Sunday, April 7, 2013

April Showers

A nice warm and rainy day can mean two things in North Idaho, mushroom hunting and turkey hunting are starting up. Oh yes those little hidden treasures in the forest that can elude us but taste so good sauted in butter and put on top of a juicy steak. I am talking morel mushrooms.



 
Yesterday I was wandering around our garden area in the backyard and noticed that we have mushrooms growing there. Not something we could eat but hey the possiblity of other mushrooms growing was starting to come to light. So as a family we decided to trek into the woods today and explore a bit even though it was raining. We unfortunately didn't find any but we all had fun and got out. A few wet and dirty feet didn't stop any of us. Especially Hunter who loved running ahead of us so he could stomp in the puddles before we could say no. Samantha took the sneaky route and claimed she didn't know where we were talking about. I will be searching for rain boots for them soon if we plan on taking them out in the woods more.
 
So before we went out on our little adventure I had already planned on dinner for the night. Some great tasting cheese bread to go with some ham and potato soup. I found the ham and potato soup recipe from this blog. She has a bunch of other yummy recipes that I think I might be trying in the future. The bread recipe makes me so glad that I can have wheat. It was so moist and yummy. I remember making it from an old bread machine instruction booklet so I was on a mission to find one that would live up to it. I had great success from one on Taste of Home. I gave one loaf for my dad with a big bowl of soup and the other loaf stayed home with us. It is almost gone so I think I might be making more this week. At least it's easy enough.
 
I am so glad to have a great end to the day because tomorrow is the official end of my spring break. I didn't get hardly anything done but it will just make me wanna get things done this week. Tomorrow its my cooking class so I get to learn a new recipe. So far I have made 3 new recipes and enjoyed them all with a little bit of tweaking. I just hope the next 5 weeks go quick because then it means its summertime for me. Yay!!
 





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