CookSomeThing2019
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So briefly,
made SomeThing(s) which are not easily
categorized and/or labelled
at least by me,
so putting it up,
plus some FreeWriting on other stuff
going on...
Body
So had some flour to use up,
been around for a while, not the last i have
just that packaging,
so finish that, of unknown amounts
say 300-500 g flour
and Masa, which is a staple for me,
and 200-350 g finish that up too,
so knownish amounts
but what next?
had eggs (donated is Medium),
and using 3-4 of those
to match the amount of flour/ masa combination
and where to go from there?
had 1% milk, getting old
but hadn't made ice cream/ milk in a while,
but low on supplies for that, special m* sugar
too, so rationing, and planning, not something i'm
used to doing with food,
have it, do something with it,
and vegetables and stuff gets thrown out,
older carrots, darkish outside, but peel, and eat,
i'm not much on washing stuff,
requires special vegetable wash
and that was expensive last i checked,
and i don't have it,
brushes for potatoes, but not used yet,
and potatoes are piling up,
some sprouted in the bottom of the fridge and thrown out
washing stuff to eat not rinsing for the dishwasher and
get somewhat sterilized what way
(teen advertisement my mother washes dishes before the dishwasher,
what's the point of dishwasher?
well, gets big particles off,
and cleaner over all,
though mothers doing the dishes instead of kids/teens
and attitude misses the point of helping out in the kitchen
and being a good competent, helpful not bratty/bitchy kid
not that all are, but likely many are, and even with new
(to them) hormones, not a lot of sympathy/ very small violins only
holding a jug of water,
and questionable tap,
so might be safer just peeling it off,
and cutting off ends, bruises, holes, etc
the ceramic peeler putting away from the side
and takes getting used to, seems like handle is more
pull in towards you instead of a whittling stock type thing
(maybe more on that later, my first ceramic stuff)
So save the milk for an ice milk?
plan to do ice cream/milk/ sherbet
something dessertish sweet weekly?
as opposed to daily and/or more?
in summer time, now that it's officially fall...
and leaves down, pumpkin and other stuff
being sold/marketed heavily
Backlog of stuff on the last entry:
AldiBXRdsGrandOpening2019
photos and video up,
but put on gMaps
and a duplicate entry there of another
oerson(s) have the store at the building
mine on the street, and thier (sp?) address
since it's at the crossroads,
maybe has two addresses,
but that is the marketing pro stuff,
this is peer based,
and while both may have some validity,
seems like the other one is gone,
as even the Aldi.US website lists the address
as Columbia Bike 5725
though it is well off the street, back in the back
like a shopping mall subdivided, and up the hill
at a light and up road, then lots of parking
and from one direction outbound
first seeing behind Dunkin Donuts,
then KFC (closed early am when i went there),
started looking for it, online before even opened,
gMaps/ StreetView data was old and had BabysRUs
photos still up, which isn't the case, year+ old info,
so lots of problems with gDrug
and recently went to see about the other closed places
SafeWay mentioned across Col Pike,
HHGregg gone, now a pop up Halloween store,
and ShoppersFoodWareHouse in 7Corners
gone, and jsut saw that,
so the photos, are still up and google needs
to have an archiving and historical tab or something,
better editing capabilities, and reporting abuse/errors
allowing more than just a few options,
some freeform,
privacy, dangerous/ libel/ slander/ etc,
copyright/left (photos may be copyright,
add your CreativeCommons
Non Commercial Non Derivative
and google owns all of this because you Contributed?
to a multi billion dollar enterprise?
like Gates/ Benzos, etc need more money,
while searching for quarters to just do laundry
so can go out?
and been checking at night, when cooler
changes, and finishing closing up sometimes,
early am staff there, working on stuff,
even welding and didn't want any help/advice from me,
but cart return and getting a few quarters has happened,
leaving some at handicapped makes some sense
walking using the cart as a stabilizing may help,
but no stations of carts near the handicapped spaces,
and other places have U upsidedown
and some carts indoors, all have been double kid seat wide
that i've seen at multiple Aldi stores...
