Which Word: Word Counters

 

 

Counting my words again. 

Today my fellow Word Counters and I are sharing our monthly group post. Each month one group member picks  a number between 12 and 50. All participating bloggers are then challenged to write something (or a few somethings, as the case may be) using that exact number of words. Today we all share what we came up with. 

 This month's number is 18. 
It was chosen by Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings!

As I've been doing in these Word Counters posts, I've chosen a theme and am using my word count multiple times in keeping with the theme. This month I've chosen the theme Word.

 

~ To say I chose the theme "word" is misleading, I didn't. In retrospect, I should have chosen . . . something.

 

~ Mind blank, I turned to College Boy, eating his breakfast. "Look around," I said, give me a word.

 

~ He'll pick something, nature based I assumed, "I'll write about it in eighteen word snippets," I thought. Easy.

 

~ "Word," he said.

"What kind of inspiration is that?" 

"You said to pick a word. I did, word." 

~ "I meant to pick a word I can write about, like (looking out the window) green, or sky."

 

Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing

 

~ "I include recipes in my posts so you could even have picked "blueberry" or "cinnamon" or "breakfast" or . . ."

 

~ "Using words and writing about them are two different things," I whined, continuing to make my case.

 

~ But once he's got me, he knows he's won a game he wasn't even aware he was playing.

 

~ "I quit. You beat me at my own game. Word? I can't write a whole post about word."

~ "Word," he responded.

"So, wait, are you saying "word" meaning okay? Or "word" meaning word's still the word?

~ Walking away laughing, I shouted after him "you're evil."

"I Learned from the best," he replied, winking.

"Word."

 

Here are links to the other Word Counters posts:

On the Border 

Messymimi’s Meanderings 

 

Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing

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Printable Recipe

Ingredients:
1 tube (8 count, 12 oz) refrigerated cinnamon rolls

1/4 cup blueberry jam

1 TBSP brown sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 cup blueberries

2 TBSP cream cheese, room temperature

Directions:

*Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease an 8 inch pie plate. 

*Set aside the icing that comes with the rolls.

*Cut the cinnamon rolls in half lengthwise. Set the tops aside. Place the bottoms in the pie plate.

*Whisk together blueberry jam, brown sugar, and cinnamon, then mix in the blueberries.

*Dollop the blueberry mixture into the centers of the rolls in the pie plate, then add a cinnamon roll top to each. 

*Bake for 20 minutes.

*While the rolls are baking, whisk the icing with the cream cheese.

*Once cooked, remove the rolls from the oven, drizzle with the cream cheese icing.

Holy Wholly Homophones

Before I even start this post, let me address the elephant in the room. Yes, I know it's October. And as I say every year when we start seeing pumpkin and Halloween recipes everywhere by the end of August, you won't be finding them here, not until October, then it's full out Halloween time.

Well, that was then and this is now. Gross, scary or just plain pumpkin, you'd find Halloween all over this blog for the full month. But you all know that my kids are grown, I don't make as many Coffin Cookies, Brownie Brittle Monster Pops, Black and White Brownie Bats, Spider in his Web Cakes or Jack-O-Lantern Treat Bowls. Although this month I will dabble in some themed recipes, maybe mention a witch or black cat, I won't be immersed in it, because watching the faces of the boys and their friends when I brought those treats to the table really was the fun part. Even though this month on Baking In A Tornado won't be all out Halloween, if you're looking for some really fun recipes for the occasion, I've got plenty. Be sure to check out the ones linked above, as well as this post: Halloween: 35 Baking In A Tornado Recipes.

Today, instead of playing with my food, I'm playing with words. Homophones, to be exact. You know like ones the grammar police (ask to see my badge) are always correcting, like "your" and "you're". But I'm talking about triple homophones, like if you added "yore" in there. Or, speaking of there, like "there", "their" and "they're", or "to", "too", and "two". Those are the common ones, but there are so many not so common homophones. 

Like:

I don't use doe when making my dough ,it's meatless, doh (thank you, Homer Simpson, for that one)! PS: there's not one flower in my flour either (I checked). 

No ewe either, and nor would I poison you with the berry of the Yew.

Oh and meet a vegetarian and they're really mete out the punishment if I actually did add that meat.

Since we're in the kitchen here, some general cooking advice: weigh your whey or you're on the way to disaster.

And speaking of disaster, this is for anyone who enters my home while I'm baking, if you hear me yell "fore", I've got more than four ingredients in the mixer, you'd be wise to duck.

Hubs knows this from experience, now he'll heel so later he doesn't have to heal. 

Aint no lie baby buy, by, bye. (OK, didn't use those correctly, but I took one look at those words and couldn't help myself. 
  
By way of apology, I'm sharing this delicious Fall recipe. Although to fit in the dish, I had to pare down the pairs of pears.

Butterscotch Toffee Pear Crisp

When rowing, you can put your ore in the water or, if you want to actually get somewhere, you'll need to use your oar.

That's just for lakes, though anyone who sees the waves of the high seas, had best seize a seat on a sturdier vessel.  

Lake or sea, boat or ship, if you don't want to be praying to all that is holy, I wholly recommend you make sure that vessel is not holey.
 

And though I'm no pirate, when I was angry, I'd look the boys square in the eye, and their only correct response was "aye, aye".  

Happy October, everyone. Just a bit of advice, if you meet someone named Leatherface, Jigsaw, Freddy Kruger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers or Chucky, run. Do not go with them. It's Halloween, know when to say "no".

Butterscotch Toffee Pear Crisp        
                                                       ©www.BakingInATornado.com

Printable Recipe

Ingredients:
1 pie crust
1 TBSP flour 
 
3/4 stick butter, softened
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup quick oats 
1/3 toffee baking chips

6 Asian pears, peeled, cored and sliced
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 tsp ginger
1 cup butterscotch baking chips

 
Directions:
*Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Roll your crust out to about a 10 X 13 inch rectangle so it will fit into and up the sides of an 8 X 11 baking dish.
*Spread the 1 TBSP flour over the pie crust. Flip the pie crust over into a lightly greased 8 X 11 baking dish so the flour is on the bottom. Fit into and up all sides of the dish. Fold under any excess crust so it doesn't hang over the side of the dish.
*Beat together the butter, 1/3 cup of brown sugar, cinnamon, flour and oats. Mix in the toffee baking chips. Set aside to use as topping
*In a large bowl, whisk together 3/4 cup brown sugar, cornstarch and ginger. Mix in the pear slices and the butterscotch baking chips. Arrange evenly in the prepared pie shell.
*Dollop the topping over the fruit. Bake for 40 minutes, loosely tent with tin foil and bake another 15 minutes.