Not quite, but today is cookie dough day at my house! I'll mix up several doughs for the freezer to be baked off next week. Some I will shape into a cylinder for slice and bake cookies, and others I'll use a cookie scoop. I focus on taste, not looks -- I am not the fancy decorator type! What kind of cookies do you make?
I made a rum cake, an annual tradition for one of my husband's organizations. The first cake didn't come out right, so I made a 2nd cake yesterday. This one looked beautiful, and then on his way out the door, my husband dropped it, in the old Tupperware cake carrier, on the floor in the mudroom. Naturally, the cover came off, and the floor was dirty (this is where the boots come off and jacket are hung up, etc). We sliced off the top half inch, since of course it landed upside down, and that removed all the dirt coating. He put it back in the cake carrier, and off he went. It was delicious, everyone loved it, and now we have the entire first cake plus 3 small pieces of the second one!
I made turkey soup, with a thick, creamy base, similar to the insides of a chicken pot pie. I sauteed celery and onion, and added Penzey's Sunny Paris, frozen mixed vegetables and Dutch noodles. With it we'll have onion-wild rice rolls. We'll have leftovers for a couple of meals, and I still have about 2 quarts of turkey stock left.
We had leftovers -- seafood casserole on rice.
I made 2 loaves of oatmeal buttermilk sandwich bread.
We had cheesesteak on a bun.
No thinking needed here! We're having leftover beef stroganoff and green salad.
I made a seafood casserole, served on rice, with a Greek salad.
We used to have a den of fox every spring in our field, but lately we've seen only a stray fox passing through. Back in those days, we had a young cocker spaniel and would often see her playing with 4-5 kits in the orchard. Sometimes she chased them, and sometimes they were chasing her. Once in a while, the vixen would join in - that bothered me!
It sounds like my area is doing really well in comparison. I find pretty much all employees and shoppers are wearing masks. A few nearby towns have mandated masks, but most stores just have signs politely requesting that masks be worn. I always wear a mask in public. I do not shop at the big box stores in a distant town. And I shop early in the morning when there are no crowds. But I rarely go anywhere. In the past month, I've been to 3 medical appointments, the pharmacy twice (once for the booster) and twice to the grocery store. I do shop at a chain grocery. We don't have many "needs", but if there is something, I order on-line. Our cases are way up, and my hospital (a large teaching hospital associated with a local college) has stopped doing elective surgery and does not allow visitors to in-patients or to accompany out-patient appointments.
I made cookies -- chocolate chunks and whole peanuts, with peanut butter in the dough. Very good.
I also bought KAF AP on sale, 2 for 5.00, unlimited purchases. What I really wanted was the whole wheat or bread flour for that price. BJs 12 pounds of AP for 7.59 now. Eventually, I'll buy another 50 lbs at the KAF store for whatever the wholesale price is for the day, $28-$30.
Today I made beef stroganoff with mushrooms and onions, and broccoli from the freezer. I used Greek yogurt instead of sour cream, and there was very little difference in taste.
We had leftover Shepherd's Pie.
We had shepherd's pie and from the freezer more onion and wild rice rolls.
For dinner we had leftover ham steak and vegetable lasagna that I pulled from the freezer. So nice to see slices of zuchinni, summer squash, carrots, mushrooms, onions, sweet peppers! And tasty.
