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allanaI feel quite virtuous. I've started updating my food blog again, and I've even managed to cook some healthy stuff. I was shocked to see how many comments I got when I started posting again... I guess folks missed me, which makes me feel warm and fuzzy :D Currently I'm making some dulce du leche (for the second time today--don't ask) in preparation for making a Flan.
I've turned my kitchen into a bit of a microbiology experiment this week, though. I'm having another bash at making a sourdough starter. I've always wanted to bake using wild yeasts and I'm wildly envious of everyone who's managed to get a starter going (and the people who've managed to keep them going for decades). I'm supposed to be hosting a community cooking day in May, and I was hoping to make something with sourdough then. (I was planning a literary theme, and proposing that people cook something from their favourite works of fiction. So, gruel a la Oliver Twist or Johnny Cakes from Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, etc etc.) We shall see. Currently I have a paste of organic brown flour and Evian, sitting in a jar. And a big reminder to check it at midday tomorrow :P
Hmm, what else is going on? Dave's birthday is this weekend and amazingly, I managed to get all of Dave's birthday presents bought in one go yesterday, so I can hole up for the rest of the week and try and wrap things prettily. Dave is much better at wrapping presents than I am, but it seems a bit cheeky to get him to wrap his own pressies!!
Other than that, little is going on. Like everyone else, I'm in the throes of some serious Jerry-love this week. I've been dividing my time between catching up on DVDs, blogging, and staring at hundreds of luscious photos :)
I've turned my kitchen into a bit of a microbiology experiment this week, though. I'm having another bash at making a sourdough starter. I've always wanted to bake using wild yeasts and I'm wildly envious of everyone who's managed to get a starter going (and the people who've managed to keep them going for decades). I'm supposed to be hosting a community cooking day in May, and I was hoping to make something with sourdough then. (I was planning a literary theme, and proposing that people cook something from their favourite works of fiction. So, gruel a la Oliver Twist or Johnny Cakes from Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, etc etc.) We shall see. Currently I have a paste of organic brown flour and Evian, sitting in a jar. And a big reminder to check it at midday tomorrow :P
Hmm, what else is going on? Dave's birthday is this weekend and amazingly, I managed to get all of Dave's birthday presents bought in one go yesterday, so I can hole up for the rest of the week and try and wrap things prettily. Dave is much better at wrapping presents than I am, but it seems a bit cheeky to get him to wrap his own pressies!!
Other than that, little is going on. Like everyone else, I'm in the throes of some serious Jerry-love this week. I've been dividing my time between catching up on DVDs, blogging, and staring at hundreds of luscious photos :)
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Date: 2005-03-10 05:35 pm (UTC)Gosh this is fun. I need to make friends in the area and do things like this.
Why are there no other rock band slashers in the Asheville area WHY?
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Date: 2005-03-10 05:46 pm (UTC)Other options on my list included Stephanie Plum's Mother's Upside-Down Pineapple Cake (just the thing to cheer you up after your car's been blown up); any of the monthly recipes from Like Water For Chocolate; maybe a pizza or lasagne a la Kay Scarpetta from the Patricia Cornwell books; or what about home-made ginger beer? I always wanted a picnic with "lashings of gingerbeer" when I was a kid; I probably spent far too much time reading Enid Blyton.
Ooooh, I just remembered! There are more recipes at the back of Fried Green Tomatoes, not just the tomato one! I seem to rememeber a biscuits and gravy one, as well as coconut pie.
And you don't need friends in the area... this is all done purely online. The best thing about that, is that you don't need to tidy the house. The only down-side is that you get to see all these tempting things, but you can't taste them.
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Date: 2005-03-10 06:08 pm (UTC)I just read over some fried green tomato recipes...which lead to fried dill pickle recipes...
...and now I'm craving fried dill pickles with horseradish dip. I think I actually have all the ingredients for that on hand.
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Date: 2005-03-10 06:12 pm (UTC)PS. Start a food blog ;)