Yeah, I know the banner hints that I’m a quilter – and there’s that going on, but baby – let’s just say that I’m cooking! No no – I mean I’m really cooking. Like food. I’ve been doing a lot of it and if I do say so, it’s coming out pretty darn fine. Things I’ve made lately include:
- 4 doz. sticky buns. Yes that would be from scratch. With yeast, a lot of butter and brown sugar and raisins. oh yeah.
- Pizza. Ditto on the scratch and yeast. Cheese and pepperoni with other stuff thrown on for good measure
- Maquechoux – a strange sort of corn and veggie dish that is good enough to eat all by itself
- Some chicken stew with tomatoes
- Country Captain, which is a curried chicken dish*
- popcorn
- Good tomato sauce. A lot of it. Some frozen, some given to Mom and Dad and the rest being enjoyed over good pasta with coarse parmasaen. And for the pizza of course! One night I sauted a lot of mushrooms and added that to the sauce.
- An omelette served for late night dinner with toast, no butter but with fine strawberry preserves.
As a contribution to this flurry of activity, I finally found some containers worthy of holding flour. Direct from the King Arthur Flour Company in neighboring Vermont, and arriving in under 4 days via the mail – one container actually has about 13 lbs of flour in it. Some others will easily hold five pounds of flour or sugar. So tonight I moved my flour to its new home. And I moved my silly plastic measuring cup and my little orange scoop and my goofy two-ended, two-sided, four-measurement measuring spoon along with it. Those things live in with the flour so I can scoop or measure what I want and not dip wet things into the flour.
Their web site tells you how much weight you can add to your shipment and not increase postage so as a special bonus I got one of these — let’s just say as a reward for using all the yeast I’ve been using lately!
