Whole Wheat Oat Bread

[recipe]

I made two loaves of bread and a tray of rolls. I recommend reducing the baking time by a few minutes. Spraying the oven for steam produces a crispy crust not suitable for dinner rolls.

Sand Run Metro Park

There are 41 miles of the multipurpose Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail in Summit County. The 995-acre Sand Run Metro Park opened in 1929, but the area has been welcoming visitors for centuries. The land surrounding Mingo Pavilion was a campsite for Mingo Indians. Portage Path was once an important Native American trail between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas rivers; later, it was the western boundary of the United States. A high ridge above the Wadsworth Area was a lookout point for General Elijah Wadsworth, who made his camp near the present-day Old Portage Area during the War of 1812. In the 1930s, Sand Run Parkway and many of the surrounding shelters and structures were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

The Flats

Card Box

This was the card box I made for my friend's wedding.  It was a blue, old fashioned suit case.  I ripped out the satin lining.  The top was replaced by a mural of map-like paper, enhanced with music note washi tape, and embellishments of their planned destinations in Europe.  For the bottom of the suitcase, I loving hand stitched in lace and tuelling ruffles.  I finally found a use for my upholstery needles! 

Happy Birthday

I made this lovely leather journal for my mother. I am enjoying leather working as a potential new hobby. I got excited, and forgot to take pictures of the finished product. The motif is acorns and oak leaves with a fox on the front. I sewed in two sets of pages. It has also been dyed brown and  has a string closure.

Work flag

Our quarterly Hampton work project was designing a flag that shows our regional "Hamptonality", the thing that makes our hotel special, the reason people visit us. Nobody had any "good" suggestions so we went with generic Cleveland things. Malley's chocolate (4 miles away from us), the Christmas Story house (12 miles), and a football for the Browns. I was careful not to use any copywrited images like the Browns logo or the NBA trophy, or the Captain America shield (for the Marvel movies being filmed here).

Lemon Cashew Tart

Coconut milk
1 envelope gelatin
2 cups raw cashews soaked in a bowl of cold water overnight
4 dates
1 cup dates
1 cup raw almonds
1 cup raw pecans
1 lemon tested
1/2 c. Lemon juice
1 tsp. Vanilla
Can of coconut milk
Make crust. Puree cashews, milk, salt, vanilla, dates until smooth. In a saucepan heat maple syrup with gelatin. Add to blender. Firms up in about two hours. This does not have the consistency or mouth feel of cheesecake. It has a definite coconut milk after flavor. It makes an interesting nut tart, but a horrible cheesecake replacement.