I listen to Coast to Coast AM, or at least part of it almost nightly with Mike. This has led in the past to some hilarious conversations. Like about Eeyore, Patron Saint of Emo Kids everywhere and possibly the Lord of the Undead. He's usually asleep well before the final song. Which has changed to a fun little song by UFO Phil. I wanted the song very much, and finally searched for it today, and it's downloadable from his site. If you like Weird Al, and have a alien fascination like mine, the songs are very cute, and free. Anakin actually made Mike laugh out loud, and he said I could go ahead and put the UFO Phil songs on his ipod.
Since I found the song, I made this spacey printable box.
( clicky here )
I did get Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
and it's so good. One of my favorite cookbooks ever already. The chapter on bread is a must read for anyone who really loves making bread. Sure, the recipes and detail on how to create a wild yeast sourdough starter are great, but even better is the way Sandor Ellix Katz writes about bread. He appreciates it truly. Since we never get plain old icky regular sandwich bread unless we plan to do bread dough sculpture (you know, crustless nasty white bread mixed with glue), my family really appreciates good bread, and Mike *loves* sourdough. We've always used packaged yeast though, so the idea of growing out own yeast is really.. well.. probably a lot more exciting then it needs to be. But I won't apologize.
Other things that excite me are the really easy and understandable instructions for making vinegar using fruit scraps. Even if it turns out awful, I can make organic vinegar with bits and pieces I'd usually throw away, and use it on my hair if nothing else. If it turns out usable, the different sorts of vinegar I could make from scratch will have lots of uses in cooking and flavoring. I've also always had an interest in home brews and homemade wine, and there are a ton of instructions for that, plus a ginger ale recipe, again, using homemade starter instead of yeast, that E wants to try.
How did our cream soda turn out a couple weeks ago? E, Mike and I all like it, W disliked it, but I think in his case, since he's a really unpicky eater, it's certain types of sour/yeasty he doesn't like. He doesn't like kombucha either, and E likes it quite a bit. Well.. at least I doubt I'll have to worry about him drinking real beer!
We ordered pizza tonight for dinner. Mike says tomorrow will be quite busy, and he see no good reason for me to risk hurting myself tonight. Since you know.. stuffing.
Funny things, at work, Chef offered to roast everyone's turkey, and you'd figure, Chef=went to school to learn to cook, and would do something wonderful... Mike mentioned it, and I said "Sounds good, only drawback I see is not having drippings for gravy." and Mike said quickly "I was stating a fact. He offered. I was NOT asking you if you wanted Chef to make the turkey." Of course I jumped on that, and said consideringly "Well, I guess we could get jarred gravy." and he said "Don't mess with my turkey."
I mentioned to Gina that he's always thankful for the same thing, and she said "You." and I had to say.. "No, the fact I made stuffing." and I told Mike about that conversation. He said "Of course, I'm always happy and grateful you're in my life. But let's be realistic, I'm a fat man. Food is important." Well.. I'd rather someone who enjoyed life, enjoyed food, and didn't have steel willpower, or a masochistic desire to starve. And he really really loves my stuffing.
( stuffing recipe )
Since I found the song, I made this spacey printable box.
( clicky here )
I did get Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
Other things that excite me are the really easy and understandable instructions for making vinegar using fruit scraps. Even if it turns out awful, I can make organic vinegar with bits and pieces I'd usually throw away, and use it on my hair if nothing else. If it turns out usable, the different sorts of vinegar I could make from scratch will have lots of uses in cooking and flavoring. I've also always had an interest in home brews and homemade wine, and there are a ton of instructions for that, plus a ginger ale recipe, again, using homemade starter instead of yeast, that E wants to try.
How did our cream soda turn out a couple weeks ago? E, Mike and I all like it, W disliked it, but I think in his case, since he's a really unpicky eater, it's certain types of sour/yeasty he doesn't like. He doesn't like kombucha either, and E likes it quite a bit. Well.. at least I doubt I'll have to worry about him drinking real beer!
We ordered pizza tonight for dinner. Mike says tomorrow will be quite busy, and he see no good reason for me to risk hurting myself tonight. Since you know.. stuffing.
Funny things, at work, Chef offered to roast everyone's turkey, and you'd figure, Chef=went to school to learn to cook, and would do something wonderful... Mike mentioned it, and I said "Sounds good, only drawback I see is not having drippings for gravy." and Mike said quickly "I was stating a fact. He offered. I was NOT asking you if you wanted Chef to make the turkey." Of course I jumped on that, and said consideringly "Well, I guess we could get jarred gravy." and he said "Don't mess with my turkey."
I mentioned to Gina that he's always thankful for the same thing, and she said "You." and I had to say.. "No, the fact I made stuffing." and I told Mike about that conversation. He said "Of course, I'm always happy and grateful you're in my life. But let's be realistic, I'm a fat man. Food is important." Well.. I'd rather someone who enjoyed life, enjoyed food, and didn't have steel willpower, or a masochistic desire to starve. And he really really loves my stuffing.
( stuffing recipe )
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