HillWood having more decorative bike stands
some hit by vehicles/ trucks
and already a repair problem
a few months in from that opening...
AlFromAlDiSaysNoPhotosOfMerch2019
time/date stamp on WebPage gives time frame(s)...
Anyways, cooking up some stuff,
flours/ masa end of packaging
adding eggs, but not wasting them
and not using milk,
so from all the Bread books
so far,
what to do?
Pancakes were a possibility, but used milk,
and not a complete mix where it's just add water,
had seen recently, some TV Cooking Shows
Saturday and then it was Sunday,
Pasta making and flour and 3 of 4 egg yolks,
but gets my hands icky,
so problems there too,
not a lot of surface area to do the kneading by hand,
machine is too strained to handle masa
by itself,
no large strong and expensive StandMixer in sight,
a food processor might be an option with the right attachment,
but not there yet...
So made some floury dough type thing
and using a Crofton ceramic skillet like thing
but high top, glass top with a hole for steam to get out
(think rice cooker)
and see in to what it's looking like,
but higher temps,
had to open some corn oil,
saved for donut deep frying /cooking
but out of the little bottle of olive oil,
so something so it would fryish
tortilla like
as masa part of it,
using wooden spatulas to mix it,
anything else not strong enough
and metal on ceramic surface another problem,
had seen spoon and spoon type making cookies
(tried with Bunny Tails, after Easter extra ~$0.25
once i got butter to make them, not bad,
but not done again yet either, and have several boxes
and 3 sticks of butter left...
though a growing list of other stuff calls for it)
shaping and tried something like that clean hands
options, not OCD but not patty cake mud pies either,
food safety/borne illnesses risks are bad enough,
why add to them?...
So never really done such sticky dough
pasta like but not wanting to roll it out,
handing to hand up and dry an issue too...
Going out, something get into them, insects
for instance, but not the only threats...
Pancakes can/do pour which is a nice feature,
as does fried dough, the sweet stuff,
but into oil, and i don't have an air fryer (yet?)
expensive and still trying to do laundry and
increasing costs, as early Sunday broke a wheel,
wondering why it was rubbing in the back, not out of true
but didn't really stop either, let the pads out some
micro adjust thumb screw wise,
but need to put on the AldiBikeMateBikeWorkStand2019
bike stand and take a good look
when i could deal with it, found a cracked rim,
near the edge, not dangerous as far as wheel collapsing
unlike the near bare front tire,
which got even abuse from an associate of the Amish cheese
guy, and someone else warned about threats,
missing Witness on PBS of Harrison Ford being sheltered
/ protecting an Amish witness, missed that,
lost in off hours sleep cycle/schedule...
Out of that and noticed a sale Flour and sugar combo
limit 4 (each?) eVIC at Harris Teeter across from Aldi
on Duke street Alexandria, so keep on eye out on that,
and partially why to use up older packages,
sugar getting low for ice cream/ice milk, etc sweetness
with CuisinArtIceCreamMachine2019
and follow on smaller 1.5 qt machines
with extra bowl, the last of the Aldi $40-> $20
ice and salt 4qt Nostalgia machines
seen only at one of the local (ish) Aldis......
Anyways, so incoming flour and sugar,
but slow to catch up on milk,
had/have some infant formula,
(more expensive than i would like
but what they have, only try one,
see hot it is: odd tasting for milk,
but will do in a pinch
evap milk and condensed (sweetened)
started to buy cheaply from Aldi
and discount isles,
even goat milk can,
but that was more expensive and bigger cans
save for when i am ready to learn and know the difference...)
the only dry milk stuff i really find
one large container from the warehouse
but not seen for a while, holidays short and
far between food supplies down,
kids back to school and slow to volunteer
donations down money tight getting kids to school
and seasonal rush, i guess...
