In which nobody will find this interesting, but I’ma write it anyway because I feel like it! One thing I thought, at first, was really cool about the whole MIU campus experience was the vegetarian (!!!) dining hall. Vegetarian! All of it! I’d gone vegetarian within, I think, half a year of moving out on […]
In which I can’t fucking cook AT ALL anymore?! Yesterday, I hurt my back walking across my kitchen. Just walking. (After doing several other things, chores, window cleaning, and dropping something and startling so hard I somehow actually caught it: that was probably when the twinge really began. But we’ll say I was walking. Because […]
In which I’ve gotten up from a nap hungry. Apropos of nothing, I have a sudden and intense desire for a fish sandwich from McD’s?! What the hell! They’re terrible! Every time I eat one (this happens once or twice a decade, on average) I regret it. — Update: For the record, I settled for […]
In which I decided to blog. So here’s a blog post! Enjoy! It will not be interesting. My contact lenses showed up a few days ago, so I’ve just sat down to fill out the rebate. (The only reason I ordered this new brand of contacts was that the optometrist’s office told me they’d be […]
In which there’s baking. Tonight’s dinner: A freshly baked loaf of bread on the left. On the right, leftover bucatini with store-bought vodka sauce and tofu “meatballs” I made with basically no regard for the recipe I’d read. Fresh basil from the plant on my kitchen window sill! Not shown: it cooled down to the […]
In which I’m making soup! I’ve just put some vegetables, herbs de Provence, and broth into the Instantpot. Will add cream when it’s done and blend it. Baked a stunning loaf of bread last night; gonna make a brie sandwich with it and that’ll be dinner! Pluto has a channel that just plays endless back-to-back […]
In which these are my go-to pizza sauces! Since I got into #breadin5, I’ve been making a lot of pizza. Here are my favorite pizza sauce recipes. Tomato Sauce 14 oz can tomatoes 3 – 4 garlic cloves olive oil balsamic vinegar salt & pepper red pepper flakes Blend until smooth. If you don’t have […]
In which there’s a TINY GRILL! So I use a Chase VISA that gives me points. I spent some on this little grill and it arrived today. I realize it’s a pandemic and I probably should have turned those points into cash but JUST LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE, PORTABLE LITTLE THING. Holy shit. Smitten. Now […]
In which these are just baking notes (I’ll want to know what ratios I used if this batch is either a raging success or a terrific failure). Grocery store’s been entirely out of flour the last few times I was in there, but last Sunday’s paper had an article about a local wheat farmer. Visited […]
In which, okay, I know I’ve posted too much about bread lately, and some of these pics are recycled, but this is my adaptation of someone else’s adaptation of the ‘Artisan Bread In 5 Minutes A Day’ method. I think I’ve got my dough recipe dialed in! This has amazing crust and crumb. Here we […]
