We started with the best intentions. And it was fun! It really was! But documenting everything was taking too much time and effort. It's the lament of many parents, I'm guessing. Therapies, social groups, workshops, IEP meetings, and eventually pre-school ate up our energy.
The good news is that we're still cooking! We're not doing the alphabet schtick, mind you, but we continue to make really good home-cooked meals. And be we, I mean Mary. We joined a CSA, so a lot of meals are planned around whatever we're getting for the week from local NC farmers. Mary got a rice cooker for Christmas two years ago, and Quinoa has been putting in a favorable showing recently, alongside a lot of other rice dishes.
We also restored her great aunt Johnny's iron skillet and have been cooking with it a fair amount recently. We looked up the stamp on the bottom, and found that the company that made it went out of business in the 1920's!
I'm sorry we abandoned our blogging, but thank you (Patricia especially) for your interest! Maybe we'll do something like this again in the future, when we're not so plowed under. Keep cooking!
Jan 31, 2013
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Noodles made of poodles with a slice of garden hose, and Nish Nobblers
Mary has a funny cookbook called Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes. It has dishes that reference Roald Dahl's many surreal stories. And the two we chose weren't too hard.
The noodles weren't really made from poodles or garden hose. But Mary did make noodles from scratch, which is a first for us. Half were regular, and half were heavily infused with parsley. We hung them from coat hangers to dry before cooking them. Our flour was on the stale side, but seemed to work okay. We ate them with packaged meatballs, olive oil, and parmesan.
The Nish Nobblers were simply molded chocolate. Except the mold was bubble wrap. We tempered some chocolate and then spread it over the bubbles before putting it in the fridge to harden. Really simple, and really cool. We started looking for silicone candy molds for the future, since the process of tempering chocolate seems to be pretty easy.
Mary has a funny cookbook called Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes. It has dishes that reference Roald Dahl's many surreal stories. And the two we chose weren't too hard.
The noodles weren't really made from poodles or garden hose. But Mary did make noodles from scratch, which is a first for us. Half were regular, and half were heavily infused with parsley. We hung them from coat hangers to dry before cooking them. Our flour was on the stale side, but seemed to work okay. We ate them with packaged meatballs, olive oil, and parmesan.
The Nish Nobblers were simply molded chocolate. Except the mold was bubble wrap. We tempered some chocolate and then spread it over the bubbles before putting it in the fridge to harden. Really simple, and really cool. We started looking for silicone candy molds for the future, since the process of tempering chocolate seems to be pretty easy.
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