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Well, I have decided to try making bread again. I have never been very successful. I love sourdough bread, and it is so hard to find around here. I have the time now, so I am going to try it.
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I used to make bread nearly every day. I never bought any baked goods. I made bread for sandwiches and toast, banana bread for breakfast, rolls to eat with soup or stew, buns for hamburgers and hot dogs. Of course, I ground my own wheat for all of the above. I also made cookies, brownies, cakes and sweet rolls regularly as well.
Now, my girls are lucky if I make rolls every other month or so. Partly because I don't have the time, and partly because we can't eat a whole batch of anything any more (there's only 3 of us now).
At one point, my children were so spoiled, they wouldn't eat room temperature rolls, and they still won't eat rolls that were baked the day before. I always try to send any leftovers home with guests.
I'd really like to make either cream cheese and crab enchiladas, or black bean and tofu enchiladas, but my girls won't eat those. So I'll either make a vegetable quiche or some spaghetti for dinner (which won't be for another 5-6 hours, but it's not a bad idea to be thinking about it now I suppose).
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You're always welcome in my home Rivka. This is especially true when it's my home and Annie's home (our home ).
Liz and Maui Babe, I love fresh bread! That sounds really great, it's a shame you don't get to do it much any more though MB. Ohh, and my recent discovery on quiches is that adding in lots of freshly grated parmesean is a huge bonus for taste and texture (as opposed to most other cheeses). Just my two cents on quiche.
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By the way, my puffs turned out beautifully. I had a couple and that constituted my dinner, the rest were thrown on the mercy of my roommates and they ate most of them.
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I made myself a burrito for dinner tonight. And ate it all.
But I didn't eat lunch today. Or breakfast. And my parents noticed. So I am on Strict Food Surveillence.
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I finished the flowers for the wedding cake I've been working on (for this Saturday). 300 bloody daisies, 600 forget-me-nots and 100 roses. Now I have to bake the cake and put on the fondant and place all those flowers on with royal icing Posts: 944 | Registered: Jun 2001
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Nothing terribly new here, but I made homemade tomato sauce again, and I have to reiterate how really, really good it is with beef stock in it.
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Last thing I baked was a pizza, but I was out of All-purpose flour so I ended up using bread flour. It made the crust super-duper soft even with the whole wheat flour and cornmeal I usually add to it. I made it exactly how I like it, with very little tomato sauce, lots of mozza, as many pepperoni as I can arrange on it, and parmesean on top after it had finished baking. MMmmmm...tasty. Posts: 4089 | Registered: Apr 2003
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We had spaghetti with mushrooms with a caesar salad and garlic bread. It was tasty, but not cream cheese and crab enchiladas.
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Last Wednesday I made dinner for my 7 member family. We had a couple of very nice Indian curries, Naan, rice, vegetables. And then for desert I made a non-Indian dish, marble cake (from scratch) topped with a creamy, fudge frosting.
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I made mixed a Carnation instant breakfast packet with milk. And then had a Lean Budget Gourmet for breakfast.
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Last night we had the missionaries over. I made rice, masoor dal, Imogen's Jeera Chicken from the Jatraquero recipe site, Hobbes' naan (the same-- except I topped with garlic before frying), and Navratan Korma. (We just had Girl Scout cookies and milk for dessert, though.)
For Easter dinner next week, I will be baking an Easter bunny cake. You know, a cake that looks like a bunny. I'll post pics if it turns out adorable. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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My latest culinary achievement was paying four dollars and forty-four cents for a salad with grilled chicken and mango. And then I had a piece of a grilled breakstick.
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I made Turkish Delight on Saturday. It's just good enough to be good, and just weird enough that the kids don't eat it all in one sitting.
I put it on the Jatraquero Recipe site, but I think I may adjust the quantity of rosewater. They turned out very strongly rosy.
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Dag: haven't made up any new dishes in a while, excepting the famous omlette I made Olivetta eat before she went nuts. (That seems to be my role fairly often in stressful situations; I made everyone eat Snickers on my sister's wedding day because no one had eaten anything and they were all grumpy.) Anyway, if I come up with something good, or find a new favorite recipe, you can be sure I'll post it. I use that site so much, I can barely remember life without it. It's great. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Turkish Delight also figured in Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. I used to get it at the local middle eastern grocery store as a child.
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I remember finding Turkish Delight as a kid, after reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. EW!!!(sorry, Annie)
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Today I baked the Banquet T.V. Dinner instead of microwaving it. I'm not inpressed with the difference in quality/time spent cooking ratio...
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Hobbes, Annie is really becoming a good influence on you! You guys should become our next-door neighbors when you get married and invite us over for dinner a lot. Posts: 1903 | Registered: Sep 2003
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So today I have to skip lunch do to the nature of my schedual. I'll get back home at about 5 but have to leave again at 6. This will be cutting it close for having a dinner of almost any kind, so I'm thinking, I'll start chicken marinating then in an Indian curry dish, and see if I can make it to 10:00 with no food (which would be about when I could eat it). I'm a little nervous since I have about 10 miles or so of biking in between meals, and about 12 hours. Hmmmm, but food is so good when prepared properly!
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How often does this kind of thing happen? 'Cause we have 2, we usually don't use the small one, and I'll send it to you as a loan until you go on your mission if you want. It's small enough to fit under a bed or something when not in use. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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My bed is on the floor. Seriously though, I really appreciate the offer but I only have a month and a half, I don't think it would really be worth it. But I do really appreciate it!
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Wow, you only have a month and a half? *looks at calendar* Time flies! And I know what to get you two for a wedding present! Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Ha ha! Yah well if Annie and I do write down a list of possible wedding presents (or register or whatever) we'll probably ask for predominatly cooking equipment, though Annie has a lot and I have a decent amount (I tried to get pretty good quality supplies of all the essentials).
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We registered at Target. It's great, you can find almost everything you need or want, you can register either online or by going around with a cool scanner they give you, people who live far can ship things directly to you through the website, and you don't feel guilty about asking people to spend a lot of money, because you can register for things in a good mix of price ranges and let people go in together on the expensive things you need, if they want to, or buy you several little things, or whatever. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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