WildGinger of Leave
Oct. 10th, 2024 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoIt will come as no surprise when I announce that I'm tired! Also no surprise that this will be a very boring cooking post, for that's what I've done all day, at a steady pace. Mixed up the bread dough. Made gluten free biscuits and put them in the refrigerator to chill, as recommended, while the bread was rising. Also put the gluten free brownies in the oven. The bread was ready. so I baked that next--three loaves. Then I turned the oven up to the temperature for the biscuits. The butter started melting out of them, just like on the Great British Bake-Off! They looked a little like hockey pucks, and I had to bake them about twice as long as the recipe said, but maybe I cut them out too big. Anyway, they had a nice lightly browned top, and smelled okay. But to me, gluten free items are never really as good, no matter how hard the recipe creator tries to sell you on them. Meanwhile, I had been making a double batch of chocolate cake batter at top speed, so it could go in as soon as the biscuits came out. I had to make it in a roasting pan, because I don't have a cake pan that big. And then I had to take a slight break and clean up a lot of pots and pans to make sure the frosting implemnts would be gluten free and not contaminate the gf brownies. There's a point in every project where it becomes a horrific mess, and that was it for this one. It was about 4 pm, so I had an hour and a half to go.
I washed and broke up three heads of lettuce and a couple of pints of strawberries and blueberries and found a container for it all. Then I made a double batch of frosting. The cake was just barely cooled enough to be frosted. I sliced the bread and put butter in two separate containers, one to be gluten free for the gf biscuits. I warmed up the stew, which I'd previously found room for in the real refrigerator. And I had it all packaged up and ready to go when the messenger arrived to get it at 5:30. I told her the one big thing she could do for me was to make sure I got my cooking containers back, because I'd be crippled without them! The Sparrowhawk went out and got us a pizza, because I had no inclination to cook any more at that point.
Queenie in Florida survived the night, and their little housing cluster still had power and was not flooded! The Fireman made it through the night in the emergency command center, without too much going wrong. Queenie says there's a lot of flooding around, and some roads out. The beautiful cranes who live in their neighborhood, whose pictures she takes on her walks and sends to me, also survived! I'm very happy for them.
We badly need a good night's sleep, because we're taking care of Bird Baby tomorrow in lieu of the Duchess, who is still en route back from the UP. Lots of missions accomplished.
I washed and broke up three heads of lettuce and a couple of pints of strawberries and blueberries and found a container for it all. Then I made a double batch of frosting. The cake was just barely cooled enough to be frosted. I sliced the bread and put butter in two separate containers, one to be gluten free for the gf biscuits. I warmed up the stew, which I'd previously found room for in the real refrigerator. And I had it all packaged up and ready to go when the messenger arrived to get it at 5:30. I told her the one big thing she could do for me was to make sure I got my cooking containers back, because I'd be crippled without them! The Sparrowhawk went out and got us a pizza, because I had no inclination to cook any more at that point.
Queenie in Florida survived the night, and their little housing cluster still had power and was not flooded! The Fireman made it through the night in the emergency command center, without too much going wrong. Queenie says there's a lot of flooding around, and some roads out. The beautiful cranes who live in their neighborhood, whose pictures she takes on her walks and sends to me, also survived! I'm very happy for them.
We badly need a good night's sleep, because we're taking care of Bird Baby tomorrow in lieu of the Duchess, who is still en route back from the UP. Lots of missions accomplished.
