A former neighbor is the head of the Lincoln Sysco office; he told me that All-Trumps (high gluten flour) was what a lot of pizza and bagel places used here. He brought me a big bag of it, it wasn't very good for bread but it worked well for bagels, though I thought it was bit too strong for pizza dough.
We had some onion soup from the freezer, using some lavash instead of stale bread. Worked very well.
I have a very nice 8" fine mesh bouillon funnel/strainer and I use it frequently, I also have several coarser mesh canning strainers, so they store stacked inside each other for storage.
We had the last of the turkey pot pies for supper tonight.
I think we're having mushroom soup and tuna fish sandwiches for supper.
I'm roasting a couple of sweet potatoes for Diane, supper will be tomato soup with fried cheese on lavosh.
We had hot ham and cheese sandwiches.
We had turkey pot pies again.
We had pot pies again for supper. Simple, fast and tasty.
It keeps flirting with above-freezing temperatures and we had some bright sun today, but tomorrow night the expected low is 1.
This time I went with both a bottom and top crust, sometimes I just do the top crust. I used a hot water pie dough (Susan Purdy's recipe except using Crisco instead of margarine), sometimes I've made laminated dough and used that, makes for a really flaky top.
Either way, they're usually very good, light on the turkey, heavy on the potatoes, celery, carrots and peas and lots of gravy.
I'm making 8 4-inch turkey pot pies, just went into the oven. A bit messier than I had hoped but I think they'll taste fine.
Mini pies or hand pies always seem to have a higher crust-to-filling ratio. But I like pie crust, so it usually isn't an issue for me either. I'm thinking about doing some 4" turkey pot pies with leftovers vs a 9 or 10 inch pot pie.
We had hot ham and cheese sandwiches again, I also had a small bowl of soup, Diane had some potato salad.
We got a couple inches of snow over the weekend and another inch so far today. My brother (near Dubuque) says he got around 8 inches and 4 more expected.
The snow has chased some mice indoors, Jack proudly brought us a mousetrap with a mouse in it last night and another one this morning.
I've had at least 3 meyer lemon trees, each of them produced a dozen or so fruit at first but less in subsequent years, and at this point I've given up on trying to raise them. Probably not enough light and inadequate pollination indoors.
