Eating & Cooking & Baking

I eat almost all my meals at home, home cooking & baking, so constant kitchen cleaning and grocery shopping are just a huge part of life. The exploration of new things foodish is a great love. 

My very latest cake, new to me anyway, was a Classic Hummingbird Cake, which my wife loved. I think it is basically banana bread with crushed pineapple baked into it, plus a cream cheese frosting. My wife claimed that she couldn't taste the significant amount of pineapple, but agreed it was more moist than the banana bread that I've made in the past. I used my springform cake pans and learned about using parchment paper on the bottom. It was a bit tricky getting the parchment paper into place and closing the wall ring around the bottom, but I figured out a sneaky way of placing the bottom of the springform pan on a small saucer, which being elevated a little allowed me to get the wall ring into place much easier with a flatter piece of trapped parchment paper, then used shears to take off the excess parchment paper.

In the last few months I just got started with sous vide and love it. I’ve made pumpkin bread for a long time, and my friends & family love it - especially my older dog Pepper.

Lasagna and spaghetti happen about once a month, and burgers from ground bison & pork sausage that are my favorite, happen 2-3 times during a month.

Meat smoking started in this last year which I like but it’s a wood pellet device and it doesn’t control temperature very well.

One of my latest discoveries is duck fat by FatWorks. The town of Portland, Maine has two places that sell French fries made with duck fat, as well as other items. So I have started making my own duck fat fries, too. I know no one personally in the state of Maine, but at least we have french fries in common.

Life is Wonderful

Max-I-Can Food

Ouch. Much. Tummyrumbly. 3 AM. Perhaps the results of Max-I-Can food (?) Actually it was Max-I-Can Tex Mexican food (!) Well, I was compensating for a no lunch munch situation. Perhaps its listening to too much irrational international news while I snooze (?) On a positive note, congratulations to all the happy couples who just got married in a massive ceremony in Peru for only $10. Hope your marriages are as wonderful as ours, as we are just a few days away from 29 years (!)

Hah! I just heard on the teleBision that a woman had called 911 because she had ate too much! When the emergency people showed up, she was arrested for improper use of the emergency service. I promise not to call 911, I will just go ahead and die instead, -boip-, eX-squeeze me. Oh, bother, now the news has switched to the North Korean funeral. I feel I ate enough for their entire country of 24 million people. On a positive note I have checked my smoke detector recently.

Hold it, the smoke detector sentence was just a response to another completely separate news story not tied to my food situation.

I am really confused now - somebody has a new teleBision show called 'Celebrity Wife Swap'. Someone sings, "What are you going to do with your wife?" to an old rock-n-roll twang. Gary Abuse-y is involved?!?!? ... Um, I thinks 'no thanks'.

New news story. Acid reflux.

I think I will attempt to fix this with a cookie and milk.

ANd less teleBision.

I also remembered that I also filled out a survey with the restaurant for a chance to win $1,000. The survey was eXtremely long, I deserve the thousand! My only complaint was the flour tortillas are too small. But now that I think about it they are the size of the tortilla containers that they bring to the table, so getting larger tortillas would require larger containers as well. So there is a very slim possibility that I could win a big cash prize! There is a much slimmer possibility that I am slimmer than 24 hours ago.