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Comments (19)While I was still working, one of my co-workers brought this to an office potluck. It was so, so good. She had already printed out the recipe, because she knew many of us would want it. Flan a la South American My most basic and most impressive dessert recipe is flan, the way I learned to make it as a child in South America: 1) Heat oven to 350, with roasting pan or Pyrex half-full of water inside for water bath. Line a flan mold (small Bundt pan is a good alternative) with caramelized sugar: place ~1/3 cup sugar in a saucepan (or if you have a flat-bottomed mold and a sturdy potholder just do it right in there), stir over medium heat until sugar melts and turns a dark amber color, then add ~1/4 cup water (carefully, the hot sugar will spatter) and stir until hardened sugar re-melts, then simmer for about ten minutes until thickened. Pour into mold, swirl around to cover sides as well as possible, although it doesn't have to reach all the way to the top. When cool, sugar will be sticky but still pliable, NOT entirely hardened or you'll never be able to unmold. 2) Combine: one can sweetened condensed milk; same can full of whole milk; four eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Beat until smooth. Pour into burnt-sugar-lined mold. Place in water bath in heated oven. 3) Bake 30-40 minutes. When done, custard will be set around edges and very jiggly in the center. Do NOT leave in longer than 40 minutes or flan will overcook and weep, and have a fried-egg taste around the edges. You have to take a leap of faith and remove the pan from the water bath after 40 minutes--as long as the custard doesn't actually splash when you jiggle, it's done and will be perfect when it cools. 4) Cool on a rack--do not refrigerate--until just barely lukewarm. Run a knife around the outside and inside edges of the flan to loosen. Unmold onto a dish with sides, let caramel syrup run down for a few minutes. Don't turn up your nose at the sweetened condensed milk. It makes the flan much tastier than one made with just plain eggs + milk/cream. This is the kind of dessert that makes people lose their minds. They never have to know one of the ingredients came out of a can if you don't tell them....See MoreNovember 2018, Week 3, We Are Thankful
Comments (19)Nancy, Is it possible that the dog lives somewhat nearby, but his family might be out of town for Thanksgiving and the dog escaped from his yard and came looking for company and attention? Regardless, I bet he is enjoying all the petting and loving attention from the grandkids. I bet y'all are having lots of fun. During the last week, we had the grandkids on Friday-Saturday-Sunday and then Tuesday-Wednesday-part of Thursday, so we had lots of fun together and now Tim and I have the weekend and next week to recover before they visit next weekend. Grandkids are a ton of fun, but somewhat tiring as well. Don't get me wrong---I love every second with them, but then I do need time to rest and recover afterwards. I wish I still had the same energy level as a 4 year old and a 9 year old, but I don't. Last week was a Grinch weekend planned just for the kids. First, I already had bought a Grinch storybook planned on the 2018 movie The Grinch, and it came with a board game. I had it stashed away so I could take it out and surprise them at the appropriate time. We went to a theater in Gainesville TX to see the movie, The Grinch, on Saturday afternoon. As a bonus, a costumed Grinch character was present in the theater lobby so the kids got to do a "meet and greet" with The Grinch and have their photo taken. They were so thrilled. He also walked through the theater a couple of times which thrilled all the kids....big ones and little ones alike. Later on, at home, we read the storybook and played The Grinch board game about a billion times. The next morning we went to IHOP for breakfast and we all ate something off their The Grinch menu, including hot cocoa with minty green whipped topping and little red hearts. This was a thrill for the kids, though the food was just typical IHOP food....but somehow I guess the pancakes are tastier when they are dyed green and have whipped cream and little red heart sprinkles on them. Over the next few days, we played that board game a lot. I'm all grinched out, and if I never eat at an IHOP again, I'm cool with that. (Grin....the things you'll do for your grandchildren! lol) I'm glad you and GDW are able to have the three with you right now. Hopefully the cats will come out of hiding. Jennifer, It sounds like y'all had fun and got a lot of shopping done. Had I not been so tired after most of a week spent with the grandkids, I might have gone to ON because I did think their sale prices sounded great. It was nice to sit at home and not go out and fight the crowds though. There's no real garden news from here either. I am keeping the amaryllis bulbs watered and they are growing, so hopefully we'll have some flowers by Christmas. With amaryllis you never know---sometimes that grow and bloom quickly, and sometimes much more slowly. So, I just hope for the best. One year they all bloomed after New Year's, but another year they bloomed