Preparations for the baking frenzy
Nov. 10th, 2021 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartLast night I grounded half a kilogram almonds, hacked two hundred gram walnuts and a hundred gram peanuts. All by hand, as the oh-so practical electric hacker capitulated when it had to face the things. They always got under the blades, the blades got stuck and I was afraid the engine of the whole thing would burn out. There's a reason why I usually buy ground almonds, even it they most likely have other ingredients mixed under (or else they wouldn't be cheaper than whole ones, right?) It saves me a lot of hard work; but these had been in the freezer for a while (I probably bought them on sale in a moment of insanity) and needed to be used up.
In the morning I had the pleasure to hack 220 grams of dark chocolate to pieces, which caused the usual mess. Then I cooked the rice, as it needed to be already cooled for Mary Berry's Panang chicken fry, grated the zucchini, peeled and cubed the potatoes for the potato cream soup and made the salad. All this before our talkative chiropodist lady would arrive. Which turned out to be a good thing, as it made me so exhausted that I didn't care how slowly she worked and how much she talked, spending the whole session in some kind of haze.
But now all the necessary preparations have been finished. When I start the actual baking (probably during the weekend), everything will be ready, and I can make the first 5 sorts of cookies in one go.
In the morning I had the pleasure to hack 220 grams of dark chocolate to pieces, which caused the usual mess. Then I cooked the rice, as it needed to be already cooled for Mary Berry's Panang chicken fry, grated the zucchini, peeled and cubed the potatoes for the potato cream soup and made the salad. All this before our talkative chiropodist lady would arrive. Which turned out to be a good thing, as it made me so exhausted that I didn't care how slowly she worked and how much she talked, spending the whole session in some kind of haze.
But now all the necessary preparations have been finished. When I start the actual baking (probably during the weekend), everything will be ready, and I can make the first 5 sorts of cookies in one go.
