Stewart Creations

The guy who is buying the motorcycle from my Darling is a nurse and even showed up in scrubs. He shops online for them at places like Marcus nurses uniforms.
I verbally gave his wife the blender pie recipe and told her I would post it and if she googled blender lemon pie she’d find it. I played around with the blender lemon pie recipe last night and poured the lemon mix from the blender onto a yellow cake mix that was poured into a bundt pan.
The results were mixed. While being delicious, it was an ugly thing when I inverted it out of the pan. The lemon pie did not stay on the top of the mix, but, rather predictably, lay in the bottom. That left pie on the top when I inverted it, which was not as pretty as it should have been. Don’t know what I’ll try next, it’s going to take a while to eat this one and work off the calories, so experimenting will have to wait.

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Yoani Sanchez, with her book Havana Real and her blog GeneracionY.com has driven me to the fridge again. This time I thawed out the goat cheese stashed there for the delicacy of pasta salad with feta cheese and greek olives. I’m so ashamed. Not only am I endangering my diet, but by my not being able to do anything about the hunger of the Cubans I am fostering my own binge behavior.
I only took a few spoonfuls, but it is more cheese than she will get in a month, or maybe many months.
I am categorizing this entry with many food categories.

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My age group, my peer group, is having heart attacks already. Two of my friends who are my age or younger have had heart attacks in the last month. Both have resolved to change their lifestyle, and both are evolved enough people to do it. I hope I can make my diet better, get into the habit of eating more healthy fare and exercise more. Ajo has been a good influence on those aspects of living, and I can’t hardly wait to get back there when we are in Phoenix.
I think it’s going to be good for us.

berry bowl for Gwen

berry bowl for me

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double batch of bread, rising

Craving homemade bread.

I was having complete cravings for it, so I took my sourdough starter out of the fridge for a couple of days, (fed it) and made a double batch of rye/wholewheat.  I had been babysitting a friend’s cat for a week and she has a really great bookshelf, so I always read to her cat, Gabby, so she doesn’t get lonely.

We found a breadmakers book,  Breadwinners, published in the mid-seventies by a guy living on an island somewhere up in the NorthEast corner of New York, or close to.  Everybody in the book, dancers, publishers, writers, CEO’s, seemed to commute.  The author introduced the reader to all these interesting people and their recipes.  The author was a documentary film director and travelled the country, picking up recipes and bread buddies along the way.  It was a very good read.  You can’t really read something like that, though without wanting some homemade bread of your own.

When I get the author’s name I will post it, maybe tomorrow.

Mine turned out even tougher and heavier than usual, I think because it was hot and rainy, the dough rose really fast and tall, I punched it down an extra time because I carried it over to Gabby’s house to bake it and it fell a little.  It was too hot to bake in an oven if anyone was going to try to be home, so I used my friend’s empty house.  Also, I used mostly whole grain flours.  Next time I want to try sprouted grains, I have some grains that might sprout pretty well.

I have to say, though, that the taste is perfect.  I just toast it a lot, and it’s fine.  Crunchy.

high humidity, high heat

I can’t seem to get off my butt and finish the solar oven.  maybe today, hope springs eternal.

Rye bread, baked on a stone

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