around Thanksgiving. Some years they bloom in succession for weeks and weeks (I have six of them) and those are my favorite years. I start them about the same time every year, but there seems to be no consistency in how long it takes them to come into bloom in any given year. We got half the Christmas lights up on the house today, but a fire and very windy conditions prevented us from getting more work done. Everything here is so dry now since all the vegetation has frozen multiple times, and the cured fine vegetation catches fire quickly....and then the fire moves rapidly in the sort of wind we had today and will have again tomorrow. Would y'all believe our high temperature hit 79 degrees today? It actually felt pretty nice, but the strong wind made it feel cooler than you'd think 79 degrees would feel. Also, the relative humidity plunged down to 15%....hence the fire this afternoon. Tomorrow is supposed to be quite a bit windier, so we will stick close to home and try to get things done while understanding, rationally, that fires are likely and our Christmas decorating plans might get pushed out into the future. A little while ago the head of our local Fire Association sent us all a reminder that one year ago today we were fighting a fast-moving, wind-driven 200-acre wildfire that was a major threat to one home in its pathway and was a more minor threat to a couple more homes. While we stopped the fire from forward advancement just a few yards from the home and barn that day, burning trees and logs kept rekindling in the strong winds over a period of several days and we kept having to go back out and extinguish hot spots. I was getting over the flu/bronchitis that week and being out in the smoke every day really was setting back my recovery. I was coughing my head off out there. It was a rough week. Tomorrow's weather will be virtually identical to what we had on that day last year, so we're all crossing our fingers and hoping for the best---we do not need a repeat of that day. I think I cooked food for the firefighters every day for several days in a row that week so I could feed them out there at the constant return trips to hit new hot spots that were flaring up. How odd is it that we get a total repeat of the weather 1 year and 1 day later if tomorrow's forecast is correct and verifies? Usually I take down the Thanksgiving decorations immediately after T-Day and put up the Christmas tree but I haven't done it yet, and I might not do it for another few days. I am tired, and I keep looking at all the pretty autumn decorations and thinking that I could be happy to keep looking at them for a while yet. Our big red oak out front has peaked and is declining, which makes me sad. I'd say that 85% of our trees are pretty much bare now, and I think a ton more leaves will come down tomorrow. There are still some big red oaks in the woods that are a brilliant red, so at least we still have that bit of autumn color. The bunny population is returning. I don't know if they are cycling up because the coyote population might be cycling down, or if it is just that coyote population has retreated to the nearby river bottom lands because deer hunters are out running around everywhere with guns, but for whatever reason, we've seen more rabbits in the last 2 or 3 days than we've had in months. Someone near us has had a guy with a Bobcat type tree cutter clearing cedar trees and fence lines for a couple of days now....and the noise from that thing is a tiny bit annoying. Mostly it upsets the dogs, who seem to think the constant banging and crashing of it hitting and taking down trees is a threat to them in some way. Thus, the dogs are not spending much time at all outdoors. I'm not complaining, though, because cleaning up the land, which is adjacent to ours, keeps all of us a bit safer if a fire breaks out. I hope they take out all the cedar trees as those things burn like torches. I cannot believe we are nearing the end of November. This month has flown by. Dawn...See MoreNovember 2020 Week 4
Comments (74)Haha, Larry! That sounds like me. . . not sure what I'm growing, but looks like plenty. The red mustard cracks me up. Just popped up here and there--in the original bed and out of the bed. I've been brining some pork lately. We're having a hard time finding loin and even tenderloin that's not tough. I've about decided to stick with pork shoulder roasts. Frankly, I think the taste is superior to the others. Happy second Thanksgiving. I was a bit worried about counter space, Amy. I measured carefully. But then I thought, "What can I get off these counters that doesn't need to be on them. Actually was room where the toaster and coffee pot are. The toaster will be gone anyway because of the toaster oven, . . And that's a corner of the counter space that had plenty of room where the toaster was. PLUS I moved some other stuff off the other counter space next to the fridge and then on either side of the stove. I'm excited about the electricity we'll save--really, used the stove almost every day. And for two people--awfully big stove for just two people. I guess you know now I'll NEVER make it to a Vitamix. Or to a nice Kitchenaid mixer. Besides, those things would take up