Sheep and Friendship Bread

This week went by super fast, and part of the highlights of the week included the sheep that you can see in our pictures. (Well, the first picture is merely the fog that lay over the field when I got to school one morning - I thought this was beautiful). As for the sheep, one morning we had a bare green field, and the next day, we heard lots of "baaaaing" from our classroom. The third picture down shows the proximity of the sheep from my classroom door, so you can imagine how fun it was to teach over their noise this week! If I didn't realize how rural our area was before, I definitely realize it now!

As for the bottom picture... I've been getting in this habit of making Amish Friendship Bread. My friend Kristin brought me a loaf of friendship bread and a starter to make my own when she came up to visit a couple of weeks ago. This bread can not be made without a starter, so you either need to get it from someone, or you have to save yours and continue to bake every 10 days... Well, for the past month, I've been doing just that! The bread is so good (it's more like cake then bread) and we've become addicted. Yesterday was my third day making the bread, and I decided to get creative by putting chocolate chips and cranberries in it - and I don't think I'll ever go back to the orginial process - it's delicious! And every time I make it, I create 4 more starters - so I keep one and give three away to friends - hence the name. All you need to make it are your basic baking ingredients, plus instant vanilla pudding... as pictured... I tried to capture each step this time around (the back picture is the starter for the recipe - it doesn't look to appetizing until you realize what the final result tastes like! It's been fun giving it away to friends and being able to eat a declicious dessert every day! :)