do this again one day, we will see.