Bread making and it smells so good

 So I’ve rediscovered bread making in my BLACK & DECKER breadmaker. 

 

 My lovely breadmaker  🍞 

Oatmeal Loaf 

Baked and smelling amazing 

Raisin Bread

Added the raisins after the first rest cycle. 

Caraway Rye 

I’ve tried 4 different recipes and every one has been delicious. I’ve made an Oatmeal Loaf, yum. 

A Raisin Bread that was so good, totally gone already as hubby and I polished it off in 2 days.

A Caraway Rye, so good and now I have a Crusty French Bread that’ll be done in 15 minutes from now, it smells amazing in my house right now.  It’ll be ready to eat for dinner tonight.

 

 

Oatmeal Loaf fresh out of the oven

Raisin Bread 

Amazingly delicious 

I’ll be setting the timer tonight to make a loaf to take to my parents for tomorrow at lunchtime. 

Fingers crossed it turns out since it’s for them but so far every one has been so delicious and they also look good 🤞

Stay safe everyone 

M 😘🍞👍

Frogging 🐸

Not anyone’s favourite thing to do but I’ve decided to dismantle or frog any of the WIPs I have lying around and have no plan of finishing. 

This picture is of a blanket I was making as a ripple with the flower squares and the smaller squares with strips of granny ripple between. 

It’s been sitting around for years so this is how it looks now and soon the smaller squares will be separated and made into something else.  I’m keeping the flower squares as is and may ripple on it again at some time in the future. 

 

The blue basket is full of what used to be the ripple stripes  

Haven’t touched my 

Temperature blankets since the last update so I won’t say anything else about it now. 

M

😘❌⭕️

March 31st

 Last post of the month and I’m caught up til March 29 on my blankets. They are getting hard to photograph so I put down a towel but that doesn’t look great either. 

Wrinkles don’t look good 😌 I’ll  try to find another way for the next update  ☺️

There are a few pink squares on the Madrid blanket,  but it’s hard to see them beside the orange.

Ottawa had some great warm days ☀️ 

We’ll be at 13 centigrade today and zero and snow tomorrow 🤦‍♀️ I hope it’s an April fools joke on us but we’ll see soon enough. 

It’s Easter this weekend and I’m looking forward to eating 2 Cadbury cream eggs 😋 

They’re 8 points each and well worth every one. 

I wish everyone a happy holiday whether you celebrate Easter or Passover. 

🐣🐇

See you all in April

 😁☀️😘

Finally using new colors

We had such a great week temperature wise in Ottawa. Warmer weather means new colors in my temperature blanket 👏👏

I can’t crochet the row of squares yet as I’m waiting for tomorrows temperature to finish the row downwards ↘️ 

A bit of personal info. 

It’s the end of March and I’m still maintaining my weight and a loss of  48lbs with WW 

This summer will be 2 yrs of being at goal. 

Wow, I’m very proud of myself. 

BUT

I’m not happy with WW   

They are letting many of the coaches go and keeping very few to do our virtual meetings on Zoom. 

Of course my coach Carol, who I say helped me very much with how well I’ve done on my journey,  was one of the coaches caught up in the last cuts. Understandably I’m not happy with them for that reason. 

They’re making it hard to stay motivated sometimes. I went on an eating spree right after hearing about it and I’m glad I was able to stop myself and get back on track. I know Carol would not be happy to hear I’d given in and fallen off completely. I plan on eating a couple Cadbury cream eggs this weekend coming for Easter though 

🥚 😋 🐣 

I made more 2 ingredient bagels (that after baking turned into buns) The holes disappeared. 

🤷‍♀️ 

Before 

After 

They still taste great. I did olives and sesame seeds in half and Everything Bagel seasoning in the others. Delicious and only 3pts each. 

😋 🥯🥯

Last update of February

I spent a bit of time today catching up on my temperature blankets, I’m finished up to February 22.

Because of the stitch I chose, entrelac, I can only crochet in one direction ↖️ and the days are going diagonally ↖️↘️  So now I have to wait 9 more days to have a row to crochet. Since it’ll be into March I decided I would post the current picture after all, not much change in the color way.

Top is Madrid and bottom is Ottawa.  

👋✌️

Maria 🤩

Another snowy day in Ottawa

 It’s been snowing for 2 hours now and the forecast says we’ll be getting 10-15cm by the time it will end. Ugh 🤦‍♀️ 

I’m still working on my temperature blankets but I won’t post pictures until it starts to look a bit different. As of now the colours are not really changing.

I’ve started crocheting thread lace collars and am loving them. I have made 2 so far and will probably make more. 

I love them so much 😍

On the WW and baking front, I made some 2 ingredient dough and wrapped hotdogs in the dough. They were so good 😋 

Rob even ate them without complaining. 

✌️👋🖖

❄️🌨❄️

February and I’m all caught up on my blankets

Hi 👋

Since we’ve been in a lockdown in Ontario my days are actually like Groundhog Day so I really wanted to post this update yesterday. 

The Plastic Canvas is done until February 1st  

This is how I keep track of what colors I’m using ➡️

Done up to January 31st and the white square between months

This one is Madrid Spain 🇪🇸 They are having some nice temperatures for January ⬇️

Ottawa Ontario 🇨🇦 weather has been mild this year, not many changes in temperature but I’m staying true to the temperature and color for that range ⬇️

My WW baking has also been going well, I’ve made the 2 ingredient bagels again this past weekend

 I’m getting better at making them and really love them. I also made a Grace Bread and a banana bread 

The bagels 🥯 are 3 pts on all 3 WW programs 💙💜💚

The Grace bread 🍞 is 3 pts on💙 0 pts on💜 sorry, not sure for 💚

My banana bread 🍌🍞 is 2 pts on 💙 1 pt on 💜 sorry, not sure for 💚

 

Stay safe everyone 

Mxo