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With just two of us, we run it every 2 or 3 days - we wash the pots and pans and prep dishes by hand. You know I've been cooking up a storm when I pull out the dish rack instead of letting them dry on a towel.
October 25, 2016 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Did You Cook Anything Interesting the Week of October 16, 2016? #5260I did find a recipe for sheet pan fajitas which was very quick and very successful. My only problem was that the recipe saris it was for a crowd - I halved it usingn1 pound of chicken and Will and I polished it off. I don't know any crowd that would be fed with 2 pounds of chicken ?
One of my favorite captions from the hurricane in Florida was of a man "pulling a wagon down a road full of sand." That writer certainly needed to know how to diagram a sentence!
Aaron, another interesting site I have been following (although I haven't been making much pizza lately) is the Baking Steel site http://www.bakingsteel.com/pizza-blog/
They have posts from Peter Reinhart and Kenji Lopez-Alt as well as a variation on the no-knead I want to try. Obviously, the purpose is to sell baking steels, but it's still very interesting.
Lots of trees down. Minimal water damage because the storm went further off shore. The thing that kept us away for so long was that the wastewater treatment pumps lost power so we had to wait til that was clear. Good news no contaminants in the water. The crews have done an amazing job cleaning up. We're all thankful we didn't get the floods around St. Augustine or NC
Some of us were at work today cleaning up. The generators that power the coolers didn't go on - yesterday the back of house (kitchen for the uninitiated) staff went in to clean everything out. I understand it was nasty. Today they brought some us in from front of house to clean everything in the kitchen and do some reorganizing. Tomorrow a few will be going in to get the restaurant ready for service tomorrow night. And, we'll be back at work Friday morning.
Made mac and cheese (baked) for dinner last night. No baking quite yet, but probably be n the next couple of days. No eggs at the market yet
We got home today!!!?
We're heading back tomorrow morning hoping to avoid some of the traffic. Tonight we'll know when they let phase 2 in, we are phase 3 - residents which should quickly follow. Current issue is getting the waste water treatment system up and going and there is a boil water alert. Our intention is to get back on the island, but we do have a friend we can stay with tomorrow night if we can't.
I just feel so badly for the people in the Carolinas - they got hit so badly and it was never expected to go that way. There were 2 couples from Hilton Head in our hotel and they said Harbor Town was pretty much decimated. The 18th green (for those of you golfers who watch the Heritage) was completely covered with debris. This morning they got news of surging water where it had been dry after the storm had passed.
People have been allowed on the mainland but we're getting mixed messages about the islands. Another resort said they were told the earliest would be Weds, but everyone's hoping tomorrow. For those left on the island, reports are that the water never got that high, but there's no power and they're not even letting a few people on. Hopefully, we will be able to get there
We got lucky. By the time the eye was east of Brunswick (we're the barrier islands east of Brunswick), it had wobbled east and passed about 100 miles from us. This was great for us, but unfortunately went straight into the SC coast between Hilton Head and Charleston. For Mike's friends (I hope they are safe), the storm did not turn east as quickly and is going to be at least a tropical storm. It did get downgraded to a category 2 before it passed us.
We should be able to go home tomorrow. They're waiting for the PM high tide because we could still get storm surge. After that it's clean up and hopefully back to normal soon.
I don't know if it's going to do as much damage on the Outer Banks as in past hurricanes. I think they may "only" have tropical storm strength - it's supposed to be down to a Category 1 by the time it gets to Charleston and starts heading out to sea. I hope that's the case for your friends
October 5, 2016 at 10:44 am in reply to: Coming Soon: A report on my week at Chocolate Boot Camp #5005Sounds like fun, Mike. Look forward to your reports as wellz
That explains it BakerAunt. During the early 79s I was in college and wouldn't have done much shopping. After that our family traditions were such that it would have been either canned (I still prefer it) or homemade so I would not have been paying attention to other products.
Italiancook, I'm originally from Southeastern Massachusetts, the home of Ocean Spray. I don't remember them ever making an orange cranberry relish in a jar. Those who made it used the recipe on the package.
What I was thinking was that the more you beat the butter and stuff, the warmer it can get and that could change the texture of the cake. I remember watching Emeril way back when and he said it didn't matter how you added the eggs, as long as they got incorporated. I don't think I would go that far, but I thought 2 at a time would be comparable to 1 at a time in the regular recipe.
I made a banana cream pie from a recipe I found on Epicurious. It had a graham cracker crust. The flavors were all great, but it ended up being a banana pudding pie: the filling was so soft.
I also made the Honey Vanilla Pound Cake again, doubling the recipe and baking it in the bundt pan. I made a few changes and wrote about them here
It was better than the last time, but is still a work in progress.
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