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A quick meal tonight -- fish fillets and french fries, all from the freezer and just needing an air-fry. All I had to do was make a salad!
Today I made eclairs for the first time in many years -- all of it from scratch! It took more time than I had planned, but they are delicious!
I made shepherd's pie for our dinner.
I spent most of yesterday shopping in the nearest large shopping area near me, about 2 hours from here. I know this is not a good time to be out and about, but sometimes you just need more than groceries and meds. I was pleasantly surprised. The shops were not busy, not at all crowded until mid-afternoon at that last stop, a small specialty food shop. However, I would estimate masking was 100%. Wonderful. We felt perfectly safe running our errands.
Tonight we had chicken thighs, roasted veggies, and whole kernal corn.
Yesterday I made BakerAunt's version of Maple Buttermilk bread. It was perfect! I didn't need to add flour or water, it rose beautifully, got lots of oven spring, and is soft and moist. We had it for egg salad sandwiches for dinner. Today I decided to make it again, shaping it into 2 smaller loaves to gift, and 6 hot dog/sub buns. Today was a different story! Ur was a wet, sloppy mass. I had to add at least 1/2 cup of bread flour. I had already reviewed the ingredient list after I mixed it, and I'm very sure I didn't mismeasure either the flour or liquids. I usually make a wetter than normal dough, so I wasn't really concerned that the result would not be good bread. And it is good!! I have 2 gorgeous loaves plus the funny looking buns. The flour came out of the same container as yesterday, the weather is the same .... Thanks for your recipe, BakerAunt! It's a winner!
This morning I made the KABC recipe Perfectly Pillowy Cinnamon Rolls, their Recipe for 2021. I was disappointed. First, because it made only 8 (although I cut 9 slices to fit perfectly into a 9 x 9 pan) rolls. In this house, they won't last 2-3 days so I can test the claim about maintaining their softness. Secondly, the texture of the dough wasn't outstanding, not what I expected. I felt like perhaps they should have risen longer, or baked longer. I may try the recipe again sometime, but maybe I'll just stick with the one I've been using.
Dinner was spaghetti with a green salad and garlic knots from the freezer.
Today I made bagels.
Dinner tonight is beans and hot dogs! A traditional Saturday night dinner in New England, but we're having it on Sunday.
Tonight I cooked a chicken breast for myself and a pork chop for my husband. With it we had a roasted mix of the last buttercup squash, a sweet potato, and a white potato, with candied carrots from the freezer that were leftover from Christmas dinner.
Tonight I made beef stroganoff, with asparagus and a green salad.
Leftover lasagna with salad.
Leftover ham and split pea soup, with dinner rolls from the freezer.
I just put a raspberry-cinnamon swirl coffeecake into the oven. For Christmas, I gave my husband a canning jar full (52+) slips of paper, each labeled with a baked "sweet treat". He is to pick one slip each week all year, so he picked the first time last night (we had to eat up all the holiday sweets plus his birthday cake first). What do you suppose he drew? Maple Walnut ice cream! At that time, the outdoor temperature was -5, and this morning it was -9. We agreed - put the slip back and draw another for this week. Thus, the coffee cake. Much more appropriate this time of year.
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