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rebeccmeisterIt was a good move to feed the sourdough Saturday morning, so I could make the dough Saturday evening, then shape the loaf Sunday morning. This is instead of feeding the sourdough Saturday evening, resulting in a hurried Sunday bread-making process. This loaf will be more fluffy than the last one. I used up the rest of the potato flour in the previous loaf, so I stuck 1/4 C rice flour in this one and will be curious to see what that does to the loaf.
It was also time to finally dispatch the other bag of mini marshmallows, since I'd finally managed to pick up some puffed rice. My effort to make S'mores Bars started out auspiciously enough, with the toasting of the mini-marshmallows under the broiler.
So petite, so ready for toasting:
Broiler, do your thing!
Mmmmmm, Maillard reaction...
Marshmallow perfection:
...envision some sticky, awkward stirring here...
Final product.
Edible, but meh. Not worth the trouble, and the ratio of sticky stuff to crunchy stuff was wrong. Too much crunchy stuff, not enough sticky stuff!
So anyway. Hilariously, now I have most of a leftover bag of unsweetened puffed rice cereal to decide what to do with. I will probably just eat it.
What else was on the cooking agenda:
-Vegetarian chili; the rest of last year's green tomatoes went in. Not bad, the next day.
-More wild rice soup. It was a Souper weekend! Both batches of soup were so big that I stuck extra containers of soup in the freezer, for a future week when I can't or don't feel like cooking.
The soup was partly inspired by finding a quart of cream on sale at the grocery co-op yesterday. I also made and froze a batch of blueberry buckwheat scones with some of the cream. Getting ahead on cooking while I can, I guess. The rest of the cream got whipped up and will go on pancakes.
So yeah, pancakes, too, for those keeping track at home. And some cornbread, to go with the chili. And I decided to mix things up a bit for sandwich fillings, so instead of making more hummus I made up a batch of barbecue tofu pieces, which makes me think fondly of the days when I used to make BBQ tofu all the time in California. Tasty stuff.
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It was also a Sunday afternoon spent mentally kicking and screaming about the fact that tomorrow is a Monday and so another hectic week is almost upon me. I eventually managed to convince myself to finally get one assignment graded for my Animal Phys students, telling myself that my self of tomorrow will thank me.
It's sometimes hard to read things like someone's question on a social media site about other peoples' hobbies, when I pause and think, at the moment it seems my main hobby is running a rowing club, which sounds more like work and less like a hobby. The knitting needles sat idle this weekend, and the best I can say is I managed to get some stuff organized so I can now extract out the sewing machine table to maybe someday start working on retrofitting it for the newer sewing machine. Someday, maybe. There are a lot of half-started projects lying around here, just waiting for someday.
On that note, time for a shower.
It was also time to finally dispatch the other bag of mini marshmallows, since I'd finally managed to pick up some puffed rice. My effort to make S'mores Bars started out auspiciously enough, with the toasting of the mini-marshmallows under the broiler.
So petite, so ready for toasting:
Broiler, do your thing!
Mmmmmm, Maillard reaction...
Marshmallow perfection:
...envision some sticky, awkward stirring here...
Final product.
Edible, but meh. Not worth the trouble, and the ratio of sticky stuff to crunchy stuff was wrong. Too much crunchy stuff, not enough sticky stuff!
So anyway. Hilariously, now I have most of a leftover bag of unsweetened puffed rice cereal to decide what to do with. I will probably just eat it.
What else was on the cooking agenda:
-Vegetarian chili; the rest of last year's green tomatoes went in. Not bad, the next day.
-More wild rice soup. It was a Souper weekend! Both batches of soup were so big that I stuck extra containers of soup in the freezer, for a future week when I can't or don't feel like cooking.
The soup was partly inspired by finding a quart of cream on sale at the grocery co-op yesterday. I also made and froze a batch of blueberry buckwheat scones with some of the cream. Getting ahead on cooking while I can, I guess. The rest of the cream got whipped up and will go on pancakes.
So yeah, pancakes, too, for those keeping track at home. And some cornbread, to go with the chili. And I decided to mix things up a bit for sandwich fillings, so instead of making more hummus I made up a batch of barbecue tofu pieces, which makes me think fondly of the days when I used to make BBQ tofu all the time in California. Tasty stuff.
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It was also a Sunday afternoon spent mentally kicking and screaming about the fact that tomorrow is a Monday and so another hectic week is almost upon me. I eventually managed to convince myself to finally get one assignment graded for my Animal Phys students, telling myself that my self of tomorrow will thank me.
It's sometimes hard to read things like someone's question on a social media site about other peoples' hobbies, when I pause and think, at the moment it seems my main hobby is running a rowing club, which sounds more like work and less like a hobby. The knitting needles sat idle this weekend, and the best I can say is I managed to get some stuff organized so I can now extract out the sewing machine table to maybe someday start working on retrofitting it for the newer sewing machine. Someday, maybe. There are a lot of half-started projects lying around here, just waiting for someday.
On that note, time for a shower.
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Date: 2022-01-31 02:01 am (UTC)Which is super frustrating because the pandemic did grant me a little extra time (no work travel, less karate interaction, etc) that I could have used on hobbies but I didn't and now that opportunity is pretty much gone.
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Date: 2022-01-31 10:08 am (UTC)