Operation Baking

Nov 24, 2004 19:48

7:48: I decided to ease into the night's cooking extravaganza by toasting some chopped pecans in a skillet—about as simple as it gets: one ingredient, one pan. The recipe called for half a cup, so it's a good thing I bought a cup of pecans; yes, I managed to burn the first batch. (I watched it and stirred it and paid really close attention to it for four or five minutes, then walked to the refrigerator and back, and in those fifteen seconds it went from "slightly toasted" to "charred and black." Humph.) The second batch turned out all right, though; so, with that under my belt, I'm going to tackle the pie crusts. (One single crust for the pumpkin pie, one double crust for the apple pie, and I have exactly enough shortening in the house to make that many; no do-overs on these.)

11:29: Okay, the apple pie's done, the pumpkin pie's in the oven with 45 minutes to go, J.'s icebox-roll dough is in the fridge, and the kitchen's not a total mess. (Actually, it's probably cleaner than when we started, because we had to move and/or wash things just to get enough space on the counters to prepare the food.)
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