December 2017, What's for Dinner ?

NormM wrote:The electricity is out in at least half of the kitchen. It is a revelation how late it is when the sun comes up enough to light the kitchen and how soon it gets dark.  We have a light switch in the dining room that is wonky. First it isn't a regular switch. It has a night light built in and it does not turn off unless you hit it extra hard or twice and the light it turns on has flickered lately.  I went to replace it but all the wires are black, not green, red and white.  So I decided to get an electrician to replace it. When I put the wires back in the switch and turned the breaker back on, all the electricity on that circuit was off including the microwave. Half the outlets in this room, the dining room lights and a lot of the kitchen are out and an electrician won't get here until Wed.  It has been out since Friday. We have been making sandwiches by the light of a lantern since then.  

NormM wrote:The switch that operates the garbage disposer needs replacing too.

NormM wrote:Have you pressed the reset button on the bottom of the disposer? It may just need that instead of replacing.

NormM wrote:Have you pressed the reset button on the bottom of the disposer? It may just need that instead of replacing.

bethk wrote:I decided to make a Lemon Cornmeal Cake today....I've made it numerous times before.  It's a bundt cake with a lemon-sugar glaze that gets crunchy as it dries on the cake.  We're going to a Patio Party tomorrow and I thought I'd take it and also, since it is going to be cool, make a Krafty Crescent Lasagna.  It should go over really well since I got great reaction to my Cuban Picadillo Empanadas.  The neighbors seem to enjoy a savory bite at the Patio Parties.

bethk wrote:Well, crap, DOUBLE CRAP!

I am such an idiot!  You'd think, at my age, I wouldn't make stupid mistakes any longer.

I took my cake out of the oven, allowed it to sit for 10 minutes upright in the bundt pan and then carefully pushed around the edges to be sure it wouldn't stick when I removed it from the pan.  Then, upside down on the cooling rack and it came out perfectly ~ not a hole or any place stuck to the bundt pan.  Success!!!

I started to glaze it with the lemon-sugar and it was crusting up nicely.  

Now comes the STUPID MISTAKE:

You cannot move a warm cake, especially a fairly heavy bundt cake, from a cooling rack on to a cake plate without it catching on the rack and RIPPING THE ENTIRE THING APART.

Crap, crap, crap......

bethk wrote:Too cute!

(where's the snow????)

bethk wrote:Gee, Jimmy.....too bad you didn't let it braise long enough to get it tender.......


Hahahahahaha!  Applesauce to go with it?

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We went to a neighborhood Patio Party ~ it was a cool 57° but there was still a nice turnout.  Everyone brings something to share.  Most unusual tonight was a butternut squash/citrus hot soup.  I thought it was delicious but could tell from other's reactions it was shocking to them.  The lady who made it said she spiced it with cardamon and ginger.  

I ended up taking the Crafty Crescent Lasagna and I didn't have to bring any home.  That's the way I like it.  To keep it warm I placed it on a foil covered pizza stone on top of a wooden cutting board (so I could carry it).  It was still warm 2 1/2 hours sitting in the shade on a cool afternoon.  Neat trick if you don't want to have to figure out a plug for something.  

There were a lot of cookies and candy ~ when was the last time you had homemade peanut brittle?  Yum!

NormM wrote:Kitchen lights, microwave and garbage disposer and microwave are all back up. By the time they were fixed and I got caught up on errands, it was too late to do anything creative so I made steak and mashed potatoes and that was our dinner tonight.  First hot meal in almost a week.