Now to go back two weeks.
Tuesday the 19th we were planting cabbages and we borrowed some planting devices from the High School Agriculture Farm . They are a pretty fun tool to use. They look sort of like a pogo stick. This is a tool that makes transplanting very easy. You stick it in the ground, put a plant in the opening on top and it slides down then you shut the handles and it puts it in a perfect sized hole. We had two of these planter things so it became a race with us interns. It became a Farm Olympics Event.
Thursday 21st after market and karate we had two people from the singles ward come over and we were divided into teams and played Pictionary . I have discovered that I get really into games. It was a lot of fun! At one point us girls had to draw Moscow, the cow I drew ended up looking more like a pig.
On Friday the 22nd we canned pears. I also helped volunteer at the Ragnar Race. The Ragna r Race from what I understand is a long race that goes over two days, twelve runners in each team. It is kind of like a relay race in someways. Monte was running in the race and Laura was one of the driver's for the team.
When me and Jordan arrived at our shift (which was to be from 1:30pm to 8:30pm) they were almost done so we loaded up the trailer and were done in an hour and a half.
Because Laura and Monte wouldn't be back that night I was put in charge of making sure the milking got done. Mat left the bucket filled with eggs on the seat of the ranger, (It is just easier to carry the milk and the eggs up in the ranger.) As I was going up the hill back to the house, the ranger stalled and began to roll back down the hill. The bucket with eggs fell out, and several eggs broke. Mat says there were only about 32 eggs to start with. Well I broke all but 8. To top things off the ranger wouldn't start. Katie called down is everything okay? After I had told her of my trauma she told me to come up and we will sort things out. I walked up the rest of the way and entered the house in tears. Mat went back down and carried the milk can up, (it had about 3 gallons of milk in it, and Mat carried it up a slightly steep hill.) Mat and Katie told me there was no use crying over cracked eggs.
On Saturday the 23rd Katie and I ran down to do chores in the morning and were pleasantly surprised to see Jordan in the okra already harvesting and all of our chores done.
I told Jordan that doing this had earned him a good many brownie points. He asked if it was enough for a batch of brownies? I made some Cookie Dough Brownies the following Tuesday evening. They turned out very well and yummy! The Recipe follows.....
Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies
Brownies: (adapted from Hershey’s Kitchens)
1 c. butter
3/4 c. Hershey’s cocoa
2 1/4 c. granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 c. mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Prepare 13×9″ baking pan by laying a piece of foil in the bottom and up the sides. Spray with cooking spray or butter the foil.
Melt 2 sticks of butter in a medium saucepan; add cocoa, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Add sugar, salt, eggs, and vanilla; beat with a spoon until combined. Add flour and baking powder; mix well. Stir in chocolate chips. Spread batter into pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Until toothpick comes out clean or the top bounces back when you pat it. Allow brownies to cool completely before moving on to the next step.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Filling: (adapted from Taste of Home)
1 c. butter, softened
1 c. packed light brown sugar
1/2 c. granulated sugar
4 Tbsp. milk
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 c. all-purpose flour
1 c. mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Combine first 5 ingredients in a mixing bowl and cream together. Add flour and stir until combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Spread in an even layer on top of cooled brownies. Chill before adding chocolate glaze.
Chocolate Glaze:
1 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 Tbsp. Crisco shortening
Melt chocolate with shortening and stir until smooth. Spread over chilled cookie dough layer.
Add chopped walnuts on top.(back to Saturday) After we finished the daily harvest Katie and I went to Bite of Las Vegas. My first time attending a live concert. I got to see Ryan Star, Plain White T's, K'NAAN, Sara Bareilles, and Switchfoot. My favorite performer was K'NAAN. I actually missed most of Ryan Star. Sara Bareilles lost many points in my opinion because she swore in between each song. The first time she swore she was like "Oh there are children here so I shouldn't swear." Then she used even fouler words the rest of the time. The only song I really liked of Plain White T's was their song Rhythm of Love. Switchfoot is definitely not my style of music. I could feel the ground shaking beneath my feet because it was so loud. However I did have a lot of fun with Katie the whole time. And I am glad to have had the experience.
Sunday 24th Katie came to church with us. Katie is a Christian, and it was her first time ever attending an L.D.S. church.
I can't think of anything of importance of this last week except the things that happened on Friday.
Friday 29th was the big Shareholder Potluck. All day we were cleaning up the farm. The Patterson's came and decorated the farm and made it look AWESOME! All the food was delicious!!!! Laura made the yummiest pumpkin bread I have ever tasted. As soon as I get the recipe I will post it on here. We has a fire going....(on the website it said bonfire, what it really was.... was only about 3 logs.) the evening was chilly. In fact every morning and evening now is chilly enough to want a jacket and gloves. I had never imagined that Nevada got slightly cold.
Every day we have to harvest green beans. Two picture books always come in my head as I am harvesting.... the first being Cowboy and Octopus with the line... " I cooked all my favorites for you. Here's beans and bacon, bacon and beans, and here's beans with just a little bit of bacon." the second being Skippyjon Jones with several of the lines that the Los Chimichangos say.
As we are scooting along the walkway path harvesting we usually get bean leaves or beans sticking to our shirts or shorts. So one of the common phrases between us now is "sitting on beans". Mat jokes that he is going to make an album with that title. The next album would be called "Better than Beans" because after harvesting the never ending row of beans anything is better than beans.
Lots of good moments over various vegetables.
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