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Pretzel experiment

October 7, 2024 by Lauren 2 Comments

Our local brewery sells giant pretzels that you can buy frozen and take home. You spritz them with water, sprinkle on the salt and then pop them in the microwave for three minutes. Boom. Hot pretzel, and they even sell dips to use.

They are a bit pricey, and of course, Cheap Lauren wanted to try making them on her own. The recipe is really easy, and surprisingly it doesn’t take a whole day. Here it is, if you want to scroll through the big story and see it at the bottom.

I made some mistakes, but that’s ok. I’ll know more for next time. Mostly, I am incredibly proud of me for following the recipe to the letter. I know!

My big mistake was not rolling them out longer and thinner. I knew it as I was doing it but didn’t stop myself. I was mostly worried about them fitting in my giant fry pan of boiling baking soda water, but now I know to make three of them instead of two. Also, Lauren, don’t flour the rolling surface when you shape them.

The pan has 9 cups of water and 1/2 a cup of baking soda. It gave me a reason to repackage my old box of baking soda and say, “That’s a lot of b.s.”

Behold the aftermath of splashing boiling baking soda water all over.

Here’s the final product. As I said, mistakes were made. They are good with a dipping sauce, but they needed a bit more time in the oven, and since they were so globby, they browned unevenly. I worried the dark parts would be burnt before the rest browned.

I’ll do better next time.

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A taste of nostalgia

October 6, 2024 by Lauren 2 Comments

I have had a crazy craving for Cap’n Crunch cereal lately. I’ve done a pretty good job putting it off because 1) food is rather expensive now and it seemed like a waste of money, 2) my waist is rather expansive now and it seemed like ….. eh, you get the joke. I don’t need […]

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LLogo

October 5, 2024 by Lauren 3 Comments

When Brad was here last week, I was telling him how hard it was to post because I go so long between them, I feel like I need to do a big ‘catch up’ post. He said just post about little dumb things, so that’s what I’m doing. (However, for the memory archive: my left […]

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Meeting update

August 21, 2024 by Lauren 1 Comment

Hey, Brady and Deborah, here’s the update: Lloyd and I don’t have it bad at all. What has been a mild inconvenience for us has been a nightmare for the people living at the intersection north of us. Several are either elderly or have health issues and this has affected them greatly. Lloyd and I […]

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The Roads

August 17, 2024 by Lauren 3 Comments

I feel like I need to write this down because someday all the roads in Seward will be fixed and I will have forgotten about it completely.  Sometime long, long ago, they began a BUNCH of road construction in Seward. For Lloyd and I it began a block north of our house when they tore […]

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Some data points

July 30, 2024 by Lauren 1 Comment

(blows dust off keyboard) Does this thing still work? The main thing I’ve come to appreciate about the website is that it gave me a record of stuff that has happened. Unfortunately, too much has happened and there will be no flowery explanations right now – just a list of things. Good enough. I think […]

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