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Jan. 13th, 2024
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Finicky stuff in crafting and baking
Jan. 13th, 2024 07:23 pmSo, you thought flour sacks are easy? So did I. Until I started working on the inside of the mill for the songbook. For some reason I thought giving the flour sack a jute ribbon covering would be a good idea. I did that earlier for baskets, and it worked well. Only that earlier I had a jute ribbon with really small holes between the threads - this one had fairly big ones. I won't bore you with the details, let me just tell you this: securing every single thread end with two stitches took me half the morning. For a sack that was roughly 9cm by 6cm in size! Never again...
I also made a date and walnut bread because I was given half a pound of dried dates by Gaby when she last visited. Being the lazy git that I am, I found an idiot proof, very easy recipe on the WWW. By the description, I should have about 20 minutes of work with it - if I didn't have to chop the dratted dates first! They were dried, hard and sticky. Chopping them took me a good 50 minutes. Thank God I thought of it last night, or else there wouldn't have been any baking today. As it is, I finished with them at 1.30am. Brrrr!
But the cake is absolutely wonderful, especially considering that neither of us actually likes dates and that we aren't all that fond of walnuts, either. I still doubt that I'd make it ever again, unless I find chopped dates somewhere.
I also made celery salad today. Celery was on sale at Aldi, and I remembered that we made this salad in the convent, back in 1987 or so, which I quite liked. As a rule, I don't like celery, either (I generally don't like vegetables, period), but I thought I'd give it a try. Well, the salad turned out decent enough, but I didn't find it anywhere near as good as I remembered. Ah, well, not a big loss if I never make it again. Bad enough that we'll be eating it for another two days at least, and that despite the fact that I had chosen the smallest celery available. For the German speakers among us, it was Knollensellerie, not the green stalks.
Today was also laundry day, with all that it includes, so I'm well and truly dead on my feet.
I also made a date and walnut bread because I was given half a pound of dried dates by Gaby when she last visited. Being the lazy git that I am, I found an idiot proof, very easy recipe on the WWW. By the description, I should have about 20 minutes of work with it - if I didn't have to chop the dratted dates first! They were dried, hard and sticky. Chopping them took me a good 50 minutes. Thank God I thought of it last night, or else there wouldn't have been any baking today. As it is, I finished with them at 1.30am. Brrrr!
But the cake is absolutely wonderful, especially considering that neither of us actually likes dates and that we aren't all that fond of walnuts, either. I still doubt that I'd make it ever again, unless I find chopped dates somewhere.
I also made celery salad today. Celery was on sale at Aldi, and I remembered that we made this salad in the convent, back in 1987 or so, which I quite liked. As a rule, I don't like celery, either (I generally don't like vegetables, period), but I thought I'd give it a try. Well, the salad turned out decent enough, but I didn't find it anywhere near as good as I remembered. Ah, well, not a big loss if I never make it again. Bad enough that we'll be eating it for another two days at least, and that despite the fact that I had chosen the smallest celery available. For the German speakers among us, it was Knollensellerie, not the green stalks.
Today was also laundry day, with all that it includes, so I'm well and truly dead on my feet.
