Mamacita says: I think I’ve forgotten Ten Things Tuesday these past few weeks, but I’ll try to do better now that things are settling down a bit here.
Just a bit, mind you, but that’s better than before!
1. I love to bake homemade bread. People are always threatening me with a bread machine, but I do not want one. Not in the LEAST! Bread machine bread is not homemade bread. It’s only truly homemade bread if you mix it all up in a huge bowl, measuring with your eyes and the palm of your hand, throw it on the table and knead it with your own two hands, divide it into loaves yourself, and bake them in an oven. Calling bread machine bread “homemade” is like calling Betty Crocker Cake Mix cake homemade. They’re good, sure, but they are NOT “homemade.” They are cheating.
2. I can not make good homemade cake, so I cheat with Betty Crocker. Sometimes, I cheat with Duncan Hines. It depends on who’s cheaper that week. I am a discount cheater.
3. I want to dress up and go to a party.
4. I don’t understand why school textbook companies put such lousy poetry in their textbooks. It’s almost as though they don’t want our kids to learn to love it.
5. Textbook companies that put abridged versions of anything in their textbooks are not good companies.
6. School systems that purchase a textbook containing an abridgement are not good school systems.
7. I am bored. Seriously, dangerously, bored.
8. I am also exhausted. Seriously, dangerously, exhausted.
9. I want to bungee-jump off a bridge over deep water. That way, if the cord breaks, I won’t splatter on concrete; I’ll just swim to a rock and hold on until a heliocopter drops a rope and rescues me. Then I can tell people that not only have I bungee-jumped; I’ve also dangled from a heliocopter.
10. When Kim had J.D.’s baby, Scrubs may have jumped the shark for me.
That’s ten things, so I’ll stop now.
Don’t forget: The Carnival of Education is over at Steve Spangler’s blog this week, so get your entries in!
Best bread I’ve ever eaten, from Bernard Clayton’s book, here:
https://rightwingnation.com/2007/01/27/soups-stews-and-bread/
The other recipes are pretty good, too. Enjoy!
(And is recovery going smoothly?)
Best bread I’ve ever eaten, from Bernard Clayton’s book, here:
https://rightwingnation.com/2007/01/27/soups-stews-and-bread/
The other recipes are pretty good, too. Enjoy!
(And is recovery going smoothly?)
Good Lord at my grammar. Please substitute the word “may” for the word “can.” (I know better; it’s lunch time and my brain is also out to lunch. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.)
Good Lord at my grammar. Please substitute the word “may” for the word “can.” (I know better; it’s lunch time and my brain is also out to lunch. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.)
1. If you get dressed up and go to a party, can I come too?
2. If I ever decide to blog again, can I steal your “10 Things Tuesday” format?
3. I’ll buy the ingredients if you’ll bake the bread! (I love fresh bread — even more than chocolate!)
1. If you get dressed up and go to a party, can I come too?
2. If I ever decide to blog again, can I steal your “10 Things Tuesday” format?
3. I’ll buy the ingredients if you’ll bake the bread! (I love fresh bread — even more than chocolate!)
If you want a great brownie mix, buy Ghirardelli at Costco. They’re the best!!! I’ll never make brownies from scratch again.
If you want a great brownie mix, buy Ghirardelli at Costco. They’re the best!!! I’ll never make brownies from scratch again.
I need some help with homemade bread recipes, too. I don’t own a bread machine, so I’d love to find a really good bread recipe to make it myself. (I prefer from-scratch stuff, too.) As far as cake: Oh, goodness, I LOVE making cakes from scratch. The only cake I refuse to make that way is an angel food cake (eek! millions of egg whites and fluffing said egg parts!) I am on a hunt for the perfect German chocolate cake recipe for my husband. I’ve found a pretty good one as far as cake, but the icing isn’t where I want it to be yet.
I DO have a homemade roll recipe from a restaurant in Canada that makes the BEST homemade rolls I’ve ever had in my entire life. Mmmmmmm…literally melt in your mouth rolls. I’d always thought “melt in your mouth” as far as rolls was figurative until I had these. Delicious!
I need some help with homemade bread recipes, too. I don’t own a bread machine, so I’d love to find a really good bread recipe to make it myself. (I prefer from-scratch stuff, too.) As far as cake: Oh, goodness, I LOVE making cakes from scratch. The only cake I refuse to make that way is an angel food cake (eek! millions of egg whites and fluffing said egg parts!) I am on a hunt for the perfect German chocolate cake recipe for my husband. I’ve found a pretty good one as far as cake, but the icing isn’t where I want it to be yet.
I DO have a homemade roll recipe from a restaurant in Canada that makes the BEST homemade rolls I’ve ever had in my entire life. Mmmmmmm…literally melt in your mouth rolls. I’d always thought “melt in your mouth” as far as rolls was figurative until I had these. Delicious!
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I want to know tips for making homemade bread! Ay! Figuring out the yeast and the rising! So perplexing!
I want to know tips for making homemade bread! Ay! Figuring out the yeast and the rising! So perplexing!
My family hates me because I think Scrubs are a glorified version of Friends. How did you learn to make homemade bread? Is there anyplace on the ‘net you can recommend that has recipes/instructions? We have a bread machine, but haven’t used it in years. The bread does have a slightly unnatural taste. Plus it comes out of the machine all sweaty and with a hole in the bottom where the knife was. I’m ready to try something different.
I made Easter bread this year and it turned out great during the Palm Sunday’s trial run. Then on Easter, I couldn’t make it because all stores were out of yeast. Maybe next year.
My family hates me because I think Scrubs are a glorified version of Friends. How did you learn to make homemade bread? Is there anyplace on the ‘net you can recommend that has recipes/instructions? We have a bread machine, but haven’t used it in years. The bread does have a slightly unnatural taste. Plus it comes out of the machine all sweaty and with a hole in the bottom where the knife was. I’m ready to try something different.
I made Easter bread this year and it turned out great during the Palm Sunday’s trial run. Then on Easter, I couldn’t make it because all stores were out of yeast. Maybe next year.
2. I can not make good homemade cake, so I cheat with Betty Crocker. Sometimes, I cheat with Duncan Hines. It depends on who’s cheaper that week. I am a discount cheater.
Mrs. Chili says this is not cheating. I have yet to find a yellow cake recipe from scratch that’s better than what I can get out of a box, so I get it out of a box (I have a killer chocolate from-scratch recipe, though). I haven’t found a scratch brownie recipe worth eating, so it’s boxed for that, too. It’s only cheating if you HAVE a scratch recipe that’s just as good -or better- but cook out of a box, anyway.
2. I can not make good homemade cake, so I cheat with Betty Crocker. Sometimes, I cheat with Duncan Hines. It depends on who’s cheaper that week. I am a discount cheater.
Mrs. Chili says this is not cheating. I have yet to find a yellow cake recipe from scratch that’s better than what I can get out of a box, so I get it out of a box (I have a killer chocolate from-scratch recipe, though). I haven’t found a scratch brownie recipe worth eating, so it’s boxed for that, too. It’s only cheating if you HAVE a scratch recipe that’s just as good -or better- but cook out of a box, anyway.