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Tuesday: kid still home sick
Sep. 20th, 2022 12:25 pmWe set alarms, tho, but she declined and we all went back to sleep. T. went to school tho.
I’ve been working on getting out of my head and into a Note (possible a post someday, or maybe something on the website, I don’t know) about how the way we eat these days has changed. That felt really good, and it helped me figure out some things that I had clearly been working on without telling myself what I was doing. Like, I bought three sieves (strainers? I don’t know. Fine mesh but with a handle), expensive Rosle ones, and while I was deciding what I wanted, I couldn’t figure out why I was doing it. I was pretty determined tho! When that happens, I just go with it, and there’s usually a reason that turns up fairly soon after. And indeed, one did!
Other than working through the King Arthur Special Patent that I bought during the pandemic, it is my intention to not really ever buy flour again — I’d rather grind my own, so I buy grain instead. I buy organic, non-irradiated so if I want to sprout I can do that (altho so far, I’ve only done that for the beer project, I would absolutely do that again for a variety of reasons because of the flavor change). But no matter how fine you set the grinder, there are little hard bits of bran, which causes problems with some kinds of bread. Apparently, the part of my brain that is not super communicative wanted sieves to try to filter that out. And a little googling tells me that people do in fact do that. Here’s hoping what I bought will work for that purpose. If not, I now know exactly what mesh to shop for to get what I want. I also found a bunch of options for what to do with the removed bran. I’m pretty excited about this, because it means I can try again to make less-dense bread, and I can also try to do things like make hamburger and hot dog bugs with some possibility the kids might actually like them. (Even if the sieves / strainers already ordered do not work for the flour, they should be fun to experiment with things like red sauce. I’ve gotten fast at making it from tomatoes, but it’s definitely not a puree.)
Today, I thought a little bit more about the parts of the Cook the Farm Delivery Food project that had not worked really well. I finally caved and ordered pectin. While I was doing that, I also bought mustard seed (the Fidibus should be able to handle that) and a gallon (!!!) of Marukan unseasoned organic rice wine vinegar. My favorite! And the glass bottles at the store are kinda tiny for using to make pickles.
I’m sure there are more things I will find that I need, but this should help with the major failures / not total successes of the last year (marmalade, strawberry jam, pickles that last).
I’ve been working on getting out of my head and into a Note (possible a post someday, or maybe something on the website, I don’t know) about how the way we eat these days has changed. That felt really good, and it helped me figure out some things that I had clearly been working on without telling myself what I was doing. Like, I bought three sieves (strainers? I don’t know. Fine mesh but with a handle), expensive Rosle ones, and while I was deciding what I wanted, I couldn’t figure out why I was doing it. I was pretty determined tho! When that happens, I just go with it, and there’s usually a reason that turns up fairly soon after. And indeed, one did!
Other than working through the King Arthur Special Patent that I bought during the pandemic, it is my intention to not really ever buy flour again — I’d rather grind my own, so I buy grain instead. I buy organic, non-irradiated so if I want to sprout I can do that (altho so far, I’ve only done that for the beer project, I would absolutely do that again for a variety of reasons because of the flavor change). But no matter how fine you set the grinder, there are little hard bits of bran, which causes problems with some kinds of bread. Apparently, the part of my brain that is not super communicative wanted sieves to try to filter that out. And a little googling tells me that people do in fact do that. Here’s hoping what I bought will work for that purpose. If not, I now know exactly what mesh to shop for to get what I want. I also found a bunch of options for what to do with the removed bran. I’m pretty excited about this, because it means I can try again to make less-dense bread, and I can also try to do things like make hamburger and hot dog bugs with some possibility the kids might actually like them. (Even if the sieves / strainers already ordered do not work for the flour, they should be fun to experiment with things like red sauce. I’ve gotten fast at making it from tomatoes, but it’s definitely not a puree.)
Today, I thought a little bit more about the parts of the Cook the Farm Delivery Food project that had not worked really well. I finally caved and ordered pectin. While I was doing that, I also bought mustard seed (the Fidibus should be able to handle that) and a gallon (!!!) of Marukan unseasoned organic rice wine vinegar. My favorite! And the glass bottles at the store are kinda tiny for using to make pickles.
I’m sure there are more things I will find that I need, but this should help with the major failures / not total successes of the last year (marmalade, strawberry jam, pickles that last).