Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
Daughter, SIL and grand kids are coming for Chili, cheesy corn bread and the special request is my Cheesy baked Mac-N-Cheese. (with the "secret" ingredient..dry mustard)
I’m at the beach in NC. Nice weather. Ate at my favorite local seafood restaurant last evening. Doing some cleaning out today. Because of the storm special trash pickup on Monday. Anything other than hazardous waste, paint.
Bread is not hard to make. Once you get the feel of it and are comfortable with a basic bread recipe you can play around with making sweet breads cinnamon buns, rye bread etc. Somewhere I have a recipe for very light rolls which require little kneading and are fool proof. Delicious!!! I never used anything special - just regular pans.
Please don't bother with a breadmaker.
I have been baking the "Overnight Almost No Knead Bread" for a while and it is so easy. I call it Stupid Simple.
ANYONE can make a professional looking, great tasting bread with hardly any effort.
I could send the recipe if you like PM me or look up Almost no knead bread recipes.
Basics mix flour, yeast, salt and water in a bowl. Cover and let sit on the counter 8 to 18 hours.
Turn it out onto the counter turn it over a bit just to deflate it.
Form it into a loose ball (it is rather wet and sticky) cover for 1 1/2 hours.
Place a Dutch oven in the oven and heat, when it gets to temp dust the bread with flour make a few slashes in it then plop it into the Dutch Oven cover and bake, remove cover and bake a bit longer.
Dinner tonight.
I made lasagna and a fresh boule.
I had thawed out what I thought was pasta sauce only to find out that it is Chili so I had to make sauce for the lasagna.
When I told my daughter about this she said..ok when are we having chili.
So tomorrow night
Chili, jalapeno cheddar cornbread and eldest grand son has requested my baked Mac-N-Cheese so that is the menu for tomorrow.
And I have enough left over lasagna for later in the week a meal or two. I may freeze half of it for next week as well.
Maybe the thought counts too.😀
But.... cheesecake for desert
Gotta pick you battles :)
All this talk about baking bread makes me want fresh bread! We always have the frozen bread for holiday meals. Hmm Maybe I will ask my SO for a bread maker for Christmas.
Nothing smells better than bread baking. Your house must smell heavenly!
i like to bake on nights when I can’t sleep.
Dinner was chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, green beans, sliced tomatoes.
That’s what I like, the thin crust. I don’t like thick crust. If I did a pizza I would want a thin crust. I’m with you on the gluten free stuff. If it’s a medical reason I get it, otherwise no.
My daughter tried that cauliflower crust recipe. I guess it’s good. Like you say, trends come and go. She also does the zucchini noodles. For a college kid she eats healthy! I bought her a crockpot to cook in while she is in school. She does soups. So all she makes is a salad to go with it and it’s easy for her.
I know quite a few people who are gluten free these days. That would be a pain to cook gluten free.
I know even some of the pizza places near me offer gluten free dough. Wonder what it taste like. I can’t eat meat on pizza anymore. Lost my taste for pepperoni and stuff like that. I like veggie pizza only now.
Have you done pizza dough? Would that be hard to do?
I like cooking, just don’t eat a lot. Plus I get tired of cooking at times.
Homemade bread is a labor of love. I admire you. I only did it once! Haha
I have done quick breads. They are really more like cake!
I love hot tea when I am sick. Any kind, herbal or black tea.
Peanut butter and chili. See why he’s your ex! Hahaha
I’m run down and then the immune system gets weak. Still, I haven’t been sick with a cold in years! Well, a cold is not serious so I will be back to normal soon.
I like Paella. It’s sort of like our jambalaya. Well, Louisiana is French and Spanish. We actually have a mixture of cultures and our food reflects that.
I made paella the other night. I had no sausage or clams on hand so it was just chicken and shrimp as the meats. I ate too much of it, so dinner last night was a sandwich. Which reminds me, I need to boil some eggs. I used up the last two last night.
Gladimhere, I once dated a guy who always had to have a peanut butter sandwich with his chili! Yuk!!!
I really do not understand the cinnamon roll thing, at all.