There are still a distressingly large amount of apples left in the box. *SIGH* Next, I think, will be an apple butter with cranberry, ginger, and Chinese 5-spice. If the ginger-cranberry sauce is still good, of course.
I've been cleaning since, um, 9 am or so this morning. The last couple of hours have involved me peeling, coring, and cutting apples with The Violator, via Darling Nikki. I have something like 7 trays of apple slices drying, one crock-pot full of apple butter-to-be (amaretto, creme de cacoa, cinnamon, ginger, orange, and a wee bit of vanilla).
There are still a distressingly large amount of apples left in the box. *SIGH* Next, I think, will be an apple butter with cranberry, ginger, and Chinese 5-spice. If the ginger-cranberry sauce is still good, of course.
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Yesterday and today have been filled with cooking in preparation for Greg's upcoming birthday (this Friday; he'll be 37). There's been some laundry and ad-hoc cleaning in there, too, but accomplishments (mostly yesterday's) have included:
- cut up and roasted veggies for polenta - roasted & mashed butternut squash for a) souffle and b) Peabody - roasted peppers for soup - made a vegetarian white lasagna with Greg's homemade alfredo sauce (which is unbelievably good, especially when one takes into account the fact that he can't taste it) - a couple of loads of laundry (time to put some more in and fold the stuff on the line) - defrosted whey and have started simmering it down for gjetost - packed the sauerkraut to let it continue to ferment The soup (and stock) has gotten a little derailed by me cleaning the everloving bejeezus out of the cooktop--or, at least, trying to. Note to self: when making baking soda soft scrub, dishwashing soap completely pales in comparison to Dr. Bronner's. Oh, crap. That reminds me--I zapped some lemon slices in water in the microwave to soften all the gunk up, preparatory to cleaning it. Then, of course, I wound up getting distracted (by the neurotic greyhound staying with us for a few days) and totally forgot about it. *sigh* Back to zapping, methinks. Today: making lacto-fermented sauerkraut--cabbage, leftover whey, salt, and caraway seeds. Me trying to smoosh the cabbage in a bowl with a meat hammer is turning out to be one of those not-so-easy propositions. *sigh*
Yesterday, shopping with Greg, I noticed there were flower and veggie seeds on display in some of the stores. Cue an immediate jonesing for summer. Ah well--it's already late February. May will be here before I know it. In the meantime, I do have some flowers that need repotting (into a brass bin that needs polishing, first), herbs that probably need watering, and a blooming paperwhite. The other is resistant, for some reason. |