Marshmallow Recipe

I recently was in France and had the most delicious homemade marshmallows, and I want to give it a try!!! I trolled the web, and found this:

Homemade Marshmallows

2 env. (2 tbs.) unflavored gelatin
1 1/4 c. water
2 c. sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. powdered sugar

Soften gelatin in 3/4 cup of water and set aside. Place remaining 1/2 cup water and granulated sugar in medium sized saucepan. Cook until small amount dropped in cold water forms soft ball (240 degrees F). Remove syrup from heat, add softened gelatin and stir until almost cold. Add salt and flavoring. Beat until syrup is white and thick (8 minutes with an electric beater). Pour to 1 inch thickness in two 8 inch square pans that have been greased and dusted with powdered sugar. Let set in cool place about an hour -- do not place in refrigerator. Turn out on board that has been well dusted with powdered sugar. Cut into 1 inch cubes.

Thanks Mary! Link to the original here!

Thanks Whimsy & Spice for the lovely marshmallow image!

Like Christmas

Seriously. I was so excited to get these at the beginning of September. COMPOST BINS! Now I don't have to feel excessively guilty about the food waste - if only I could put other things in like cotton and bioplastics. I'm sure it will come in time, but for now its certainly a thrill to have industrial compost pickup!

My Messy Bedroom

So I know I've blogged about this before... but my room is a mess, and I have a cold today. Although its a gorgeous summer day out there, I'm inclined to stay inside in my horrible "inside only" clothes and clean. I'll let you know if it actually gets cleaner! Though I'm inclined to paint instead - but I have to move some stuff out of the way before I can do that. I'm not even going to put a picture here about it. I'll try to get a picture of it when its clean... And in the process declutter my life - I will be certain to recycle as much as I can!

The downfall

Well, my garbage-free life was a disaster. I am no good at it at all - I like chocolate WAY too much and I can't plan ahead enough to get chocolate only from Unpackaged... I surely did try to keep it up... the one thing I did do was create lots of really wonderful things from my Dumpster Diving forays. I am really good at getting cardboard now, and relatively fearless in obtaining scrap paper. On that note... I put up a couple of the sets of instructions up on Instructables - and within 8 hrs my little sewn bound notebook was a favourite! How exciting. Oh yeah, back to what I was talking about... Garbage-freeness. It didn't work. I tried. I have cut back my garbage exponentially and most importantly it has made me really think about what I buy and the packaging it comes in. People are starting to care more and more, hopefully we keep it up and it doesn't stay in the realm of the upper-middle class and disseminates to everyone.

Dumpster Diving Grossness

I've been pretty lucky with my dumpster diving in general... I've stayed away from most gross things... but today I didn't have the same luck. I brought home a really nice pristine box from a baby's toy. I was pumped - it was nice thin cardboard... just what I needed. Then I opened the box. At first I just saw all of the other packaging that usually comes with such a toy... but it smelled a bit funny, like a litter box... I was looking for the source of the smell and there it was in the corner... A diaper. It wasn't a totally gross diaper, just a wrapped up diaper. Makes you really think about recycling and all the sorting and all the regular garbage that goes in - and it makes me wonder how they sort it. I'll have to look into that some more...

My Room...

My room has become a garbage tip.  Now this isn't big news for anyone who really knows me - I am a messy child - but with all this reusing things have gotten out of control!  There is cardboard EVERYWHERE!  Wish me luck in using it all!

Yucky!

This loaf of bread is disgusting!!! I'm not even going to post the recipe because it is that bad, here's the link just so you know NOT to make this one. I will have to find some other way to use it, because I've been trying to eat it and I just can't its gross even slathered with butter an jam.