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Note to self

May 13, 2012

I made some dinner Sunday night. (For those of you who regularly cook that might not be such a big deal, but I haven’t cooked much in quite a while. Saturday night’s dinner was peanut butter sandwiches on stale bread – a real high point.) Anyway, I made some chicken-and-rice thing where the last step [...]

Sorry, Grandmother.

April 28, 2012

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I took a stab at making a non-artisan-bread-in-five-minutes dough today. We were going to have chili for dinner, and apparently in the midwest it is blasphemous to not have cinnamon rolls with chili, and I did not want to anger the chili gods. I’ve posted about my grandmother’s recipe before, and how it involved a [...]

Brown Sugar Shortbread

April 25, 2012

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We are having an inservice/Week of the Young Child event tomorrow evening at school and the staff is bringing snacks. I cut up some cheese and sausage, but felt bad that I wasn’t going to bake anything. I’m pretty sure there will be plenty of food, but I thought maybe I could make shortbread. Problem: [...]

Re’sume’ addition: Miller

April 2, 2012

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Remember that 100-grain hot cereal I was all crazy for? Well, it’s still good, but I hardly ever eat it. You know how middle-aged kids are – they go on eating jags (hot cereal, homemade bread, chicken pot pie) and then they never go back. Well, I wanted pancakes this weekend and thought I could [...]

A quiet boom.

January 15, 2012

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This post was originally just going to be me babbling about how the past couple of weekends, I’ve been back into making no-knead bread. Half of the batch is usually turned into a pizza for lunch. Today as we were throwing toppings on, I was a little self-absorbed and when Lloyd cleared his throat expectantly, [...]

Let’s become very best friends, puff pastry.

January 2, 2012

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Today was a wonderful day, in that I was home from work before 4 o’clock! Woo-hoo! I was so excited, I even got in a tiny nap! Yay! The downside is that my internal clock was confused and within an hour after getting home I was completely ravenous, and it was still early in the [...]