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We spent the week at my husband's cousins' reunion. We find a place to rent--preferably with a large kitchen--and everyone cooks. On Wednesday night, I made up two batches of cinnamon rolls to rise in the refrigerator overnight. I brought my bread machine with me, with all the dry ingredients and the filling ingredients measured into containers. Dinner was late, so I didn’t get to start until after 8:30 p.m. As I expected, it took me three hours to get the dough kneaded, shaped, and refrigerated. I baked each pan separately the next morning.
This place is a former restaurant and is now a B&B. We requested being allowed to do our own breakfast and received a discount. It has a small commercial-style kitchen, but it does not appear to have been kept in very good working order. I suspect that their breakfast (it is normally a B&B, but we like to do our own cooking and baking) is rather simple. Although there is a large gas Wolf range—double oven, six unsealed burners—the oven did not regulate temperatures too well. I had to set it 25F above, and even then, it seemed to want to go back to 325F. I benefited from the cousins who had done some baking before me and their recommendations. The sweet rolls came out very well, and one pan was consumed with breakfast, and the second one started. By the time we left on Friday morning, there was not a cinnamon roll remaining.
We are having leftover stir-fry from last night.
That is good, because at 10:30 or so Saturday evening, there was a resounding crash in the bedroom closet as the rack gave way, and the clothes came tumbling down. I had not wanted to do a Rubbermaid wire shelf; my husband now sees my point. The metal brackets are just not meant to hold that kind of weight. At the moment, we are using some freestanding clothes holders that I saved when we moved, and we are using the downstairs closet, where I insisted we put back the metal rod. The wooden shelf over it, with an additional supporting bracket in the center is working fine.
I have dinner handled. Any advice on closet systems? 🙂
