Ready for some lite flan and Doulton

So do you even like Flan ???... It's a Mexican desert which I happen to love and so does My oldest daughter and grandchildren..as well as Mom... so for a treat I often make it.  I usually used two cans of evaporated milk.,but that day didn't I only happen to have just one...so I thought to me....well I have plenty of regular milk so that is just what I did...I used one can of evaporated milk then I used the can to measure the amount of milk..

I grabbed a medium bowl turned on the oven to 350 or 375 degrees.
Got a large glass baking dish and five Ramekins placed them inside of the baking dish adding enough warm water going to the middle of the Ramekins..
In the medium bowl, I put 6 eggs and one can of evaporated milk and one can of regular 2% milk (using the can of the evaporated milk to measure) one tablespoon of sugar and a dash of vanilla...mixed it up with an hand mixer and put it through a sieve...into my large four cup measuring cup. I prepared the Carmel for the Ramekins..In a large non stick skillet I put around one large cup of sugar on medium heat to melt down to a dark carmel stirrimg with a wooden spoon at the end to make sure all the lumps were melted if any...once it was done you quickly pour it evenly into the Ramekins 
                        !!! NOT TOUCHING IT AT ALL !!!

 

      Then taking your custard and pouring it over the top of it...

 

This what it looks like... 

Carefully place into oven and cook for ten minutes at the 375 degrees then turn it down to the 350 degrees and cook for about 45 minutes more checking at that point to see if when you insert a knife it comes out clean...

  yummmmmmy ....

And now for some Doulton 

Look what I found up in Mom's darn Attick who would of know I don't think she even knew...

 

Isn't it just wondeful...it was in a ole hat box and when I opened 

wal la  and when I flipped it over 

 

Royal Doulton Fine China

I was so excited..

   It matches just perfect with all my Blue & Whites

                       Vintage napkins wow more exciting...

No chips cracks nothing perfection all the way..well I hope you enjoyed you visit today...I'm off to go with Vee to the doctors to see what is going on...wishing you an enchanting afternoon...
                                    with love Janice

Roses n Tea Cups

Nothing like pretty roses ..rite...I love roses in all forms shapes and sizes. Let me start by saying Thank you to all of you, my readers and followers for helping through this most difficult time.. I can't even tell you how much it means to me...

Vee has decided to stay and we are going to move over to where my older daughter lives...she gave Isaiah to my older daughter for a few days she thinks and I think maybe too she is going through the baby blues which is  not an uncommon thing...So we have an appointment tomorrow to see whats going on.. I didn't get to go to church or listen in because I'm now very sick with the flu and now a cold and I  had to go to the emergency and check my lungs I had a fever and didn't feel well at all. Last year I got pneumonia and my left lung refused to get well..it took five months. So I thought better go check. Everything was okay the doctor said. Well, I think the move will be a good thing for us. I'm ready for a change myself.. I'm hoping to find a little cottage type place...which I know I can't find here in San Francisco, the rent is just sky high here..Richmond Ca. they have a ton of cute little places. So we will see.

 

I hadn't never realized that American Beauty was by Royal Albert until recently...I think this is my most favorite of  my tea cups.

Below is my most newest one by Royal Albert 

  

My October cup

 

So brite and pretty ready for spring time summer...

There is a June cup that I want to buy...Mom's b.day is in June and my granddaughter Rosalinda is in June too...

 

I'm ready for a lovely hot cuppa what about you???

Wouldn't it be lovely to have tea in the summer garden...can't wait for spring to get here...soon soon ... maybe by then I will be in my new cottage with a lovely garden..

Day Dreams

Thank you, my sweet loving friends

wish we could all have tea together..

Isn't this a lovely chair...............
                                                          Wishing you all a lovely new week..Giant hugs from me to you...with love Janice

 

    

  

 

Letting go of you

Letting go isn't the easiest thing ... But it's time to let the baby chick become her own hen....And as hard as it will be for me... It's a must for my own well being..Sometimes we don't realize the things I suppose. It's been a hard and difficult for me...Vee and Isaiah leaving recently was hard...she returned only to say she was leaving again..well that just nearly took my breath away.,she hadn't been here barely over nite..My heart just broke and felt worse than the first time... I don't like it but there isn't much I can do at this point..except to let her see what the life is really like. She is gonna be nineteen in March. The future isn't so bright these days things have changed a whole lot compare to when I started out..but all in all I must let go like I told Mom...she is gonna end up giving me a heart attack..So I decided to say good bye and let her go.. when she left recently it was on bad terms. I'm not sure how I'm gonna handle it this time, but I'm not going to let it stop my life anymore..I will just have to find my own life alone...Which seems to be such a hard hard task at the moment..I think if I didn't have the panic disorder it would be half as difficult. But still living alone and being alone is no fun no matter how you look at it.. I'm so used to having children around etc. I have been praying asking for God to help get me to church. If I could just get that strength to walk over to church on my own it would be the most wonderful thing for me..some times I have to be honest I hate my life because the panic attacks have changed it so much..

