I had a hot dog with some cheese and sauerkraut for supper, Diane had hot dogs in kraut (no bun).
We had macaroni and cheese tonight, my wife's stomach is still a bit touchy.
We had Little Caesars thin crust mushroom pizza the other day, I thought it was pretty good, and Diane did initially, too, but she had some problems overnight that were similar to her garlic allergy symptoms, so I'm wondering if there's garlic in the crust or sauce that we didn't notice at first. (We even went with 'light sauce'.)
The Little Caesars website doesn't list ingredients and garlic isn't generally listed among the allergens, I dropped them a note to ask if there's garlic hidden somewhere.
We had a beef stir fry with red bell pepper and mushrooms.
It's got an interesting taste, a bit of sour from the rye starter, but not excessively so for me, I had a sandwich on it for lunch and a piece toasted for a mid-afternoon snack, both were good. I suspect my wife might find it a bit too sour for her, though it might work for a Reuben, where the sauerkraut tends to be the dominant flavor. I added a little caraway seed, but can barely taste it.
Here's my semolina rye bread, I made it as a boule about 6 inches in diameter and 2 1/2 inches high. I'll slice into it tomorrow.
We had takeout pizza tonight.
I'm trying a variant on the semolina rye bread, I took about 1/5 of the total flour, added some water, and a tablespoon of my rye starter and I'm letting it sit, possibly overnight.
We decommissioned the Aerogarden last week, the lettuce on both sides had pretty much bolted. But we got about 4 1/2 months of lettuce from it.
We're still cleaning and sanitizing it for the next crop. We need to clean around it, as well, the dill that was in the herb kit went to seed, so we've got a big bag of dill seed for pickling and dill pollen all over the windowsill and floor. I never knew dill put out that much pollen!
We've got some tomato plants that came with the Aerogarden kit, we may try those next, they're bush cherry tomatoes and I didn't plant any of those outdoors. I'm thinking I may start around 6 tomatoes and put some spinach in the other slots on that side, spinach grows faster than tomatoes do, so by the time the tomatoes start blocking the light, the spinach may be pretty much done.
My son has been growing strawberries in one of his Aerogardens, we may try that as well. Might start a lettuce crop again after the farmers market season ends, right now we're kind of lettuced out.
Here's the tomato garden 3 1/2 days after planting. All 24 plants seem to be doing well.
By 'hand blender' did you mean a stick blender? I haven't tried using my Bamix for whipping cream, but I used to make it with an egg beater, though I was a lot younger and stronger then.
I wonder if a frother has enough power to whip cream?
My son bought one of those CO2 charged foamers, I don't know how much he uses it. They always seem like too much work to clean afterwards.
Last night I got two of the cinnamon/maple fan tan rolls out of the freezer and put them sit in the silicone cups I use for baking them and then left them on the counter overnight, covered. I baked them this morning.
Did they rise a bit more than the ones that hadn't sat out long enough for the yeast to resume activity? Yeah, but I'm not sure it made a big difference.
So, if I know I want cinnamon rolls in the morning, I might take them out of the freezer at bedtime, but if I don't, it doesn't seem to make much difference to take them out in the morning.
Increasing the amount of yeast, or using osmotolerant yeast, might help, too.
Yes, I made two batches of them several weeks ago (using two different methods of putting the cinnamon/sugar/maple syrup in between layers.) They don't rise as much as I'd like.
The ones I made yesterday went into the oven after just a few minutes out of the freezer, the ones I made today I got out of the freezer around midnight last night and put them in the fridge overnight. I still need to try some that have been allowed to defrost on the counter and sit for a few hours. The problem is, I want these for breakfast, and I don't want to have to get up two or three hours ahead of breakfast and go out to the freezer in the garage. I suppose I could try getting some out and letting them sit on the counter all night.
We had fish for supper (orange roughy for her, salmon for me) with broccoli and some fresh pineapple.
We had tuna salad sandwiches, a cool dinner on a warm but not really hot day (high 70's.)
