This is Hilton Head beach, South Carolina! This week has been fun even though we have had a bit of rain Sunday and Monday. Today the temperatures have been in the mid 80 degrees.
The water is chilly but nice, my wife’s toes in the water!
It’s turn fall, our low temperature have been in the mid to upper 40’s degrees F all week. It won’t be long and the leaves will be changing.
Yesterday afternoon we had a shower and then this beautiful rainbow appeared with the sun in the background. It was stunning and made me smile 🙂
Has your weather started to change?
Check out my cutting boards, serving boards and cheese boards, they make great gifts!
Birds Eye Maple
I have added a new Cheese Board or it can also be used as a cutting board. Size I have available are 8 inch round, 10 inch round and 12 inch round. The handle adds another 4 inch plus to the length depending on the size board. You can find my new boards on this page, Cheese Boards
The first picture (above) is Birds Eye Maple, very beautiful and hard to find.
Walnut
Walnut is very popular and makes a beautiful board. Many times the walnut will have curly designs in the wood and cream color streaks that add character.
Quilted Flamed Maple
Quilted Flamed Maple is very beautiful, you can see the beautiful flame colors in the boards above.
All of my boards are hand sanded to a smooth finish then finished with numerous coats of food safe mineral oil then top coated with mineral oil and beeswax. All boards are shipped with a tin of my Wood Conditioner!
Makes a very nice gift for someone who likes to cook and entertain family and friends
Charcuterie boards, cheese boards and cutting boards make great Christmas gifts or a nice anytime gift for a friend that likes to cook or entertain! If you get them engraved it makes the gift more personal!!
Do you have a favorite cutting board that you use all the time? I would love to see pictures of your boards!
For lunch today with our chicken salad croissant, I decided to make a broccoli salad. This is a southern broccoli salad because this recipe uses Duke’s mayonnaise. Everyone in the south uses and love Dukes Mayo. The dressing is sweet but also has a little tartness from the white vinegar, it makes this recipe very delicious!
Ingredients:
Dressing:
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup Mayonnaise (Dukes Mayo)
1 teaspoon white vinegar
Broccoli
raisins, add to taste – I generally add a hand full
small red onion, add to taste
bacon, 3-4 strips cooked or use real bacon bits in a jar
Cheddar cheese
Start by washing and cutting the broccoli into bit size pieces. Cook 3-4 strips of bacon or use the real bacon bits in a jar. Let the bacon drain, then chop into bits. Chop small red onion, add as much or little as you like.
Combine all of the dressing ingredients together in a small bowl and mix well.
Just before you are ready to serve, add the cut broccoli, onion and raisins into a bowl and stir in the dressing. Then top with the cheese and bacon.
What is your favorite cold salad, broccoli, pasta, etc? If you have posted your favorite salad recipe, please comment and share a link back to your recipe!
Quilted Flamed Maple Cheese Boards
We had non stop rain all night, this morning no rain but very foggy on the mountain. I decided to take a quick two mile hike before breakfast to check out the creek. The area in the picture is loaded with moss and is like a sponge when it rains. All of the moss is very green from all the rain last night! Before I got home it was raining again and I got soaked, 🙂 it’s been raining all day.
After the hike we decided to drive to Landrum South Carolina, then on to Tryon North Carolina to browse the art, pottery and antique shops. We found a bunch of antiques today.
I have a New round cheese board – serving board I have added to my site. These make great gifts! Click this link, Round Cheese Boards to see more pictures of this board.
It was dark and late, I was sitting on our deck having a glass of wine and could hear the usual crickets, frogs, coyotes howling in the distance, etc. and lots of acorns hitting the ground. It was continuous nearly without stopping. We have a lot of acorn trees and they are full of acorns this year, so I thought I would take a picture and post this morning.
Our temperatures continue to be cool and refreshing, 59 degrees F this morning.
How about it your area, are the acorns falling too?
We had another beautiful sunset yesterday! I think fall is going to be earlier for us this year, we are already having cooler day and night temperatures. Last night we had a low temperature of 65 degrees F.
The leaves have started falling, acorns, hickory nuts and walnut are falling too. It won’t be long before we have the beautiful fall leaf colors!
Has fall started in your area?
Almond Bear Claw and Pecan Roll pastry, not my usual for breakfast but they are wicked good! Both the almond bear claw and pecan roll are absolutely melt-in-your-mouth delicious!
Have a great Monday!
I am sorry to show you this pie but on the other hand I know you will like it! This is another favorite pie that I make that everyone loves! It is full of butterscotch and chocolate chips plus pecans too and it great with vanilla ice cream drizzled with chocolate, butterscotch and or caramel sauce!
Butterscotch and chocolate are great together, I love them both, especially together! This is the easiest pie to make, so I hope you will make one, I know you will love it!
Ingredients:
1 – 9 inch pie crust
1/2 cup butter softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup light brown sugar
½ cup al purpose flour
¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
¾ cup butterscotch chips
1 cup pecans chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and prepare a 9 inch pie crust.
In a large bowl, cream the butter, add eggs, vanilla and both types of sugar then mix together. Add the flour and mix until blended.
Stir in both chips and chopped pecans and pour into your prepared pie crust.
Place in the oven and bake for 25 minutes depending on your oven until the center is set. The top should be light brown and a toothpick inserted comes out fairly clean.
Remove from oven and allow to cool about 30 minutes before serving. Serve with your favorite vanilla ice cream and drizzle with chocolate, butterscotch and or caramel sauce!! 🙂 I made this pie this morning and there are only 3 small slices left!
Do you like butterscotch and chocolate together?
Be sure to check out my Recipe page!
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I have started making one of a kind cutting boards and serving boards! Each board is numbered and is designed to be unique so that it can be displayed in your home but also makes a great accessory for cooking, cutting and serving.
Like all the boards, I hand select each piece of walnut, maple or cherry. Did I mentioned all my boards are handcrafted one at a time by me and only me and they all have beautiful grain, shiny finish, and smooth to the touch.
My supplier for walnut told me today that the price of walnut is going up very soon, it appears that there is a shortage of walnut. Only hope that the price doesn’t go up too much!
The above board is Curly Flamed Maple, as you can see it has beautiful color and character! My wife really loves the Curly Flamed Maple, if I don’t get a buyer for this board she said that she will be keeping it.
What do you think of my new boards?
Michael's Woodcrafts 