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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 04:51 pm (UTC)(I'm seriously kidding. But I think the literary theme is a wonderful idea, and I hope everyone thinks of something more appetizing to make than gruel. I would make biscuits using the recipe you linked me to in honor of Augustus McCrae's biscuits in LONESOME DOVE. (And then I'd dump sausage gravy all over them because I'm really having a craving.))
Glad to hear you're food-blogging again. :D I love drooling at your blog.
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Date: 2005-03-10 05:46 pm (UTC)Hm, I love Flan. Funny enough I ate it for the first time--in Mexico, lol!
I usually bake my own bread, using dry yeast. My mother makes sourdough bread sometimes. It seems too much work, though. Good luck with the starter.
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