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in the uk they have certain days for certain meals ,,like friday is fish n chips and sunday is a full blown sunday dinner with roast beef yorkshire pudding potatoes and veg plus lashings of gravy ,,
so what days are your special meals ????

Pumpkins were marked down to $1 on Sunday so we picked a big one, sliced it into small pieces to refrigerate. Collecting the seeds and putting them in the oven to dry, I've got that for a snack tonight.
Making pumpkin bread is next on the list of baking projects this weekend.

I'm in rotation to work every third Saturday but this weekend, I had a client meeting on a jobsite and our draftsman took a few personal days off so I did some my own drawings.
Getting back home during daylight hours is a plus!

More trucks in the roadway as they continued to do a repair on the water mains that haunted the community this week.

In September, I did a blog about my experiments in baking... it was a big cornbread pastry with guava and cream cheese in the middle. The ingredients were fine, it's the way I ran a heavy layer of filling that made the loaf fall apart.

Not to have another failure, I bought a cupcake tray and a package of paper liners. My energy level is up... I'm psyched into making some cornbread guava and cream cheese cupcakes, mini version this time and I'll stir up batter (and not political trouble) to improve the success of this baking experiment.



I don't want THIS to happen again:

who can tell me where can i have best Mexican food in Florida.....

Forty Day Moussaka

A tasty dish to sustain a large family on a long wet sea voyage.

And God said unto Noah, take thee into the ark two extra sheep and a large oven proof dish, three cubits in length, two cubits in width, and about half a cubit in depth.

Make thee a shopping list, and send forth Mrs. Noah to the shops that she may assemble the ingredients to maketh a mighty dish of proportions sufficient to feed thee and thy kin for the duration of a lengthy deluge.

And Mrs. Noah took the list and brought back into the ark a multitude of ingredients; making three separate trips to the shops.

And God said unto Mrs. Noah, make thee a Moussaka, and this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of:

First, thou must mince the flesh of two lambs , which thou will put into a large heavy-based frying pan, along with onion, smote garlic, mint, bay leaf and cinnamon, whereupon thou must cook over a medium heat for ten minutes.

Next must thou stir in thy flour; then thy wine, tomatoes and tomato puree; simmer thee this mix for thirty minutes and set aside.

And Mrs. Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded her.

And God commanded that Mrs. Noah slice her Aubergines and fry them three minutes on each side, and afterwards to place them on kitchen paper to drain, and God saw that they were good.

And the Lord said unto Mrs. Noah, because I am a merciful God, I will not require that thou makest thy own bechamel sauce, but behold, I will furnish thee with one I made earlier, as bechamel sauce be verily beyond thy talents.

And God decreed that a third of the meat sauce be spooned into the three by two cubit dish, followed by a layer of sliced aubergine, and nicely topped off with the Lord’s own bechamel sauce.

For yet 35-45 minutes at gas mark 6 must thou bakest thy dish, forgetting not to sprinkle with fresh Parmesan.

Serve with freshly baked ciabatta, and olive oil for dipping.



Next week’s dish will be the Recipe for Lasagne according to St. Matthew.

My dad loved to cook. He also loved to watch TV while cooking. Unfortunately, the TV was in the living room and couldn't be viewed from the kitchen.
He would run back and forth trying to do both.
Let's say there was a chase scene on a Western that caught his attention... there would be a good chance the spaghetti would boil over or the broiled steaks would be crispy!

My first wife appropriately nicknamed him Burnie.

Walmart has bread, pies and pastry in the front of the store. Naturally, when you go shopping, you're most likely to buy 'things with lots of sugar' when they are displayed under your nose right from the start.

Cafeterias (like the ones in IKEA) are like that. Desserts at the front of the line.

I'm trying to hold back my intake of sugar, but 4 years ago I started with the those individual pies they sell for 50 cents each. The price hasn't change but I noticed there's much less fruit in the filling. Cherry, being my favorite and I only see 2 or 3 in a sea of red. I'm switching to apple as there appears to be more fruit and less filling in those pies.

I tried to use the character for cents, but the CS system couldn't handle it. Dollar and Euro work fine... but it makes no sense that cents is a problem.

I try to get to the Asian Market in Miami twice a month as they have products not found in the local markets. Tofu, for example comes in larger bricks and less expensive than anything in my neighborhood.
It was on sales and we got a few packages. If you have read my previous comments, I dislike Tofu. It has to be cooked with other foods or I will avoid it entirely.
Since we had so much, one package was stored in the freezer and when it was time to use it, thawed and drained. Also, it's a good idea to actually rinse it before cooking.
Here's what I have found. After freezing, the Tofu becomes spongy. When it's cooked with other foods, it readily absorbs the flavor of the other foods.
Sunday, it was Tofu with steak and mushrooms. If I didn't already know, I wouldn't have guessed it was Tofu and the flavor and texture changed. No more thinking Plaster of Paris was added to the recipe!

Once or twice a month, we used to go to an Asian market in Miami. A competitor with a much larger store opened about a mile from the first one. They have better selections and we started going there. Now that I'm more than 40 miles away, with no other reason to go to Miami, we skipped those hour-long trips each way.
Today we visited another store (by the same owner) in Fort Lauderdale. It's less distance but it takes longer driving through city streets and not highway like the Miami trip. The selections are the same and this trip we got a fish that looks like something of pre-historic origin that Jacques Cousteau would have brought up from the deep ocean floor.
Nearly 3 feet long like an eel, it was coiled up in the bag.

I'll know in an hour or so if it was worth the trip!