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Sunday: what time is it?
Aug. 25th, 2019 10:11 amI went to bed early again, because I started having another monster headache. I would go to bed NOT jet lagged with that headache so staying up just seems ludicrous. I slept deeply and woke up completely disoriented at 10:30 pm. I did not realize I was at home, and while every hotel room I ever stay in any more has tons of light so I have no trouble finding things, my room at home is pretty fricking dark. So I was trying to figure out where my glasses were and where I could get some light and basically being a half awake idiot. Not good!
I was also starving. So I played my games, went and got a substantial snack and eventually went back to sleep.
At 5 or so, A. wanted to know when it would be morning. She thought I would tell her to go back to bed. Ha! No chance. I said just go play on your iPad if you want. Around 6, I got up and got breakfast, then fed her.
I have since walked to the bank to get cash, cooked a package of bacon (I fed her the last two strips from the previous package) and made two loaves of carrot bread. I stirred up a new jar of peanut butter and put some navy beans in to soak.
So the carrot bread was interesting. I had a full crock of sourdough starter, so I needed to do something. I pulled some out intending to try sourdough pancakes again, but overshot on how much flour I added and got a soft dough that seemed very scone-y. I went with it: added some spread, popped it into the toaster oven and ate the resulting lump with homemade strawberry jam and peanut butter. It was really good, but honestly, I should have stopped 2/3rds of the way through. That thing has some staying power.
I still had a lot of sourdough in the crock, however, and a package of baby carrots that I had to cut some suspicious parts off of. I looked at a lot of carrot cake recipes, but I really was not feeling it with the pineapple (never mind the standard frosting). Then I thought, okay, how about carrot bread, like banana bread or zucchini bread. I was not overtly happy (I felt like people were being way too timid about the amount of sourdough starter they were using in the batter, and going just bonkers with the sugar and fat) with what I was seeing there (somewhere in there someone was saying you had to grate the carrots with a box grater because if you used a food processor the result might be too wet and the cake would fall — that was not a loaf recipe tho).
Long story short, I went back to the sourdough zucchini recipe I used before, and just did a straight swap of veg, and adjusted the spicing (more ginger, basically). Turned out great, very savory, because not a ton of sugar.
I really do not understand why people throw away sourdough starter. There are so many amazing and wonderful things you can do with the stuff. It is like a living toy. Also, the two weeks it spent in the freezer (chest freezer, in the crock, fed before going in so it would have food while thawing) seems to have had essentially no impact on the starter. Which is unexpected, and very cool.
ETA: And I got the food processor out to grate the carrots because box grating baby carrots is basically removing chunks of one’s fingers voluntarily and I am not interested. Cleaning the food processor was not as bad as I remembered. This is the first time I have used it in years. Kind of fun, getting out all the kitchen equipment and doing fun things again.
I was also starving. So I played my games, went and got a substantial snack and eventually went back to sleep.
At 5 or so, A. wanted to know when it would be morning. She thought I would tell her to go back to bed. Ha! No chance. I said just go play on your iPad if you want. Around 6, I got up and got breakfast, then fed her.
I have since walked to the bank to get cash, cooked a package of bacon (I fed her the last two strips from the previous package) and made two loaves of carrot bread. I stirred up a new jar of peanut butter and put some navy beans in to soak.
So the carrot bread was interesting. I had a full crock of sourdough starter, so I needed to do something. I pulled some out intending to try sourdough pancakes again, but overshot on how much flour I added and got a soft dough that seemed very scone-y. I went with it: added some spread, popped it into the toaster oven and ate the resulting lump with homemade strawberry jam and peanut butter. It was really good, but honestly, I should have stopped 2/3rds of the way through. That thing has some staying power.
I still had a lot of sourdough in the crock, however, and a package of baby carrots that I had to cut some suspicious parts off of. I looked at a lot of carrot cake recipes, but I really was not feeling it with the pineapple (never mind the standard frosting). Then I thought, okay, how about carrot bread, like banana bread or zucchini bread. I was not overtly happy (I felt like people were being way too timid about the amount of sourdough starter they were using in the batter, and going just bonkers with the sugar and fat) with what I was seeing there (somewhere in there someone was saying you had to grate the carrots with a box grater because if you used a food processor the result might be too wet and the cake would fall — that was not a loaf recipe tho).
Long story short, I went back to the sourdough zucchini recipe I used before, and just did a straight swap of veg, and adjusted the spicing (more ginger, basically). Turned out great, very savory, because not a ton of sugar.
I really do not understand why people throw away sourdough starter. There are so many amazing and wonderful things you can do with the stuff. It is like a living toy. Also, the two weeks it spent in the freezer (chest freezer, in the crock, fed before going in so it would have food while thawing) seems to have had essentially no impact on the starter. Which is unexpected, and very cool.
ETA: And I got the food processor out to grate the carrots because box grating baby carrots is basically removing chunks of one’s fingers voluntarily and I am not interested. Cleaning the food processor was not as bad as I remembered. This is the first time I have used it in years. Kind of fun, getting out all the kitchen equipment and doing fun things again.