Chewy Coconut Cookies (New favorite recipe)

 

i recently got this giant bag of shredded coconut to review. It's a little different than the bagged sweetened coconut i usually buy, and figured out it makes amazing cookies!!  

This coconut is raw, organic and unsweetened.  It's a little different than the sweetened bagged coconut i usually buy from the grocery store. It's a finer shred and slightly dry. While trying to figure out what to make with it, i decided to try baking it into cookies. They are currently our favorite cookie!! 

The recipe makes 3 dozen, and i usually do one dozen plain, one dozen chocolate chip and one dozen chocolate chip with mini M&Ms.  They are always a big hit!  The recipe is very easy and they come out perfect every time. 

Ingredients

1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour 

½ teaspoon baking soda 

¼ teaspoon salt

 ½ cup butter (room temperature)

½ cup packed brown sugar

 ½ cup white sugar 

1 egg 

½ teaspoon vanilla extract 

1 ⅓ cups flaked coconut 

*optional chocolate chips, mini-M&Ms, 

Directions

 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 

First, combine flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl; set aside.  Next, beat butter, brown sugar, and white sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.  Add egg and vanilla; beat until light and fluffy. Gradually blend in flour mixture, then stir in coconut until well combined. Add chocolate chips and/or m&ms if using.  Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets, about 3 inches apart. 

Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.  Allow cookies to cool briefly on the baking sheet before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Additional adds-in that we've tried include dried cranberries and walnuts. They cookies are chewy and delicious.  Enjoy! 

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IndestrucTable® ECO™ Table by Iceberg Enterprises Product Review

 

It's been a minute since i've done a public product review, but i recently got the chance to try out this IndestrucTable® ECO™ Table and wanted to share my experience! Over the summer i used one of our regular vending tables outside to pot some plants, and a surprise rain storm pretty much destroyed it. So i was looking for a new table that was multi-purpose. i wanted something that would work for vending and could also be used outside when we're camping or to start trays of seeds etc. 

One thing i really like about this one is that it's really easy to set up and it folds up for easy storage. It has a carry handle for easy transport. It's also really heavy-duty and is advertised as being environmentally friendly. The tabletop is made from 90% post consumer resin. It also has heavy gauge 1” bamboo green powder coated round tube legs for stability. It's described as being lightweight, but i found it to be pretty heavy (for me). i had to have Kenan do the unboxing because i couldn't lift it out of the box. i have a smaller folding table that is significantly lighter, but it's also not as solid or heavy duty as this one feels. 

The table top is dent resistant and really easy to clean. It is slightly textured, not a perfectly smooth surface. i added the iGear™ Stretch Cover and did a quick set up of our vending table and really think it's great! Over all, i'm pretty impressed with it. It's a little heavier than i was hoping, but it really does feel solid. Iceberg Enterprises is family-owned business committed to manufacturing in the United States. You can read more about them on their website. https://icebergenterprises.com.

i received this product at no cost in exchange for an honest review, my opinions are my own. 

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Eggs and Honey for Sale

Local folks. i'm in Floyd a few times a week and have extra eggs and honey available. Eggs are $5 per dozen. You can pick them up at our house or i can meet you in town. Connect with me on messenger to arrange pick up.

We have a limited amount of fall '22 honey available for purchase. If you are local you can pick up here, or i can meet in Floyd. For those that are not local we do ship.

Our honey is available in 1lbs glass bottles, 1lbs and 2 lbs plastic squeeze bottles and 8oz sampler jars.  My 8oz giftable sample jars are available as liquid honey w/mini honey dipper or crystalized honey with bamboo mini spoon.  They have a decorative fabric top and are perfect for gifting. 

You can contact me at m.me/enchantedtree  on messenger or email me at enchantedtree@hotmail.com

 

Glass Pendant Giveaway!

 Glass Pendant Giveaway! 

It's been a long time since i've hosted a giveaway!   Winner will receive their choice of a random mushroom pendant or a goddess pendant. 

 Everyone can get the free entry to enter. You can do the optional other entries to increase your chances!

 US only. 

Good luck!

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*Temu is a shopping app like Amazon, by downloading the app you help me to earn free products and by sharing it with your friends you can win cash and freebies too. i've ordered from them a few times and received some awesome freebies playing the games. 

This year in Mushrooms

 This poor blog is so neglected, but i still like to try to post now and again to keep it active. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram then you've probably already seen all these photos, but i'm doing sort of a round up for the year. Mushroom hunting has gone from a little hobby to a full blown obsession. 

i'm not adding all my mushroom harvests from the year, but just a few of the more notable ones. This was 5-9-22. Normally i would be finding Morels in April/May but this year there were very few. The ones i did find were small and dry and the conditions just were not right for them this year. We did get several shiitake from out plugged logs.  They are several years old, so i'm always a bit surprised when they still flush.

We had another amazing year for Chicken of the Woods and chanterelles. This photo is from July.  Now that we've found a few logs that produce chicken of the woods on our property, we tend to check those spots every time we are out hiking. Same goes for cauliflower mushrooms and lion's mane. Anything that comes back year after year.  We have over a dozen logs now that we know produce chicken of the woods. We were able to pack the freezer full this year.

Another photo from July. We tend to find chanterelles and black trumpets from July until October depending on the conditions. i have a fabulous black Trumpet spot on my property under a grove of Beech trees. They are one of my favorites to find.  

This is our best Chicken of the Woods log. i stumbled upon it a few years ago and it has produced an amazing amount of chicken of the woods every year since. This year it flushed twice. Chicken of the woods is still my favorite mushroom. As long as you get it when it is prime it's absolutely delicious! 

We typically only mushroom hunt on our land, but decided to try some new areas on a hunt for Hen of the Woods (Grifola frondosa).  This is one of the few mushrooms we do not find often on our land. We found one small one several years ago, and check the spot every year but it never came back. This year i found one completely randomly while checking my Chicken of the Woods logs and it inspired us to go hunting off our property in some areas where i knew they often came up.

We ended up finding several at the beginning of September which is pretty early for them around here. We went back to the same place a few times and found at least one each time. Hens are great to cook and freeze for later. We were super thrilled to pack our freezer full. 

Every year i make sort of a mushroom bucket list.  i choose mushrooms i've never found before and try to find at least one before the end of the year.  Last year my bucket list mushroom was the Indigo Milk Caps. It was really exciting to find a whole patch of them on the land behind my house. This year i didn't even find one, but i did find Blewitts!  These are not rare or especially exciting, but i had never found one before and had it on my bucket list. The first one i found was at the same place i'd found the hens. After correctly identifying it i went looking in my own woods and found a few more.  These have to be one of the cutest mushrooms ever. They are edible, although i haven't tried them yet. 

This is a collection of some of the edible mushrooms that come up on my land. Chicken of the woods, chanterelles, cinnabars, black trumpets, honey fungus, Cauliflower mushroom, Hen of the woods, Lion's Mane, Purple gilled Laccaria, Green Russula and Shrimp of the woods.  i'm always amazed at the variety that pops up right in my backyard.  i've been wanting to get a picture for a while of all the different mushrooms, but can never find them all at the same time to get a group picture. This is the best i've gotten so far, although i'm still missing Oysters, hedgehogs, Indigos, pheasant backs, blewitts and of course morels (early spring).   i've only ever found hedgehogs here once and that was several years ago. i also found a Bear's Head Tooth here once.

i'm already looking forward to see what types of mushrooms we find next year! i've already found so many mushrooms that were on my bucket list i'm going to have to create a new one!