“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

-Aristotle

Spare Time

What do you do in your spare time? Today, I found myself with a lot of spare time, and what better way to spend it than…..GOING SHOPPING!! Just kidding. Well, I did go shopping, but not clothes shopping, household supply shopping. It’s very strange to me. These days I enjoy going to stores and getting things like soaps, towels, cleaning spray, and whatever else you need to clean the house. even though most of the time we don’t even need it. it’s like I could spend forever at Target or Walgreens. For those of you who don’t know, Target is AMAZING, and Wallgreens is a also great, but a little less so than Target. As I was saying, today, I was walking up and down the isles at Walgreens and left with this stuff. Can you believe that all of this was $25?! I was shocked at how cheap the laundry detergent was….4/$8! Wow. And this toothpaste was buy two get one free. After leaving Wallgreens I was thinking about how those people who coupon do it! Those people are astonishing. Im talking, getting carts and carts full of stuff for a total of like $10 bucks. Seems challenging, but should I try it?….hmmmmmm. Nah, I could only imagine how much time they spend looking for coupons, sorting coupons for each store, and annoying store workers they do. But for now, I am happy with my finds today.

xoxo,e

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Vanilla Bean Scones

Last week I made vanilla bean scones. Like I have said before, I am not the best when it comes to making things in the kitchen, BUT these turned out pretty good. I got the recipe off of Pinterest and have made them a few times since then.

Ingredients~

Scones

  • 2C Flour

  • 1/3C Sugar

  • 1½ tsp. Baking Powder

  • ½ tsp. Salt ( I use coarse sea salt)

  • ½C (1 stick) Unsalted butter- cut into cubes

  • ½C Cold, heavy whipping cream

  • 2 tsp. Vanilla extract

Frosting

  • 1C Powdered sugar

  • Seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean

  • 2 tbs. Milk (I use oat milk)

After combining all of the dry ingredients in the KitchenAid, I threw in the butter and then streamed in the heavy whipping cream. Next, I added the vanilla extract and pre- heated the oven to 370°F. Once the dough made itself into a ball, turn the mixer off and separate the dough into two disk like shapes, about 1 inch high. Then, use a dough cutter (I used a plastic one with some oil on it so the dough wouldn’t stick) and cut the dough into sixths. I lined the cookie sheet with parchment paper (so the scones wouldn’t stick) and placed them in the oven. The recipe calls for the scones to bake for 16- 20 minutes. I usually cook them for about 16- 18 minutes or until the bottoms turn the slightest hint of brown. While the scones are baking in the oven, I wash the mixing bowl and prepare the frosting. For the frosting, you add your powder sugar, vanilla bean seeds, and milk. Let the mixer incorporate all of those ingredients until the frosting is a semi- thickish, gooey texture. After the scones are done baking, take them out, let them cool for a few minutes and then take each one, turn it upside down, dip into the frosting, and viola, vanilla bean scones!

Give it a try!

xoxo,e