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On Monday, I baked King Arthur Flour’s Favorite Fudge Birthday Cake. The layers are cooling. I’ll make the ganache and assemble the cake later this evening, so that it is ready for my husband’s birthday tomorrow. He looks forward to the cake all year, which is the only time I will allow us to revel in its saturated fat deliciousness, particularly when we don’t have other people with whom to share it. My only change is to use half and half rather than whipping cream in the ganache, as that worked well last year. The cake baked beautifully in my new oven.
One of my friends has a daughter who is a Physician Assistant. Her clinic has no Level 4 masks left for staff--which they need even if there weren't a crisis. I wish someone were in charge of making sure the health care providers get the equipment they need to protect themselves--and keep it away from those for whom it is not doing a bit of good.
I guessed scary and got the correct answer.
Aaron makes a good point about the opportunity for families to rediscover togetherness, and perhaps in an uncertain time to stop to appreciate rather than taking each other for granted.
Two of my stepchildren were out of the country when the situation was revealed as dire. Each will return this week, one at the scheduled time (and NOT from a country on the travel ban), and the other early from a country that is. When their mother picks them up, armed with wipes and homemade hand sanitizer, we will be much calmer here.
What is daunting for everyone in the country right now is that we don't know how long the emergency will last. We wonder if we have enough or if we are doing enough. Paradoxically, we must "socially distance" ourselves while also depending on each other.
To go with soup on Sunday night and the next night, I’m baking cornbread muffins. I’m using my Nordic Ware snowflake muffin pans, which I had not gotten around to using this winter. We did have a wet snow yesterday, but it melted earlier today.
For Sunday and Monday dinners, I have a large pot of soup simmering on the stove. I used the Bob’s Red Mill Vegi-Soup blend (lentils, split peas, and alphabet that dissolves), along with a large container of turkey broth from the freezer, and carrots, celery, and a red bell pepper sautéed in olive oil, then added ground turkey to brown before I added minced garlic and sliced mushrooms. I added the broth and the rinsed bean mix, then put in 1 Tbs. coarse salt, 1 Tbs. Penzey’s Bouquet Garni, 1 tsp. fennel (trying to get a sausage flavor going), 1 Tbs. tomato paste, and minced parsley. I’ll add some ground pepper at the end. I plan to freeze some of the soup for quick dinners, which is why I made such a large amount.
I was at the King Arthur website, as I needed to use a bonus bucks that was going to expire. They are temporarily out of a lot of flours as well. I was able to find steel-cut oats and thick-cut oats there, and use my coupon, so that was good for me.
I wonder if the issue is supply chain or people stocking up? Maybe there are more home bakers than we thought?
I checked the Bob's Red Mill site: They are sold out of almost everything, except for 25 pound bags in some items--and those do not qualify for the free shipping at $59 or more. I probably have steel-cut oats for another month, then if I cannot find them locally, I'll be eating up my supply of oat bran, which will not be bad, just different. Maybe I need to start alternating it in a few times a week now.
I missed it, which shows just how often I've had a Caesar salad.
One of my sister-in-laws once ordered a Caesar salad without dressing. The waiter was thoroughly perplexed.
Some years back, I discovered that Walgreens and CVS have periodic good deals on toilet paper, so I stock up when there is a sale. The same goes for paper towels. My husband always rolled his eyes at me. He's not rolling his eyes now.
Len--Your sister should be careful about flushing paper towels. A lot of plumbing systems cannot handle them.
One of my friends went to our local CVS to try to get hand sanitizer. She was told to come back later that day, after their truck arrives. She did so, but it turns out that the truck had only two containers of wipes and no hand sanitizer. We may be looking at breakdowns in supply and delivery now.
I don't expect the emergency to end before May.
We had warm apple pie for dessert tonight, so of course, it was not the prettiest presentation on our plates, but oh, it tastes delicious.
As my homage to Pi Day, I'm baking an apple pie with streusel top--Bernard Clayton's recipe, but I use my oil crust and blind bake it, par-cook the filling on the stove top, then use half the streusel. I'm using one Jonathan and six York apples, which have been stored in a cool garage this winter.
I recommend this set for part of the order:
https://shop.kingarthurflour.com/items/mini-spatula-set-red
The "spoonula" is the best way I've found for dribbling glaze on sweet rolls or Bundt cakes. Of course, if you have a similar implement already, use it instead. 🙂
I also knew this one.
On Friday afternoon, I baked my Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers from dough that I made last week.
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