My Saturday Six

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dawnnys

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1. Kicked off the weekend by clearing everything from kitchen counters and bleaching them. Put only half the stuff back.

2. Immediately got them messy again by making salmon appetizers in puff pastry with tzatziki for tommorow. I hope they'll reheat well.

3. Small get-together with neighbors coming over (thinking mostly wives and kids) to watch hockey/other Olympics tomorrow afternoon. Of course this means making Brian Boitano's sandwiches with the cute little flags of all the countries, but instead going for simple chicken salad/egg salad/ham salad quarters; Molson Golden; Lindt gold truffles; a bowl of Golden Delicious apples; and maple cream cookies (making tomorrow a.m.). I love themed parties.

4. Went for a long walk around the neighborhood with neice and her new puppy.

5. Took the cross-country skis out of the rafters (I was inspired by watching all the skiing in Vancouver), decided it was too wet this weekend, and opted to go to the farmer's market instead. Typical.

6. Picked up some French roast for my espresso maker (mmmm, good!), which I brought upstairs from the basement and put on that clean, uncluttered counter.

 
My Saturday Six

1. We had dinner at in-laws, prime rib, mashed potatoes and gravy, asparagus, fruit pizza (if I can get my stepdaughter to send me the pic she took of it, I will post it. She did an amazing job!) and Oreo Cookie cheesecake. Very very good dinner.

2. It's snowing.

3. Started chatting with a woman in the grocery line and it ends up she is from Riverside and moved here just about the same time as we did. She had a quilt shop there. We exchanged email addresses. Sometimes it pays to be a chatty person.

4. It's snowing.

5. Tomorrow I make my first week's cookies for Bub. He requested my oatmeal cookies. smileys/frown.gif

6. Here is our forecast:

... WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SUNDAY NIGHT...

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SUNDAY NIGHT.

* LOCATION... THIS WINTER STORM WARNING COVERS MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI INCLUDING THE CITIES OF TARKIO... BETHANY... ST. JOSEPH... AND MARYVILLE.

* TIMING... PERIODS OF LIGHT SNOW WILL BE OCCURRING TONIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY MORNING... AND SHOULD PICK UP IN INTENSITY BY MIDDAY ON SUNDAY. THE SNOW WILL DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS... SNOW AMOUNTS TONIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO BE ONLY AROUND AND INCH OR TWO. HOWEVER WITH THE HEAVIER SNOWFALL SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING... TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 8 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN SOME LOCATIONS.

* IMPACTS... ROADS WILL LIKELY BECOME SLICK AND HAZARDOUS WITH SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY NIGHT.

Yee Haw!!! smileys/smile.gif

 
It must be a universal spring cleaning kicking in.

I did the same thing. I stayed up last night washing all the shelves in the fridge. I swear it sparkles now. Your party food sounds great. Will you share the maple cookie recipe? Have fun!

 
My Weekend Six

1. DH made a wonderful spinach soup on Friday night. I enjoyed some of the leftovers for lunch on Saturday. He's great at cooking soups, my DH.

2. I vacuumed the entire house yesterday - even the basement. It took me forever, but it looks so much better here now. The air indoors smells cleaner.

3. We had dinner at in-laws yesterday. It was FIL's birthday, and the whole family was there. Ten adults, three kids, two labradors and a ton of food. Even for the dogs smileys/smile.gif

4. Like Dawn_MO we have gotten a lot of snow. It was actually so bad last night when we were to drive over to the in-laws that we packed extra clothes, water and a snow showel in the car. It's only a 15 minute drive, but the weather was really bad. Woke up this morning and read in the paper that 4000 cars needed rescue help yesterday. Thankfully, we made it there and home without much trouble (we had to back up to get enough speed to get through the snow a couple of times, but except from that, we got home fine).

5. I'm planning a cooking day today. I'm making chili for dinner, but in addition I'll cook up a couple of soups for dinner next week, bake dinner rolls and some chocolatemuffins.

6. We finally got a blue sky today. I can't wait to take the dogs out for a long walk.

 
Dawn, I completely agree about the value of being a friendly, chatty person...Yesterday, I was

on line at the supermarket. The woman in front of me had over 50 of the pint sized containers of ice cream. While waiting, I innocently asked about it...Teasing about how many kids, etc...

Come to find out they were on sale for $.49! Normally between $2.50 - $3.00 each! I immediately got out of line, and purchased some myself! Pomegrannite / blueberry, lemon / strawberry, cherry cheese cake, etc and the traditional chocolate, vanilla, etc....OH and some of the fun ones with candy in it!

I was soo excited. A fun and inexpensive way to try different varieties.....DID I MENTION $.49! It was for Turkey Hill, which is a nice brand!

All because I struck up a nice conversation in the supermarket line!

 
I'm going to have to stop looking at the checkout items on the rack and start

talking to people while in line!

 
Sunday Six

- Joe mentioned the Burger Bar cookbook by Hubert Keller.

- Took a peek inside it at Amazon.

- Why did I DO that???

- Do I really need another cookbook?????

- I must buy it!!!

- I'm weak.

 
Sure... Rec: Maple Cream Cookies

2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
1 large egg
1 Tbs maple extract

Beat butter and sugars together in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add egg and maple extract.

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl and add to egg mixture until just blended.

Divide dough in half; flatten each half into disk, wrap in plastic, and chill until firm enough to roll out (about an hour).

Preheat oven to 375°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and roll out disk on lightly floured work surface to 1/4 inch thick. Using a 2-inch cookie cutter dipped in flour, cut out cookies from dough.

Place cookies on prepared baking sheets, spacing one inch apart. Bake cookies until lightly browned, about 8-10 minutes. Opt on the shorter side as these cookies can get overdone quickly! Cool cookies on baking sheets at least 5 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar "snow" and serve.

