Mike, please tell Diane I hope she is feeling better soon. I'm glad she has a good chef to feed her!
Today I cooked a ham bone and made split pea soup. We have quite a few more meals to stash in the freezer now.
We had cheesesteak on English muffins.
I made English muffins today. I used a new (to me) recipe from the Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook by Beth Hensperger and they came out great. I'll be using this recipe from now on, although I will try subbing in one cup of whole wheat in place of one of AP.
I made two loaves of pumpernickel. I used the dill pickle brine (no cucumbers) that I made with fresh dill 2 weeks ago. It worked fine, so I will make more to have a supply in the fridge.
A number of states in the Northeast no longer allow stores to use plastic bags (yes, you can get small thin bags for produce, leaky meat). They must charge you for paper bags. It took a while to train everyone (yup, how many times did I walk out of the house, leaving my reusable bags by the door? I now store them in the trunk of my car.) to bring their own bags. We reused the plastic bags for a lot of things -- I miss them.
Today I made Blueberry Sour Cream scones with a KABC mix I was gifted at Christmas. Disappointing. Too dry to come together, so I added 3 tablespoons of milk. Flavor is fine. But the dried blueberries are hard as rocks; I'm afraid of breaking a tooth or two. I baked them for 15 minutes, as suggested, and the scones are not overbaked.
Have never done take-out. But grill a lot. Leftovers tonight.
I made burger buns today, subbing 1.5 cups of whole wheat flour and adding generous shakes of garlic and onion powder.
No cooking tonight -- dinner was fried seafood at a local restaurant.
Thanks, everyone. I find that brushing a tablespoon or two of heavy cream on the crust makes it look extra special. This is an old recipe from my husband's family, the kind that says "bake in a moderate oven" and no specific details.
I made chicken thighs, wild rice, and cauliflower for dinner tonight.
Dinner tonight was ham and cheese sandwiches on rye, with potato chips.
Today I made my husband's birthday cake - it's a two-crust cream pie.
We had pasta with a sausage, onions, and peppers marinara (from the freezer, so just needed to cook the cavitappi) and a green salad.
I've made seafood salad, cauliflower salad, and a green salad for our dinner. It feels almost like spring here, 41* with temps in the 40s predicted for the next week or more. The 20 inches of snow we got 2 weeks ago is almost gone.
