Cheddar Bread

This post is going to be almost all pictures. 

Today, I stress baked.

The recipe: 

from the Betty Crocker cook book. 

I used cheddar as the cheese.

after the yeast proofs 

all mixed up and resting.

kneaded and with the cheddar mixed in

ready to bake

out of the oven

delicious. 

We ate it all.

The Call of the Wild

By Jack London

85 pages

PDF

Read this for the first time yesterday.  A really fast read. Not quite my thing, but it's what my team decided to use as an anchor text for our Distance Learning unit. 

I'm glad the dogs didn't talk.

I found the phonetic accent of some characters darn near incomprehensible at some points.

I'm really curious to watch the movie.

Also, this is the 3rd time Blogger has crashed my phone. Now it's a pattern.

Apple Crumble

I literally have no idea where I got this recipe from. 

I used Gala apples for this, chopped really roughly. 

The margarine goes in with the stuff 3 lines down in the instruction part.

Used up the whipping cream we had hanging out in the fridge - half a little carton and not quite 1/4 cup of sugar.

Delicious. 

Calypso

By David Sedaris

259 pages

Hardback

It took me a long time to read this book. 

Reason 1: It's short stories, so it was easy to out down and not feel an urgent need to pick up again. 

Reason 2: Although the stories were interesting and funny, it's just not the genre I'm into right now.

It was our faculty book club book for March - a meeting which never happened. When it was time for our meeting, I was only about a quarter of the way through the book. Shocking. It took me over a month to read it! Crazy.

But it is very good, and very sad, and very funny. 

All the Stars and Teeth

By Adalyn Grace

328 pages

Hardback

Owlcrate 

A slow start but a good read. Main character needs to prove her control over her own magic and save her kingdom. 

The magics were interesting; as was the mermaid.

I like it when books have maps.

The story is contained to this book, with a satisfying ending. There is space left, however, for another book.

Baked Pasta

Today for dinner I wanted to make something a little different. Many years ago, when we visited my brother and sister-in-law, she made us this amazing baked macaroni. I loved it. I copied down the recipe.  

I made variations on it a couple of times, but my kids really just prefer plain pasta with some grated parmesan, so I haven't made up this recipe in years. But, time to have something a little different! 

I wrote Marie's name at the top, so I could remember who I got it from. Today when we were talking she said it was her step-dad's recipe. 

Step 1: cooking the onion.

Step 2: the sauce simmers. I didn't have any tomato juice, so I used a small can of tomato sauce instead. 

Step 3: cook pasta as sauce simmers.

How cute is this spoon rest?

Step 4: drain cooked pasta and add to sauce. This is rigatoni. That's what we had. 

The recipe called for long macaroni. I had to look that up. 

It looks like little tubes.

When it was time to cook the pasta, I actually called my sister-in-law. How much comes in a box of long macaroni? Will this one bag or rigatoni be the right amount?

It was perfect. 

Step 5: add cheese and mix it up! I probably used twice as much cheese as called for. I love cheese.

Step 6: put in baking dish. More cheese!

This part would have gone faster if I'd remembered to preheat the oven. I often forget that step.

*drools*

Step 7: eat too much pasta because it tastes so good. 

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I loved it. My youngest didn't like it. She's not a big fan of tomatoes. I kind of expected it. The rest of the family ate it.