Author: Wanda

I am a Catholic widow, mother, grandmother, friend and according to my kids just a little bit crazy. My faith is paramount in my life. Spending time with my family, especially my four grandchildren is one of my most treasured blessings. I love Redskins football, Phillies baseball, NASCAR, quilting, genealogy, and am a bibliophile and struggling blogger.

Raspberry Lemon Coffee Cake

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Gluten Free Raspberry Lemon Coffee Cake

This sounds yummy!

GLUTEN-FREE RASPBERRY LEMON COFFEE CAKE

Prep time
15 mins
Cook time
20 mins
Total time
35 mins
Author: The Real Food Dietitians
Recipe type: Breakfast | Gluten-free | Vegetarian
Serves: 10 servings
INGREDIENTS
For Cake:
  • 2¼ cup oat flour
  • 1 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 3 whole eggs
  • ½ cup Kalona SuperNatural Sour Cream
  • ⅓ cup honey + additional to drizzle on top
  • 1 lemon juiced + zest of ½ lemon (zest is optional – will make cake more lemony)
  • 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
  • ½ cups fresh raspberries (or berries of choice)
  • ¼ cup sliced almonds
For Lemon Sour Cream Sauce:
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 or 10 inch round baking dish (or square).
  2. In a mixing bowl, combine oat flour, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
  3. In another bowl (or electric mixer), whisk 3 eggs. Then mix in sour cream until smooth. Then add honey, lemon juice, zest and vanilla extract and stir until well combined.
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Once just combined, stir in raspberries gently.
  5. Transfer batter to baking dish and sprinkle with sliced almonds.
  6. Bake for 16-20 minutes or until center is baked through.
  7. While cake is baking, in a small bowl, combine Lemon Sour Cream Sauce ingredients.
  8. Once cake is done baking, remove from oven and drizzle with additional honey (about 1-2 tbsp.) and lemon zest if you would like more lemony flavor.
  9. Allow to cool for 10-15 minutes before serving.
  10. Serve cake with a dollop of Lemon Sour Cream Sauce on top.
NOTES
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NUTRITION INFORMATION
Serving size: 1/10 of cake Calories: 255 Fat: 11 g Carbohydrates: 34 g Sugar: 13 g Sodium: 165 mg Fiber: 4 g Protein: 8 g

Trains

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Daily Prompt:  Tender

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My husband collected model trains.  His favorite line was the Pennsylvania Rail Road. He had so many locomotives with their matching tenders that he used to keep by themselves to display along the walls of his train room.  My favorite line is the Chessie System.  it’s no longer called that, but it’s logo used to be a kitten.  So, Gary also had several locomotives and tenders in that line as well.  A tender is the car that was right behind the steam engine which held the coal that was used to fuel the fire for the steam.

He had his train from when he was a child and I had mine.  Both of us grew up with trains being a part of our Christmas holidays.  So, when we had children, each of them got a train set for their first Christmas.  Every year we added to the layout and the rolling stock.  My son got trains at Christmas for several years.  All of our kids love trains just like Gary and I do.

We have four grandchildren now and they love trains too.  We got the boys several sets over the years and both girls got a set for their first Christmas.  I am so happy that the kids have the trains their grandfather got for them.  They will have memories of their Pop Pop and their trains.

I have so many memories of Christmas’ and trains through the years.

Wanda

2017 Kindness Challenge: Week 5

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2017 Kindness Challenge:  Choosing Kindness

I grew up in the north east part of the country.  Many people who live up there look at you as if you have two heads when you say hello to them on the street.  I really didn’t know that there were places where strangers spoke to each other and it was not only accepted, but expected.

My first trip to the south was a real eye opener.  Strangers would speak to me with smiles on their faces.  Now I am not saying that everyone in the south displays this kindness. There are no absolutes here, but the overall attitude is one of friendliness and kindness. Which I hate to say is not necessarily how it is where I come from.

