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I did a whole wheat cheese pizza with jarred pizza sauce. How much pizza sauce do you put on a pizza about 12 inches across. I kept an eye on it and I found that I used 2 - 3 tablespoons. Enough for a bit of flavor and salt, but not enough to be messy.
I messed this up.
The Granola looks great! I used to do granola, but I haven't for a long time. this tempts me to start again. I used to do mine in the crockpot.
I did Vietnamese Beef stew in the slow cooker on Wednesday. I got up early in the morning when it was still cool to get this prepared and in the slow cooker. I had wanted to cook it over the weekend but it was far too hot. I had to do quite a bit of substitution -- I had no fresh orange peel so I used candied orange peel and left out the sugar. I put in three small carrots and a turnip instead of two large carrots. One can of diced tomatoes instead of a fresh tomato. One small onion and some garlic instead of half a large onion. Then I cooked it on low for about 12 hours. came out very tasty. I could have put in another turnips. Stews are so wonderfully forgiving about substitutions and adding more ingredients.
I ate this with stir fried Chinese Cabbage and Rice. Its a very spicy dish but its suppose to be eaten with bland noodles and greens.On Tuesday it was very hot here, Washington DC area, I made orange-cranberry quick bread and cooked it in the slow cooker about 2 1/2 hours. It was about 195 degrees and thoroughly cooked when I took it out.
The texture and height were okay, a little moister than baking in the oven.
I also baked a cheese pizza at 10:00 at night -- it was still rather hot but I really wanted to eat the pizza. I had mozzarella and provolone on the pizza.Brownies only last for two hours at room temperature if the humans are safely locked up!
Most of my Rosemary survived the winter. I had three small plants indoors as insurance. I gave the youngest away and planted the others in the ground. They were fine living in a pot over the previous summer but weren't thriving over the winter, I think they were root bound.
The Chinese chives were doing great March-April but now many of them are dying. This looks root rot due to the rain and bad drainage. I had a similiar problem two years ago and hope that these will recover eventually. Also the chives are covered with small black insects.
The Amaryllis went outside about three weeks ago and are doing fine so far.Happy Birthday!
I called up a friend to whine about my ceiling. He had a comforting matter of fact attitude toward the hole -- things happen -- ceilings are often fragile -- you should have seen my hole. He also told me how to fix this and why my proposed method -- drywall clips -- wouldn't work well. However he also admitted that he personally hated drywall and working with it and fixing holes and had called in expert help to deal with his ceiling problem.
It was nice to hear from a friend who didn't think "BIG DISASTER" "Careless stupidity", but more "poor you, that is going to be messy. Its a irritating fix not a disaster. Common mishap"I like this! It has much less fat than the King Arthur Flour Breakfast cookies. I'll have to try this when I have time. Thanks for sharing.
I have been having attic repair problems. Tuesday I was crawling around on the attic when to get further under the rafters, I decided to crawl on the drywall ceiling instead of on the joists. This would get me lower to the ground and hence I could get further under the ceiling and toward the edge.
The ceiling promptly cracked under the weight of my knee and sent my spray bottle and some dry wall into the room below. I looked at the hole -- realized that the ceiling had shown evidence of previous water damage and cracks and determined that I should make the hole bigger and try to put a drywall patch in.
After 4 attempts. my ceiling is now partially patched and I have learned several methods of not patching a largish hole in the dry wall. a) don't expect to cut a drywall patch the exact size and expect it to stay in place while you plaster it in -- gravity is not your friend
b) don't expect fiberglass tape and patching compound to hold it in place -- gravity is not your friend and wet drywall compound won't hole anything in c) when trying to cut out a nice smooth hole near already weak and cracked dry wall don't expect the hole not to grow bigger d) your nice piece of plywood cut for your existing hole isn't long enough for the new hole
Anyway it was way too hot to bake for most of the week, but by Friday I was desperate.
I did a quick bread for the first time in a crockpot. It cooked on high for about 3 1/2 hours and was moist and tasty. This was my normal whole wheat scone thing with 1/2 cup blueberry jam for flavor and color and sweetener. I guess I can't call it a scone as it was much more cake light in texture and color but it was good.
Saturday I did whole wheat buttermilk bread with a cinnamon swirl in the crockpot. About 4 hours, 2 hours on low and 2 hours on high and cooked to 190 degrees. Much better than no bread and great with hot chocolate. It was a soft dough just a little better than a batter and I didn't knead it very much. Slightly too moist but great toasted and the cinnamon sugar gives a nice sweet surprise in the bread.Chocomouse;
Cute idea with the small mason jars! I like the idea that you don't actually bake in the jars which could crack. How was your last festival? Is your oven working better now?I like the idea of using English Muffin rings rather than Mason jar rings. I reuse my mason jar rings and many are rather dented and tarnished.
Missed this one too
I stir fry asparagus. Break it up into 2-3 inch pieces and stir fry with a little oil. Well with me its more of a braise. I add a little garlic or ginger for flavor. Heat oil until hot, add asparagus, stir around a bit and then add some water and cover the pan. Stir occasionally but mainly let it cook till its at the texture you want. The first frying in hot oil acts sort of the same way blanching does and improves the flavor and color in a way that boiling won't.
Oven thermometers are wonderful. I was told to get one after a cake domed up when I was trying to bake it. I found that oven ran 25 degrees too high. My current oven says its finished preheating when its about 50 degrees off -- it will eventually reach the proper temperature if you wait long enough.
I baked an apple slab pie last Tuesday with Winesaps and Gold Rush apples which had spent the winter in my refrigerator. The apple slab has more pie crust than a round pie and I was hankering for the crust.
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