happy Halloween!
If you're celebrating. My plans involve staying home, going to bed early and not answering the door. /Halloween scrooge
I've been doing a bit of cooking and baking. I started some bread dough (to be baked tomorrow), roasted a butternut squash and ate some of it with pasta and blue cheese, I'm roasting some beets right now to go into a mustardy vinaigrette, and I've made up a batch of dough for oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries and dark and white chocolate chips. I'm going to portion out the cookie dough and freeze most of it, some to bring to a little work party later in the week, some so that I can bake lovely fresh cookies whenever I want them!
Tomorrow I'm going to make a beef and mushroom pie with a hot-water pastry. I've temporarily surrendered on the lard issue and bought the smallest available box of supermarket stuff. It'll do for experimenting with, and the next time I see pork fat for sale I'll definitely buy some.
If I'm feeling ambitious tomorrow I may also put together some individual apple pies, which can be stored frozen, like the cookie dough, and baked whenever I get the craving.
Last weekend I neglected to post about the rest of my baking, so here goes! I baked some rye bread (fine, but uninspiring) and some little buns filled with curried potatoes. The latter have made excellent lunches throughout the week--I just take one out of the freezer in the morning, bring it to work in a ziplock bag, and by lunchtime it's thawed and ready. I like this in a lunch, because I do not want to be assembling a sandwich at five o'clock in the morning, so I may adopt filled buns as a lunchtime staple. The buns could be filled with just about anything that's fairly dry and can stand up to 15 minutes of baking: many other curries, or things like ham and cheese, chicken with chutney or pesto, leftover roast beef with mustard . . . yum.
Next weekend--really I only cook on weekends now, it's a bit sad--I think I'm going to make a chicken waterzooi, which is a creamy stew. The recipe I have calls for parsley root, and parsley root is currently available in my local market, so I want to make this before it disappears.
Mmm, autumn food, how I love it.
Of course I don't only think about food. I also think about Yuletide. I have what should be a workable idea for my assignment, which I should get started on this weekend so as not to fall into Procrastination Hell.
Other than Yuletide I'm at a bit of a low ebb fannishly. But I'm looking forward to the new Bond movie, and to the gay spy thriller London Spy. There are probably a zillion other great things coming out between now and the new year as well, which hopefully I won't be too busy/exhausted from work to see.
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I've been doing a bit of cooking and baking. I started some bread dough (to be baked tomorrow), roasted a butternut squash and ate some of it with pasta and blue cheese, I'm roasting some beets right now to go into a mustardy vinaigrette, and I've made up a batch of dough for oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries and dark and white chocolate chips. I'm going to portion out the cookie dough and freeze most of it, some to bring to a little work party later in the week, some so that I can bake lovely fresh cookies whenever I want them!
Tomorrow I'm going to make a beef and mushroom pie with a hot-water pastry. I've temporarily surrendered on the lard issue and bought the smallest available box of supermarket stuff. It'll do for experimenting with, and the next time I see pork fat for sale I'll definitely buy some.
If I'm feeling ambitious tomorrow I may also put together some individual apple pies, which can be stored frozen, like the cookie dough, and baked whenever I get the craving.
Last weekend I neglected to post about the rest of my baking, so here goes! I baked some rye bread (fine, but uninspiring) and some little buns filled with curried potatoes. The latter have made excellent lunches throughout the week--I just take one out of the freezer in the morning, bring it to work in a ziplock bag, and by lunchtime it's thawed and ready. I like this in a lunch, because I do not want to be assembling a sandwich at five o'clock in the morning, so I may adopt filled buns as a lunchtime staple. The buns could be filled with just about anything that's fairly dry and can stand up to 15 minutes of baking: many other curries, or things like ham and cheese, chicken with chutney or pesto, leftover roast beef with mustard . . . yum.
Next weekend--really I only cook on weekends now, it's a bit sad--I think I'm going to make a chicken waterzooi, which is a creamy stew. The recipe I have calls for parsley root, and parsley root is currently available in my local market, so I want to make this before it disappears.
Mmm, autumn food, how I love it.
Of course I don't only think about food. I also think about Yuletide. I have what should be a workable idea for my assignment, which I should get started on this weekend so as not to fall into Procrastination Hell.
Other than Yuletide I'm at a bit of a low ebb fannishly. But I'm looking forward to the new Bond movie, and to the gay spy thriller London Spy. There are probably a zillion other great things coming out between now and the new year as well, which hopefully I won't be too busy/exhausted from work to see.
Crossposted at Dreamwidth (
comments); you can comment here or there.