Last Weekend in May ... The Good and the Bad
Things are in rest mode for me this weekend.
We were lucky to have two rain free days with a bit of sun but rather than going out and running errands (I need to get my hair cut and pick up some dried chiles at the Mexican grocery store), I stayed home and dug into my freezer for meals.
For the second weekend in a row, I barbecued ... three pork chops and I put a bit of colour and smoke flavour on a couple of baked potatoes that were cooked in the microwave. All 'good'.
While doing three loads of laundry in the basement, I made 2 dozen cream puffs to take to work with me on Tuesday as I already have a job booked and promised them to one of my fellow supplies who is doing a long term at the same school. I'm filling half with pastry cream and the other half with sweetened whipping cream, although I may add some lemon curd to some of the whipped cream. I haven't decided yet.
The 'bad' is a relative term. I brough home two pounds of sweet red cherries a few days ago and decided on an easy cherry cobbler recipe I found on line. There were no reviews to refer to, which was my first mistake. I decided to only make a half recipe, baked in individual ramekins, because I didn't want to be eating the cobber every day for a week.
I tasted the cherries and they were sweet so I reduced the sugar called for for the filling ... a bit. Next time, I'd cut back on the whole recipe's sugar from 1 1/4 cups to 2/3 of a cup. Hopefully that would be enough of a reduction cause MAN was the cobbler filling sweet. Then, I messed up when measuring the butter. I forgot to half the amount. The dough seemed very dry so I added a bit more milk. I ended up with something that I had to pinch off bits to dot over the top of the fruit.
Oh well, you live and learn when it comes to baking.
We were lucky to have two rain free days with a bit of sun but rather than going out and running errands (I need to get my hair cut and pick up some dried chiles at the Mexican grocery store), I stayed home and dug into my freezer for meals.
For the second weekend in a row, I barbecued ... three pork chops and I put a bit of colour and smoke flavour on a couple of baked potatoes that were cooked in the microwave. All 'good'.
While doing three loads of laundry in the basement, I made 2 dozen cream puffs to take to work with me on Tuesday as I already have a job booked and promised them to one of my fellow supplies who is doing a long term at the same school. I'm filling half with pastry cream and the other half with sweetened whipping cream, although I may add some lemon curd to some of the whipped cream. I haven't decided yet.
The 'bad' is a relative term. I brough home two pounds of sweet red cherries a few days ago and decided on an easy cherry cobbler recipe I found on line. There were no reviews to refer to, which was my first mistake. I decided to only make a half recipe, baked in individual ramekins, because I didn't want to be eating the cobber every day for a week.
I tasted the cherries and they were sweet so I reduced the sugar called for for the filling ... a bit. Next time, I'd cut back on the whole recipe's sugar from 1 1/4 cups to 2/3 of a cup. Hopefully that would be enough of a reduction cause MAN was the cobbler filling sweet. Then, I messed up when measuring the butter. I forgot to half the amount. The dough seemed very dry so I added a bit more milk. I ended up with something that I had to pinch off bits to dot over the top of the fruit.
Oh well, you live and learn when it comes to baking.