Thursday, May 25, 2006
Easy Bake
OK, confession time: I always wanted an Easy-Bake oven (and it seems like at one point I probably did have one; probably I baked two things in it and got bored, my usual pattern with toys).
However, since we got rid of the hideous electric stove/oven that came with the house (well, it's still outside waiting to be hauled to the dump... but at least it's not in the kitchen), I have gotten close. I have toaster/broiler oven - which is actually horrible for toast, but great for baking the small amounts of stuff we need baked (bread we bake in a bread machine). That's a mini-muffin pan in the picture.
Last night I had a craving for chocolate, and we happened to have some powdered baking chocolate, so I threw together some of that, some flour and rolled oats, suagar and margarine and vanilla and a touch of cinnamon and salt - and water, of course. I discovered while rooting through the spices some bourbon in an airline bottle and considered adding that for flavoring, but happily decided against it. I was aiming at drop cookies, but must have got carried away with the baking powder (I didn't measure anything, which was fun), and wound up with brownie/muffins instead. They were a bit ... boring when hot, but after they cooled down they actually tasted pretty good. Soon I will be able to throw a fresh egg into a spontaneous recipe like that :)
As may be apparent to the careful reader, I do in fact have this week (and probably next) off work. They assure me I will be 'slammed' with work after that. Aside from the whole not-getting-paid business, I'm pretty happy to have these beautiful spring days at home with the dogs, playing homemaker, hanging out with the hens, puttering a bit in the garden, and reading. Right now, though, I'm having way too much fun driving the colliething and the beagleXJRT nuts with the noises on the Easy-Bake oven site. Go there with the speakers on and move the mouse around - UNLESS you're at work! :)
OK, I'm off to sort out the kitchen cabinets. Maybe. I don't want to get TOO carried away with this homemaker thing.
¶ 11:17 AM 
OK, confession time: I always wanted an Easy-Bake oven (and it seems like at one point I probably did have one; probably I baked two things in it and got bored, my usual pattern with toys).
However, since we got rid of the hideous electric stove/oven that came with the house (well, it's still outside waiting to be hauled to the dump... but at least it's not in the kitchen), I have gotten close. I have toaster/broiler oven - which is actually horrible for toast, but great for baking the small amounts of stuff we need baked (bread we bake in a bread machine). That's a mini-muffin pan in the picture.Last night I had a craving for chocolate, and we happened to have some powdered baking chocolate, so I threw together some of that, some flour and rolled oats, suagar and margarine and vanilla and a touch of cinnamon and salt - and water, of course. I discovered while rooting through the spices some bourbon in an airline bottle and considered adding that for flavoring, but happily decided against it. I was aiming at drop cookies, but must have got carried away with the baking powder (I didn't measure anything, which was fun), and wound up with brownie/muffins instead. They were a bit ... boring when hot, but after they cooled down they actually tasted pretty good. Soon I will be able to throw a fresh egg into a spontaneous recipe like that :)
As may be apparent to the careful reader, I do in fact have this week (and probably next) off work. They assure me I will be 'slammed' with work after that. Aside from the whole not-getting-paid business, I'm pretty happy to have these beautiful spring days at home with the dogs, playing homemaker, hanging out with the hens, puttering a bit in the garden, and reading. Right now, though, I'm having way too much fun driving the colliething and the beagleXJRT nuts with the noises on the Easy-Bake oven site. Go there with the speakers on and move the mouse around - UNLESS you're at work! :)
OK, I'm off to sort out the kitchen cabinets. Maybe. I don't want to get TOO carried away with this homemaker thing.
¶ 11:17 AM
