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Mar. 10th, 2005 03:34 pmI 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 :)