Or, if desired, make sandwich cookies with caramel cream (beat 8 ounces of cream cheese until fluffy and gradually add 1/2 cup of jarred caramel ice cream sauce - beat well). You can probably make maple cream using maple syrup in place of the sauce, but I've never done that.

Frost with a dollop of creamed mixture, and top with another cookie. Store in single layer in airtight container for up to 5 days or freeze for up to a month.

Caramel (or other flavor) frosting is fine with these too.

 
My weekend plus Monday six (DH out of town Monday!)

1) DH started by asking me for a date on Friday night but weused a gift certificate I had to a place we hadn't been in years - it was WONDERFUL - he had stroganoff with a demi sour cream sauce and smoked paprika over orecchietti pasta. I had mahi mahi with parsley coulis, lemon thyme aioli, haricot vert, went vegetable beluga lentil ragout, and tasso ham grit croutons. I've got to try the tasso ham grit croutons - wonderful balance of crispy, creamy, salty pork goodness.

2) DH then rememered that Sat was our anniversary but we didn't do anything for that - friday night was our treat. So I cleaned on Saturday - still cleaning, doing the spring clean like the rest of you.

3) Today is the American Culinary Federation Gala so I am going to that with one of my classmates - he is from Mexico and dosn't have family here to go with him and hates going alone. DH could care less about going. We'll see if I get either of the scholarships this time - long story.

4) Hm - don't feel like buying anything new. I'm thinking those basic black sort of flair leg knit pants with the red sequin top that I had to have for Eastern Star officer installaion several years ago will do - sequin tops never change and I've only worn it that one time.

5) I've seen several cookbooks here (Burger Bar) and then was in the store the other day getting magazines for a coworker that has -4 mos. to live and saw ALL these cookbooks I am dying for. I'm thinking about a Kindle but none of the book readers is perfect yet and none of them have a full color screen and for things like cookbooks, you need that!!! Maybe I should continue to wait??? Anybody have one and have an opinion?

6) Tomorrow night - think it's time to go try another new restaurant since DH is out of town.

Also need to get some stuff cooked to take on the trip to Mississippi this coming weekend - most of my mom's family is in ill health and could use a hand with meals so I am thinking about what allI can cook and freeze or put in 'kits' for easy, no experience required meals.

 
Weekend Six?

* Friday we had our Gourmet Club Dinner (theme Persian. It was our 100th (over 29 years!)
* I made pomegranate soup with lamb shanks (not crazy for it)
* Bought pomegranate molasses at one of the local Mediteranean stores (love that-store and the pom-molasses)
* Finally made a successful Meyers Lemon Curd today (guessing I didn't cook it long enough last time which was why it was runny)
* Off to Berkeley in a bit to have E help daughter with her taxes
* Making fingerless gloves....(See photo below)

https://recipeswap.org/fun/wp-content/uploads/Finer_Kitchens/Luisa_Calif/fingerlessgloves1.jpg

 
My weekend six

Made the chocolate loaf. Thought I had chocolate chips but I didn't so it would have been better with. Tastes a lot like the chocolate breakfast muffins.

Decided to make my own boiled cider with a gallon of cider I picked up on end-of -season clearance for $1.50. Reduced a gallon to a pint. Now, what to do with it?

Made the nicest empanadas. I made picadillo combining several recipes I'd seen, then used the little Goya pastry circles. They are great for the pastry challenged such as I. Picadillo is very good.

Watched Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. I don't have kids so haven't seen it since I was little.

Napped.

Worked several cross-word puzzles.

 
Hmmm, I think I can do a "weekend". What's the worst that could happen?

1- Went with CB (child bride) to pick samples for the new walnut floor we're putting down in the living room. 15 years of dispeptic cats and an old cranky Lhasa have done things to the carpet AQC would condemn in a heart-beat.

2- Discovered a new Armenian bakery, right next to the flooring store. Displaying a complete lack of self-control, bought a half dozen sweet cheese puff pastries. May eat them all at once. (Is that a “bad” thing?)

3- After admitting defeat with a reluctant sourdough starter, threw everything but the kitchen sink into a 6 quart bowl, walked away. Naturally, it turned gorgeous, bubbly, soft as a baby’s colon. Perfect first rise. Perfect! Setting my best Roseville stoneware bowl on the corner of the counter to turn on the oven, the whole lot tipped over, shattering on the concrete floor. In denial of the difficulties the human digestive system might have processing shards of stoneware, embedded in dough, "just-too-good-to-throw-out", I shaped and baked. Resulted in two effing brilliant loaves with only a few “chunky” spots.

4- Realized the frozen duck confit had been in the freezer a millennium or two too long, turned it into a gumbo. Not my best idea but put enough andouille in anything . . . suffice to say, I had seconds.

5- Talked to the Mama about the Austro-Hungarian menu I’m cooking next month for her 80th birthday. She’s requested a few dishes from her childhood I can’t even pronounce, let alone cook. Anyone have a N. California source for “Zwetschkenknödel”?

6- Watched Lindsey Vonn barely win the bronze (after her hubristic comment to teammates: “Oh, I wish YOU were going to be on the podium WITH me.” ) We laughed and laughed, then fell asleep during the Skate-Dancing compulsories.

(phew, I only give myself a 3.4 on this first attempt)

 
Yes, frozen. I thought they were good and they were very easy to handle.

I think they have more than one kind, but these were the homestyle (caseres) Each one has a sheet of plastic behind it so that it can be lifted on to your work surface and doesn't stick. I used a two tablespoon coffee scoop to portion the filling then dipped my finger in water and ran it around the edge. You can use the plastic to help you make the original fold-over, the remove it and finish crimping.

 
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