It was aggravating this morning then, when I went to try one of my first projects to not have all the ingredients. The butter has disappeared. So Easy Microwave Caramels are being put aside for now until I either find the butter or walk over to Food Depot for some. (BTW, the recipe that I was directed to on Pinterest at food.com isn't as comprehensive as the one at TasteofHome.com.)
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| The Vietnamese pickles. I should probably call my blog, The Tweaker. I had to tweak this recipe a little as I didn't (again) have all the ingredients. This one I had to double the "brine" recipe so I ran out of rice vinegar (I substituted a little bit of white distilled vinegar). I couldn't find a Daikon radish at Krogers so I used a rutabaga, and I totally forgot about the cucumbers so I used zucchini (from our garden!!!!) instead. So, the recipe is 1# of cucumber (or zucchini), 1# of carrots, 1# of Daikon radish (or rutabaga) which should be juliennized. The "brine" is 1 cup of rice vinegar, 2 TB sea salt, 1 cup of water, and I used 1/4 cup of Truvia (one because I wanted to try the Truvia rather than sugar and two, I don't like my food as sweet as the Vietnamese, so I cut the sweetness in half). I'm suppose to let this sit for 5 days (!). I doubt that will happen. And of course, I cannot find the lid to this jar.:-( |
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| Beginning the bread. It is 3 cups of all purpose flour, 1 3/4 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp (really?!) yeast, and 1 1/2 c of water. I'm to let it sit on my counter for 12-18 hours. More tomorrow. I'm hoping to cook it in the crockpot. |
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| I went to make my leave in hair conditioner/hair dye and re-read the ingredients list a bit more carefully. I'm suppose to have 1/2 cup of DRIED sage and 1/2 cup of DRIED rosemary leaves to 2 cups of water. (I thought it looked kinda light). So I went back outside to my bushes and harvested some more leaves. I don't know how long it will take them to dry - so another work in progress. (I did take what sage/rosemary tea I had previously brewed and mixed it with a bit of jojoba oil and have sectioned a piece of hair to see if my chemically dyed hair reacts funny with the natural stuff.) |
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| And I'm cooking the chickpeas in the crockpot. We purchased a three well crockpot last Christmas to help the girls with their apple project. So I thought I would put the chickpeas in one of the wells. I used four cups of water and 2 cups of chickpeas. These are for the Dilled Chickpeas. I hope to finish these this afternoon. I have a few pics from the gel resist tie dye shirts, but not finished products. So that post will have to wait until the girls get back from camp (unless, they didn't take them with them.) Just as a teaser, it did work and they were happy with the results. (Of course, there will need to be some tweaking.:o)) I have also been catching up with Etsy and figuring out how I'm going to begin my business. Stay tuned for more vacation news. |
