Sometimes when I buy strawberries, I’m deeply disappointed by their lack of flavor. That was not a problem this time! They aren’t overly sweet, and they aren’t overly tart, but they are packed with tasty goodness. Yum!
Tag: food
Red Peppers
Today’s peppers are red.
Yellow Peppers
My mid-morning snack. I like them raw, better than cooked.
More Crackers
These are plain. I’m out of bread, too lazy to make more, and wanted egg salad for supper. Egg salad on crackers sounded like a good plan. Yum!
This batch took more water (almost exactly 1/2 cup), probably because it had no cheese. I changed the recipe on the earlier post to reflect that the water amount will vary. Just add water until it looks knead-able and roll-able. If you over-do the water, add more flour. It’s very forgiving.
Crackers
I wanted a something, but didn’t know what. Cookies? Brownies? Bread? Crackers! So I hunted down a recipe and went to work.
The recipe is easy peasy:
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt (I lowered the amount from 1/2 teaspoon because I added cheese, which is salty)
2 tablespoons cold butter
1/4-1/2 cup water (more or less as needed)
4 ounces or so of shredded cheese
1 tablespoon coarsely ground garlic powder
cornmeal
flour for rolling out
Preheat oven to 400F and lightly cover a cookie sheet with cornmeal.
Dump the flour and salt into a bowl, then use a grater to shred the butter. Add it slowly and toss with the flour so that each strand gets coated separately. Add about half the cheese. Add enough water to bring everything together, then turn out on a floured board and roll it out to about 1/8 inch thickness (thinner = crispier). Place onto cookie sheet, sprinkle with the rest of the shredded cheese, then score with a knife or cut into pieces with a pizza cutter.
Bake for about 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack. Then NOM.
Peeps on Safari
One of my coworkers gave me a package of stale Peeps Snowmen. Peeps aren’t fit for human consumption, so I took them out in the garden for a photo shoot.
Grapefruit
There is nothing tastier than grapefruit with a little bit of salt. Nothing.
Gratuitous Brownie
I’m glad I made brownies last night, because they were the only good thing about this day. Tomorrow cannot come soon enough.
Paneer
I had some odds and ends of milk products to use up (skim milk, half-and-half, and buttermilk), so I thought I’d try making cheese. It is easy and fast, and the only ingredients are milk, lemon juice (or some other acid to curdle the milk), and salt. No fancy gadgets are required, either–just a piece of cheesecloth or a thin, lint-free towel, a saucepan, a couple of plates, a colander, and some kind of weight to press the liquid out of the curd.
Curdling the Milk
Straining the Curd
Strained Cheese Curd
Pressing the Curd
Finished
Moong Dal and Taxes
Taxes are done, done, done! And it only took 27 minutes. I went ahead and filed both state and federal electronically, but my understanding is that federal returns are going to be held up because of the late changes to the tax laws. So I guess we’ll just wait and see how long it takes.
Laundry is almost done, too. I wish I could say as much for the house, because it looks like a bomb hit it. I didn’t get any cleaning done this weekend, unless you count emptying and (re)filling the dish washer, and I’m pretty sure you can’t.
And now for a gratuitous food photo.
Moong Dal, inverted lens macro
red paper boat 