I have fought for the last three and a half years..to be okay behind my panic...I have never felt so all alone in my life..and now it will be even be more so now that she wants to leave..I pray this morning that the lord and father above come with their holy spirit and comfort me and guide me through these days to come..to give me the strength that I need to accomplish the task of getting to church..

Wishing everyone a wonderful enchanting weekend..

On a positive note.

I'm gonna be okay

cause I know my Heavenly Father is by my side

Amen

Second hand shopping....

Isn't she just cute, I fell in love with her the moment I saw her..unfortunately I paid $3.99 but I'm okay with it. 

I just love second hand shopping.. it's one of my favorite past times...to see what I can get at a good deal.  I also found a wonderful blue & white dinner plate as well..same as these smaller plates that I got from the Tea house and I think I paid five for them...The only difference is the middle picture on this one is a church the other three small ones have something else on them and lol at the moment I forgot..

 

This is the brand on the back side of it...

 

This a large dinner plate...and it was $ 3.99 amazing...just had a blast 

This stack was only $3.75 they were marked down. They are in pretty good shape to...I was happy 

to find them,..I thought they would be wonderful for Easter...they have pretty lite green o them with yellow and lite blue and pink flowers. So I can imagine them with pretty lite green napkins or lite yellow or both together...

Out of the deal I got one Tea cup & saucer and one Creamer five lunch plates 9 bread plates...

 

O and plus I found a pair of Ralph Lauren Baby shoes ...so sweet four dollars..I couldn't resist them. So I had bought them for baby Isaiah..It was fun visiting the Salvation Army ..

What have you been up to???

                                                                                   Janice

Don't forget to visit my other blog with my crocheting ...

http://beedoily.blogspot.com/ 

Time in a pound cake....

Woke up this morning with a notion to bake something...So I got out some old Victoria magazines...and found this most wonderful vanilla pound cake well at least in my opinion.. So it called to make two loaves and since i haven't anyone around and I'm not trying to eat a ton...so here's the recipe for one loaf..

                                                            Vanilla Pound Cake
1/2 cup of softened butter
1 cup of sugar
3 eggs (sm) or 2 large
1-1/2 cups plus 1/4 cup of sifted cake flour
1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt
1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon of vanilla
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
 Grease and flour loaf pan and set aside
In mixer add butter and beat for one minute then add sugar beat all for three minutes
or until creamy.  Reduce mixer speed to medium add eggs one at a time.
Beating well after each egg, scrapping sides down.  In a medium bowl sift flour and baking soda.
in a small bowl mix together yogurt and vanilla then add them to the butter mixture.
Beating to combine...Reduce mixer speed to low then add flour mixture to butter mixture in 3 batches,
beating well after each addition.  Then fill your loaf pan bake for one hour..
( I had to raise my oven to 325 degrees and bake about 13 minutes longer .... I also sprinkled some lavender flowers over the top of it before I baked it..)

  I really enjoyed this pound cake...I hope that you enjoy it too...with love Janice...

                                                                            

Pink Saturday morning....

GOOD MORNING TO YOU,
                     JUST HERE HANGING AT MOM'S WAITING FOR THE SUN TO COME UP AND I'M OFF TO MY HOUSE...MAYBE IF IT STAYS WARM LIKE YESTERDAY I CAN WORK IN THE GARDEN A BIT...THIS PHOTO IS MY NEW PINK TEA POT THAT I FOUND AND MY MIX N MATCH TEA CUP AND SAUCER...

I LOVE THE SCALLOPED EDGE ON THE SAUCER ...THEY MATCHED UP PRETTY GOOD EVEN THE LADY AT THE TEA SHOP SAID SO ....

LOVING MY PRETTY PINK TEA POT...

MY ROYAL ALBERT OCTOBER TEA CUP TOO...I LOVE THE PINK COSMOS ON IT...

AND ONE OF MY NEW ARCADIA TEA CUPS. I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THEM...I JUST ORDERED A TURIN AND LAST NITE I FOUND FOUR SOUP BOWLS FOR 20.00 THEY SELL FOR 15.00 JUST FOR ONE...SO IT PAYS TO KEEP LOOKING. I CAN'T WAIT TO RECEIVE THE NEW PIECES...JUST HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND ANY DINNER PLATES YET

O SORRY MY PICTURES AREN'T  SO CLEAR...DARN PHONE MY OTHER PHONE WAS SO MUCH BETTER AT TAKING THE PICTURES...