I began to speak to strangers when I returned home and was surprised how good I felt doing so.  And after speaking to people I didn’t know that I would see often at the grocery store or other places I frequented, I wore them down and they began to smile and say hello to me too.

So this weeks challenge is something I have already been working on.  I do try to always put myself in someone else’s situation and be more accepting of their reactions.  I have always been a little intolerant with some of my responses to things beyond my control.  I am working very hard to not respond unkindly to the messengers.  I think I am making progress.

Colossians 3:12  Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience

Wanda

 

 

Snow

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Daily Prompt:  Crisp

I hate cold weather.  I hate snow.  Although, when it is falling and drifts appear in the crisp cold air it is indeed beautiful.  That is why several years ago we left Pennsylvania and moved south to North Carolina.

I told my husband that if we still needed a snow shovel, we hadn’t moved south far enough.  I told him that they should not even have to carry them in the stores.  He never minded the cold or the snow, but the fact that we no longer had a son that lived at home to shovel in the winter, he didn’t fight me too hard over the move.

Our first winter in North Carolina, we actually had snow.  I could’t believe it.  However, it snowed at 9 AM and it was gone by noon.  It’s only snowed a couple more times since our move.

As for the beauty of the winter’s snow, I get plenty of it from the TV, and pictures right here on the internet.  And I can keep warm while I enjoy it.

Wanda

Buildings

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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge:  Buildings

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My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge:  Buildings

 

 

The first one is geese that visit daily at my home in North Carolina.

Next is a cute little waterfront restaurant here in Orlando, Florida.

The next photo is of the beach front high rise condos in South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida.  One of them is my son’s place.

The last photo is from Animal Kingdom here in Walt Disney World in Florida.  It’s an old building that is part of the bird show.

 

 

No Whining

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100 Word Challenge:  Whine

One of my passions is quilting. I learned how to quilt in 2005 after moving to North Carolina. Since I began I’ve taken many classes from internationally known teachers. One teacher, Bonnie Hunter, http://quiltville.com, designs beautiful scrap quilts.

Bonnie offers a mystery quilt she designed each year online. The steps are usually made up of many pieces cut and put together. You do not get the pattern at one time. Hence it’s called a mystery quilt.

One of the first thing she mentions in her instructions for participating is “No Whining” She actually includes it in her directions.
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Wanda

 

Polish or Polish

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Daily Prompt: Polish

When I was a child I moved in with my grandmother.  She was just like a mom to me.  I actually called her mom.  I lost her in 1977 and I still miss her dearly.

Anyway, my mom had so many antiques.  I grew to love them just as she did.  I learned to take care of them and keep house from her.  Along with her antiques she had beautiful silver tea sets and serving pieces she had gotten as wedding gifts.  It became my job to polish them.  Mom had a trick to keep her silver shining longer.  After we polished the silver she covered it with saran wrap.  That way when she knew she would be entertaining, she just had to remove the plastic wrap.

Mom worked full time so she had developed many short cuts to keeping house.  Don’t misunderstand, her home was immaculate.  She was just imaginative in her tasks.

We lived just down the street from my Aunt Bunny and Uncle Bob and my three cousins. My Aunt was first generation of Polish decent.  Her mother was a tiny strong woman who adopted me as one of her grandchildren and I grew to love her too.  Her grasp of the English language was pretty good, however, there was one time that she had everyone holding their breath by what she said.

I had just had my first child and she had colic.  We were at my Aunt’s home to celebrate my cousin’s birthday.  I was trying to sooth the baby and Babciu took her from my arms and said to me “your no good mother”.  As I said you could have heard a pin drop. Everyone thought that I would take offense especially since I was a brand new mother.  I said to Babciu, show me what to do.  Everyone smiled and finally started to breathe.

It wasn’t too long after that we lost Babciu.  Even though this could have been a disaster, it is one of my favorite memories of the time I got to spend with this amazing woman.  I had lost grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins when my mother left my dad and me.  I was truly blessed that Babciu was willing to accept me into her life.

Wanda