Looks like spaghetti squash may count as a vegetable on my wife's diet plan (GOLO), so I may have to see if there are any at the farmer's market on Sunday, when the temperature will only be in the mid 80's, so having the oven on for 45 minutes won't be as big a problem.
Well, this was my 3rd rye starter, plus the two wheat-based ones I made some years ago when I was testing Peter's book, so I'm getting good experience at creating starters, I guess. 🙂
There are recipes online claiming to be knockoffs of the Portillo's mayonnaise chocolate cake, but I've not tried any of them. The Portillo's cake is pretty doggoned good!
My rye starter was one of the casualties of the refrigerator failure, I'm not in a big hurry to start another, though.
Between my wife's shoulder, our dying/dead SubZeros and the heat, we're doing a lot of take-out right now.
Lancaster County Nebraska is back to requiring masks for most indoor activities as of Thursday.
The SubZero refrigerator is no longer cooling at all and has been emptied. (It was holding in the lower to mid 40's for a while.) The freezer seems to be holding at about 14 degrees, I'm working on emptying it as well.
Still trying to get a time scheduled for removing the SubZeros, and then it could be weeks or months before we can get the Frigidaire replacements, assuming they fit the space for height and depth, which the specs say they should.
They should be about 6 inches narrower, so we'll need to fill in a gap on the sides somehow.
It's like the game we used to play as kids: Red light! Green light!!
With squash, eggplant and tomatoes, ratatouille would be my choice.
Don't know if it was the official high, but I saw 100 on accuweather around 5PM today here.
I've got a bunch of things in the SubZero freezer I need to either use, throw, or find space for somewhere else, and most of the 'somewhere elses' are getting pretty full. I should know tomorrow when they'll be out to pull out the SubZeros, but I don't know yet when we'll be able to get replacements, the pair we're looking at is apparently in fairly short supply.
We have never owned a deep fryer and pan frying is incredibly messy, so the only time we have fried chicken is when we buy takeout. We prefer Popeyes over the other national brands and Lincoln's 'home town' brand, Lee's.
We had takeout fried chicken tonight.
I read about a town west of Nashville that had 17 inches of rain on Saturday, believed to be a state record. Flooding has claimed multiple lives.
We had a stir fry tonight.
I doubt there's enough alcohol in hard cider to kill off the yeast, though it seems likely it would slow it down some. Yeast activity can generate alcohol, too.
Lil Vienna sent out a recipe for a stone fruit sheet cake, traditionally done with apricots in Austria.
I'm thinking of making it using small peaches, which are on sale this week.