MY VALENINE'S TABLE..

I STARTED IT YESTERDAY THE PHOTO DOESN'T DO IT JUSTICE...ITS MUCH PRETTIER...I KNOW THE GIRL, MY GRANDDAUGHTER'S WILL BE HAPPY WHEN THE SEE IT AND ALL THE CANDY AND CUTE THINGS ...CAN'T WAIT ... I JUST HAVE TO GET MY NAPKINS AND UTENSILS ON....WISHING YOU A MOST LOVELY WEEKEND....WITH LOVE JANICE

 

Living alone,.........

As I sat there today changing my Dinning Room table for Valentine's Day and my Tea Party. Trying to keep myself busy..It was so quite in the house just me and sweetpea and the two birds....no sounds of nothing....It seems so strange cause I have always had children around me...who'd a thought I'd end up all alone.........But I'm trying to cope with it...I often think of Baby Isaiah and my mind tries to picture him a little bit bigger Wondering what he looks like now. Hoping he is okay is he smiling a lot,.I see the empty crib and it just hurts me inside..

WITH LOVE JANICE..........

  

WORKING ON A VALENTINES DAY TEA PARTY

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE, STILL HERE AT MOM'S HOUSE BUT I'M GOING TO BE LEAVING FOR HOME TODAY...I HAD TO RENEW MY LICENSE YESTERDAY. PRETTY SIMPLE JUST AN EYE TEST AND A NEW PHOTO..BOY I HAVEN'T DONE THAT FOR A FEW YEARS IT WAS KIND OF FUNNY BEING THERE..I THINK THE LAST TIME WAS IN 2005 FOR A ADDRESS CHANGE...BUT I'M GLAD THAT'S OVER WITH ...SO I DECIDED I'M GOING TO DO A VALENTINE'S DAY MINI TEA PARTY WITH THE GIRLS, MY GRANDDAUGHTER'S AND MY OLDEST DAUGHTER.

 

YESTERDAY AFTER THE DMV, ME AND MY SON'S GIRLFRIEND WENT TO THE TEA HOUSE...I BOUGHT SOME SUGARS AND HONEY SPOON'S AND TWO NEW TEA CUPS.

NOT THAT I NEED THEM BUT I'M TRYING TO COLLECT THE MONTH'S FROM ROYAL ALBERT'S COLLECTION.

YESTERDAY I FOUND OCTOBER'S WHICH IN MY OPINION VERY PRETTY.

AND MY SON'S GIRL FRIEND SAID OCTOBER WAS HER BIRTHDAY SO THAT MADE IT EVEN  BETTER TO BUY IT. LOL SO I TOLD HER WHEN SHE COMES TO VISIT SHE CAN USE IT.  SHE LAUGHED AND SAID YOUR FUNNY WITH ALL YOU TEA THINGS.. CAUSE MY BOYS ARE SO INTO A HARDER LIFE STYLE...WHICH OF COURSE I DON'T AGREE WITH BUT CAN'T DO NOTHING ABOUT IT EXCEPT PRAY THAT ONE DAY THEY WILL REALIZE.

ANYWAY'S BACK TO THE TEA PARTY...I ALSO FOUND A PRETTY PINK TEA POT...WHICH IM EXCITED ABOUT. SHE DIDN'T HAVE ANY IN THE STORE BUT WHEN I HAD ASKED HER SHE SAID HOLD ON LET ME RUN ACROSS THE STREET TO THE RESTAURANT SHE HAD REMEMBERED SEEING SOMETHING IN THE MORNING AND IT WAS FOR SALE.  SHE ASKED ME TO WAIT AND I'M GLAD THAT I HAD.

IT'S VERY CUTE AND I FOUND ONE MIX N MATCH TEA CUP AND SAUCER WHICH THE SAUCER IS JUST TO SWEET.

I WILL HAVE TO TAKE PICTURES FOR YOU LATER THEY ARE ALL WRAPPED UP RITE NOW.  LATER ON WHEN I GO HOME TODAY AND I UNWRAP THEM.

WELL I HAVE STARTED THE MENU ALREADY.  I FOUND THESE LITTLE ROAST BEEF SANDWICHES.. AND CHEESE CAKE ON A STICK AND I HAVE A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS IN MIND GOING TO BE POSTING MORE REAL SOON..THERE ISN'T TO MUCH TIME LEFT

I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY TODAY WITH LOVE JANICE

 

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