kitchen adventures
Feb. 25th, 2008 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanLast night Isaac and I made #15 Luscious Lemon Polenta Cake which is basically a lemon pound cake with cornmeal. It was not really so much "luscious" as "lousy." Really, it was like every comedian's routine about a kitchen disaster ever, rolled into one. LOL! Fortunately I hadn't hung my hopes on it too much, so I was able to laugh it off.
Note to self: When recipe includes things like separating eggs and "fold gently with a rubber spatula," do not attempt recipe beginning at 7pm on a Sunday.
The thing had pretty good flavor, but it came out with the edges/outside overcooked and dry, and the center fused into a solid mass with really awful, unappealing texture and "off" taste. I think I didn't beat the eggs enough, or I folded too vigorously, or who the heck knows what. It's hard to think when you have one kid repeatedly asking "Can we eat the cake yet?!" and the other standing naked in the middle of the kitchen howling because the noise of the electric mixer scared her. heh.
Anyway, on the plus side, I have a spiffy new nonstick loaf pan that I bought for this purpose, so now I can entertain myself by looking for other ways to use it.
In other food news -- have I mentioned Pie Day here yet? A coworker and I jointly decided (well, he claims it was my idea, I claim it was his) that March 14th, Pi Day, should be Pie Day at the office and we are encouraging everyone to make a pie and bring it in for everyone to enjoy. We set up a page on the internal wiki (well of course we did -- we're geeks, aren't we?!) for people to sign up and say what kind of pie they're going to bring. I tentatively signed up for Key Lime Pie, which really would be what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mofic calls Lime Pie In the Style Of Key Lime Pie. ;) I have never made a lime or key lime pie before, but mofic makes it sound pretty easy. I bought two graham-cracker crusts this weekend, and I'm planning to make it this weekend as a test run. whee!
Tonight is the first rehearsal for our chorus's spring concert. It will be the final concert for our beloved music director who is retiring after like 18 years, so everything is pretty fraught. But to stay on the food-based theme of this post, sopranos are supposed to bring snacks tonight which is part of why I had wanted to make the lemon cake; so now I'm snackless. I do have a bottle of juice I can bring and some plastic cups which are always in demand. I'm also in charge of setting up, managing, and then cleaning up the snack area for tonight; usually this other chick does it and I'm her faithful sidekick / right-hand woman / Girl Monday, but tonight she can't come so I have been deputized. Maybe that lets me off the hook for actually bringing something. But probably not. d'oh. ;)
Note to self: When recipe includes things like separating eggs and "fold gently with a rubber spatula," do not attempt recipe beginning at 7pm on a Sunday.
The thing had pretty good flavor, but it came out with the edges/outside overcooked and dry, and the center fused into a solid mass with really awful, unappealing texture and "off" taste. I think I didn't beat the eggs enough, or I folded too vigorously, or who the heck knows what. It's hard to think when you have one kid repeatedly asking "Can we eat the cake yet?!" and the other standing naked in the middle of the kitchen howling because the noise of the electric mixer scared her. heh.
Anyway, on the plus side, I have a spiffy new nonstick loaf pan that I bought for this purpose, so now I can entertain myself by looking for other ways to use it.
In other food news -- have I mentioned Pie Day here yet? A coworker and I jointly decided (well, he claims it was my idea, I claim it was his) that March 14th, Pi Day, should be Pie Day at the office and we are encouraging everyone to make a pie and bring it in for everyone to enjoy. We set up a page on the internal wiki (well of course we did -- we're geeks, aren't we?!) for people to sign up and say what kind of pie they're going to bring. I tentatively signed up for Key Lime Pie, which really would be what
mofic calls Lime Pie In the Style Of Key Lime Pie. ;) I have never made a lime or key lime pie before, but mofic makes it sound pretty easy. I bought two graham-cracker crusts this weekend, and I'm planning to make it this weekend as a test run. whee!Tonight is the first rehearsal for our chorus's spring concert. It will be the final concert for our beloved music director who is retiring after like 18 years, so everything is pretty fraught. But to stay on the food-based theme of this post, sopranos are supposed to bring snacks tonight which is part of why I had wanted to make the lemon cake; so now I'm snackless. I do have a bottle of juice I can bring and some plastic cups which are always in demand. I'm also in charge of setting up, managing, and then cleaning up the snack area for tonight; usually this other chick does it and I'm her faithful sidekick / right-hand woman / Girl Monday, but tonight she can't come so I have been deputized. Maybe that lets me off the hook for actually bringing something. But probably not. d'oh. ;)
