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The cake is WONDERFUL! I need to fix my notes about the agar agar -- I used 1% the weight of coconut cream and the eggs and boiled it earlier in my instructions, i think, but my scale seems to be .. wonky at the single gram level. And i added 2/3 c confectioner's sugar to the coconut cream. It set up beautifully. Also, i love parchment paper. I am not sure it would have un-molded so well? I need to do an Bavarian cream mold test, i guess.
Monday i learned how to make a shakshuka-like meal. In making the cake, i screwed up separating two eggs, and i had the more liquid part of the can of coconut cream. Googling those ingredients eventually led me to a coconut curry shakshuka recipe that i proceeded to basically ignore. I had leftover oven roasted onions and a dab of left over bell peppers and some leftover stew (made with leftover rice. Broiling the sauce with the egg was new to me and ... i liked it! Will do again!
When i got the spices out, i found i have sumac in the house. I forgot to add it to the eggs baked in sauce. [1]
I had ordered "[brand] - Himalayan Black Rock Salt - ... - Kala Namak - Contains 84+ Minerals - Perfect for Cooking, Vegan Tofu, Vegan Omlettes" in late December from Amazon and then received two notices from Amazon that the order was delayed. When given the choice to cancel, i did.
I'm looking now at fair trade vendors and keep going down spice rabbit holes. I have been looking at Turkish and Syrian peppers, milder than the chipolte and different than the ancho pepper. And then there's mesquite powder which looks fascinating.
And sweet grass is on sale, three plants, at Prairie Moon. I wonder how well sweet grass and lemon grass would grow together?
I have a small clump of Lemon grass i have persisted by bringing it in overnight.
We don't eat out that much (if i disregard pizza and Chipolte). Actually, i guess i've eaten at the Community College training kitchen (yum!), the nearby Greek fast food place, the amazing Indian food from a gas station with my sister. That's been a pleasant change of pace.
Fortunately, i have a small pause button so i can be confident about the sense of ordering because, i am waiting on a replacement debit card. I experienced the weirdest debit card hack last week. Someone used my debit card to place an online order a $600+ flat screen tv from Lowes to be delivered to the house (??!!) while i was getting an X-ray last Wednesday. (Yay, no pneumonia!) They used an email i never use for buying things. I don't understand "the angle" unless they thought they could get the delivery destination changed? Because it was one of my email addresses, i got the order and could cancel it. Our Lowes account had cards that were expired in it, but not the card they used. Utter mystery. However, i am now impatient for the new card.
[1] I don't like runny eggs, so i'm going to call it baked, and taking shakshuka and making it a curry and then making it random fridge ingredients -- well, let's just be generic and not create a cultural expectation. So, eggs cooked in sauce and note to self that 1/2 teaspoon (guestimated from contents in a tea spoon) of ancho is about enough for something filling the whole small cast iron pan. I've just stopped sniffling,
Monday i learned how to make a shakshuka-like meal. In making the cake, i screwed up separating two eggs, and i had the more liquid part of the can of coconut cream. Googling those ingredients eventually led me to a coconut curry shakshuka recipe that i proceeded to basically ignore. I had leftover oven roasted onions and a dab of left over bell peppers and some leftover stew (made with leftover rice. Broiling the sauce with the egg was new to me and ... i liked it! Will do again!
When i got the spices out, i found i have sumac in the house. I forgot to add it to the eggs baked in sauce. [1]
I had ordered "[brand] - Himalayan Black Rock Salt - ... - Kala Namak - Contains 84+ Minerals - Perfect for Cooking, Vegan Tofu, Vegan Omlettes" in late December from Amazon and then received two notices from Amazon that the order was delayed. When given the choice to cancel, i did.
I'm looking now at fair trade vendors and keep going down spice rabbit holes. I have been looking at Turkish and Syrian peppers, milder than the chipolte and different than the ancho pepper. And then there's mesquite powder which looks fascinating.
And sweet grass is on sale, three plants, at Prairie Moon. I wonder how well sweet grass and lemon grass would grow together?
I have a small clump of Lemon grass i have persisted by bringing it in overnight.
We don't eat out that much (if i disregard pizza and Chipolte). Actually, i guess i've eaten at the Community College training kitchen (yum!), the nearby Greek fast food place, the amazing Indian food from a gas station with my sister. That's been a pleasant change of pace.
Fortunately, i have a small pause button so i can be confident about the sense of ordering because, i am waiting on a replacement debit card. I experienced the weirdest debit card hack last week. Someone used my debit card to place an online order a $600+ flat screen tv from Lowes to be delivered to the house (??!!) while i was getting an X-ray last Wednesday. (Yay, no pneumonia!) They used an email i never use for buying things. I don't understand "the angle" unless they thought they could get the delivery destination changed? Because it was one of my email addresses, i got the order and could cancel it. Our Lowes account had cards that were expired in it, but not the card they used. Utter mystery. However, i am now impatient for the new card.
[1] I don't like runny eggs, so i'm going to call it baked, and taking shakshuka and making it a curry and then making it random fridge ingredients -- well, let's just be generic and not create a cultural expectation. So, eggs cooked in sauce and note to self that 1/2 teaspoon (guestimated from contents in a tea spoon) of ancho is about enough for something filling the whole small cast iron pan. I've just stopped sniffling,