I made a commitment to bake a new bread every month for the 101 in 1001 project. I started in February with one I thought would be a huge hit for a Super Bowl party. Pretzel bread. Supposedly, this is a bread that was developed by the head bread baker for Daniel Boulud. The description of this bread toted it as little football shaped breads. Footballs? Ah ha! I go to a Super Bowl party every year. Not sure why I go since I really don’t like football, but I do like my friends and there is wine there so it’s all good.
I usually take a fat and cholesterol laden bean dip. It is yummy and people like it, but this time I thought I’d change it up a bit. I was going to make pretzel breads and gouda cheese fondue. It was all lackluster at best.
The breads were nice… the day I made them. However, I made them the day before the part (in essence of time) and by the second day they were already stale.
Would I make them again? Probably not. It was worth a try and I’m glad I gave it a shot.
The first weekend of my 101 in 1001 project I got to work. I resisted the urge to do 90% of it in one weekend. I would totally do that you know. That’s why I came up with stuff that would draw out the project the whole time frame.
The first major project I did probably wasn’t the smartest one to start with, but it was one of those things that if I didn’t do it soon I might go crazy and you would find me buried under a pile of juice boxes, old cookies and miscellaneous gluten free flours. That project would be clean my pantry.
My pantry isn’t the typical pantry. It is home to not only food, but linens, small appliances and random junk that I need to find a home for. In short it is the only storage spot I have for well… anything.
Last Thursday I set out to to clean the pantry in the name of taking an inventory of the food contents therein. I wanted to do so because of one of my Living Cookbook features. As I cleaned I quickly learned that the contents of my pantry are no where close to the list from Living Cookbook.
Needless to say I have a whole written page of pantry items that I have to enter into the computer, but I DO have a clean pantry. Now where the hell did I put the cookies? Question is… can it stay clean for the next 2.75 years?
This week’s update is brought to you by the letter Q and the number OU812.
Long time readers haven’t heard and intro like that in a while.
I couldn’t think of a better title and frankly this is a weekly wrap-up.
Monday we celebrated a household holiday. February 1st. We don’t do anything special. Mostly we acknowledge that January is now over and we can go about our “normal” lives.
Tuesday was fairly uneventful. I considered going grocery shopping, but later thought against it. I also contemplated the meaning of clean laundry and not turning my underpants inside out. That motion failed since I had to take the dog to the vet and had a meeting at work at 6:30. In other news, the dog now weighs 32 pounds and (except for the spay surgery) we don’t have to take her back until next year. That will save us some money.
Wednesday life pretty much fell apart. I found out that I will potentially lose the office I so painstakingly painted and did so with my own money. I loved my little office. I will now have to move to a bigger office that I will share with someone who might actually be there at the same time as me as opposed to my lovely little pretty office that I would have to share, but my co-worker wouldn’t be there at the same time. I’m very sad about it. I painted it with my own money. I had photos ordered for the walls. I had a beautiful chair for visitors. It was mine and I’ve waited 5 years for it. Now I will have to move to an office that is ugly green and yellow, I might have a desk that isn’t made for someone working on a laptop and a chair made out of naugahyde. Yes, it’s bigger, but I don’t want to move.
Wednesday also brought some other challenges, but I don’t want to go into that, I’m just trying to fix it. Let’s just say that it makes my losing my office problem very trivial.
Thursday the trusty husband and I spent the day fixing aforementioned problem. We also spent the afternoon constantly checking facebook for an update on our friend Jenny who went into labor at 2:00 a.m. You know me, I don’t get overly excited about babies (that whole I can’t have one thing), but I am quite excited about this one. Mainly because I know Jenny is so ready to be not pregnant anymore.
Today is all about candy. I have 5 slabs of caramels to make and 180 truffles to coat. I thought I was done with candy right about Christmas, but our China mission group at church did Sweet Hope for a fundraiser. I’ve whipped out about 600 truffles in 4 days (sans chocolate fridge).
Now did I meet my 5 mile walking goal as part of my 101 in 1001? Um yeah, no. I’ve been so tired from chocolate making that it didn’t work. I still have 2 days though…