serious counter space, too. Do you like the piricicaba? How does the taste compare to heading types? I think I might like to try it, depending on your opinion. I'm a little jealous about all your greens, Larry and Amy, which I think is nuts, considering I'm not that crazy about greens. But with the new scare with romaine, I can definitely see the appeal of growing one's own greens. And since I don't have any big plans for the garden, I guess I'll plant a bunch of greens. HJ. . . I would think Dispelling Wetiko would be perfect for Oregon! My kids in Mpls have talked about how much they love that area--and how beautiful much of Oregon is. I've only been on the coast, not inland. I got a chuckle about kolaches/klobasnek/sausage rolls this morning. I was all excited about trying them out, Danny, so was looking at recipes specifically with the crescent roll dough. It seemed to me they might be a little crispier fixed that way? Are they? One of the bakeries in town sells sausage rolls. We get the jalapeno sausage ones. BUT. I have kind of a love/hate relationship with them. I can't love the soft roll-like quality. I start out liking them (with mustard), and by the time I finish one, I decide I don't like them. I tried crisping one up in the skillet, and liked it much better. But found a really good-looking recipe--they used ground sausage and mixed it with cream cheese. I might experiment a bit. Why I chuckled was that when I got up this morning (slept in until 8:30), Garry had left me a note that he was on a trip to town for sausage rolls. He must have felt the vibe. Okay. . . to work!...See MoreNovember Week 1 2021 with Oct hangover
Comments (54)Kim, let me know how that works for you. We also got a lot of "french fry" sized sweet potatoes. I'm not a fan of sweet potato fries, but Tom likes them a lot. I mentioned to Rick that I should make all of those small ones into fries. Great minds...right? Larry, I've not done anything yet with my sweet potatoes. I won't this coming week, but will put them on the menu for the following week. Then, of course, the week after is Thanksgiving and I'll more-than-likely make a sweet potato casserole. We've so far dodged a frost or freeze. Moni, I've not started asparagus from seed, but they sprout all over my property. I think that's what is sprouting. They get pulled or mowed if they're out of their two raised beds, though. Danny, thanks for sharing your pictures. I love to hike but my feet are so messed up that I'm afraid to try much of a hike any longer. I don't know what else to do about my feet. I've been to a podiatrist and have inserts for my shoes and buy expensive, orthopedic type of shoes. Thank goodness those are somewhat attractive now-a-days. lol I'm not overweight, but am trying to lose a bit more. (I'm down to about 121 so it's harder to lose much more without extremes.) So, weight shouldn't be too much of a problem for my feet. Super frustrating, but we all have frustrations, I guess, right? Last night, Rick pruned all of his super hots and took half to his house to try to keep them alive over the winter. There's more in the greenhouse, though. I can't afford to heat a greenhouse so I'm pretty sure the peppers won't survive the winter in there. We have a "big trash" pick up coming to our house next week, so we're pulling out all the junk and sorting through it. Tom worked today and we have dinner plans with friends tonight, so we'll have to hustle to get it all to the "curb" by Monday. (We don't have curbs out here. lol) It's gonna feel good to get all that junk out of the shop. It will be good to be organized somewhat. We had it almost organized until the bathroom remodel. If we were in town, most of the stuff we're putting to the "curb" would probably be picked up by individuals. Once we get the junk out, I'll let Juno out of her enclosure and she will have the entire 1200 sq ft shop to roam around in at night. She's doing pretty well with her new arrangement. I bring her in during the evening and we cuddle and all. She's usually ready to go back to her spot around 10 or so. I brought the succulents indoors last night and put the citrus tree in the shop. We'll bring it to the house soon. I need help carrying the pot. Kim, the fig tree that you gave to me has grown, but just recently lost it's leaves. It has been up-potted. Do you think it should be brought inside? Do you think it died? I realize they probably lose their leaves in the fall. Personally....life is a lot right now. Jobs, friends, and we have some crisis in our extended family that really is just so sad and my heart is broken. All of this makes me feel like I should have done more, known more, been more. It really is hard to be everything to everyone. I feel like people are often disappointed that I can't be who they imagined me to be. Or are disappointed that I can't give them the attention and time that they need. It's a lot. Can't believe a new week starts tomorrow already! I was just having a cheerful lunch with my Mom on Sunday....and it's been nearly a week. Seems like a couple of days. Who knew that our lives would be turned upside down. Life was easier last Sunday....See MoreKim Reiss
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