Happy and/or Random Thoughts #3

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Peaches said:
Oooh...the bread baking in the oven is starting to smell soooo good.
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My mind is boggled by the fact that you can bake bread from scratch but you can't cook bacon. Can't wrap my mind around the juxtaposition of those two facts. Can't do it.
 
pygmalion said:
My mind is boggled by the fact that you can bake bread from scratch but you can't cook bacon. Can't wrap my mind around the juxtaposition of those two facts. Can't do it.
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Yeah, I know. Bacon just flummoxes me.

As for the bread--I seriously do not deserve credit for this. At all. It doesn't even begin to count as baking. You stir up crap with a spatula, let it sit overnight, then (essentially) dump it on parchment to rise, and then bake it. OK, you have to knead it about a dozen times pre-parchment-dumping. Stupid easy. It's almost disappointing, in that there is so little to it. But...if I wasn't on a diet, and wasn't trying to limit how much carbs I eat anyhow, I'd be baking a loaf of this every day or every other day. I could mix it before I went to work in the morning.

I highly recommend it. Seriously. If you want the recipe, lemme know.

ETA: Whine: I don't wanna give away my loaf of bread!!!
 
Peaches said:
You DON'T have that?? It's by the bags of baby spinach and pre-made salad stuff. (And pre-sliced apples. Don't get me started.)

Normally I don't go in for the pre-whatevered stuff. I see no reason to pay extra money for the convenience most of the time. But since we've never actually made butternut squash at home, I wanted to be able to try it without having to invest the time...which probably would have meant that we'd never get around to actually cooking it. Next time, though, I'll just buy the whole damn squash.
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I've lived in the Mid-Atlantic, the Deep South and now the Southwest. The grocery stores in the Mid-Atlantic have (and I don't think I'm exaggerating here) twice the selection of the stores in either of the other two places I've lived. No idea why.

We have bagged spinach and pre-sliced apples. No pre-chopped butternut squash. Eh. *shrug*
 
Oh and btw do you have a wholesale club membership? I find that the pre-prepared fruit and veg are available at the wholesale club for slightly more than half the price of the grocery store. The selection is limited, but the produce is cheap.

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3wishes said:
Am currently looking at a designers web site that announced "blow out sale" and I thought, hmmppgh- yeah right - no way, Boy Was I Wrong, I might even purchase a new costume at these prices!!! Which makes me happy happy happy. She leaps for joy heh heh heh.
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And you didn't post the site?!?

*laughs*
 
pygmalion said:
Oh and btw do you have a wholesale club membership? I find that the pre-prepared fruit and veg are available at the wholesale club for slightly more than half the price of the grocery store. The selection is limited, but the produce is cheap.

Just a thought. :cool:
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DH does, but I don't. One of these days I would like to get one for myself.

I have 2 problems with buying fruit and veg from wholesale clubs--payment and quantity. Given that they take AmEx (don't have), cash or check...it is just really inconvenient. And most of the time there is just so much of whatever veggie that I can't eat it in a given week. That may change with the dieting, but I don't know if I could plow through that much. (DH really doesn't eat veggies.)
 
Peaches said:
DH does, but I don't. One of these days I would like to get one for myself.

I have 2 problems with buying fruit and veg from wholesale clubs--payment and quantity. Given that they take AmEx (don't have), cash or check...it is just really inconvenient. And most of the time there is just so much of whatever veggie that I can't eat it in a given week. That may change with the dieting, but I don't know if I could plow through that much. (DH really doesn't eat veggies.)
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Gotcha. That's why I'm pretty selective about what I buy at the wholesale club. I find that the berries and grapes aren't competitively priced, so I buy smaller quantities at the grocery store or farmer's market. But the organic spinach, the organic baby carrots, and the sliced apples I find to be reasonably useful. (They also have cheap romaine, but I don't buy it because it makes for a chewy smoothie, IMO. Me no like.) The spinach and apples I buy because a LGS uses a lot of them. The carrots work because they last a long time in the fridge.
 
I suck at planning menus. Why the heck is this?

I can go the expensive route. Or the complicated route. Or I can decide on all kinds of sides...but not the main entree. Usually I manage to hit all three. Why can I not pick simple, easy, inexpensive food to serve.

Hmph.

Current thinking for Lunch With the Girls: butternut squash soup, salad w/ wanuts and raisins and apples and blue cheese, lentils in red wine (for g.f. who is vegetarian--and it makes a good side). Possibly some roasted parsnips. ...but what friggin' entree?? Gah.

Could do Italian-style antipasto (celery, roasted red peppers, olives, capers, marinated artichokes) and veggie lasagna. Not as easy (although make-ahead), and definitely more expensive. And I don't think many people like Italian antipasto aside from my family and the like. I could swap it out for salad...

I suppose there's the standby of mac-n-cheese, mahogany chicken, and some sort of veggie.

Gah. I should be better at this. I grew up with parents' in the food-service industry.
 
I think the mahogony chicken with all of the rest of that is enough..lasagne would be heavy compared to the rest of the meal and antipasto would be uneccesary
 
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