So many tangents but not as much as the
AldiBXRdsGrandOpening2019
hot mess i haven't gone in to muck with yet,
if ever, still cooling down,
which has happened some, but
also still issues, to resolve like online
gMaps duplicate, etc
lots o typos, corrections, additions,
sectionalizing and spill over into all sorts of other
things like gDrug issues...
So turned down the heat,
steaming some more than just pan frying
tortilla like browned edges
as dough could move around in the oil bath
but sticking together,
some separate with spatula
but already getting that sticky
one for scooping out the stuff
a spoon/knife to scrape dough off that spatula
and a relatively clean and dry one
though some oil, helps with the sticklness (sp?)
on the cooking one,
weigh and measure while doing cooking like that
new stuff, trying to get numbers down,
say ~100 g each size
which is more biscuit size,
and came out high,
had some but running low on baking powder
but doing freeform/ freestyle not doing numbers
from someone (else's) recipe so ad libbing/
Sunday so some time for creativity,
though never really made bread from scratch
previously flatbread like
Consistency, later i compare with crackers,
some biscuit English muffin like characteristics
if i made them more shaped in a circle
instead of mud pies or some think PlayDough
cooked dough
one show had use up the extra pie crust by cooking
the pieces left over, then jam/ spread on it,
but don't have spreads, and not up to make them,
all the apples given recently but not up to crisp yet,
used to make, but requires actual baking skills
BadBaker2019
not up to that yet...
So made / yielded a couple of sets to save
as big amount of dough relatively to eating them
and finding saving some and when tired
and not wanting to cook
left overs are a good thing to have,
saves cooking into bigger batches and eating better
otherwise would...
Had started (out of time sequence)
old going bad onion first
and almost burning those but pondering what to do
while trying to cook down the onion
(called sweating them?)
But thinking
first pretzels
added mustard to the first ones,
and could pretend, if ignored the size
and not as chewy as that
onion bagels and
eventually just dumped some in the
small glass skillet
then added diced tomatoes cans piling up a bit,
beans and tried the new Pressure cooker later in the week,
more on that later, maybe...
Differences:
google's been getting the short story,
adding a link to this and the last page
might help too...
The full Gory Details, though not cleanly written..
Lying by incomplete a possible, on some limited
character count reviews, only really posslble with gDrug...
And i took some photos,
even video of yesterdays ice milk
see how much of a frozen ice block
that is, wondering what extras i could add to condition it,
ice crystal size is one thing in
HelloMyNameIsIceCreamByDanaCree2019
i caught some of,
water content, percentages, etc,
all good to know,
milk powder, and why mouth feel,
luckily i've been hungry enough that it hasn't mattered
and only for me, despite people listening in/overhearing
the cooking noises getting a bit gimme..
the loudish streaming music
playing to self sooth helped too...
but got some annoyed/ interrupted, even mid dayish
after out for pre dawn searching ,
exercise while cooler than the 94 degree high days
Original Text
take somewhere from intro into body here...
Modified Text
What's Missing?
What Can Be Found?
What Can Not Be Found?
How To Analyze?
Lenses
Assumptions
Creativity is good
Avoiding getting sick is a problem...
Not wasting food is a goal,
but also a risk, same old same old,
and having to buy because that's all i know
and/or have, can afford
enough to cook...
Time Limits
Veggies are spoiling
onions already have
Fruits too,
some trash stuff,
happening sometimes...
Fridge will hold the recently cooked stuff,
if properly contained...
Some dampness not a problem,
keeps from drying out,
though eventually will spoil/ mold?
Book Data
ISBN
Bound
CopyRight
Pages
index
Links
AldiBXRdsGrandOpening2019
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Tried repeating it yesterday,
with corn meal that was old, not masa,
more eggs, and older unknown like
flour, is it self rising?
so how much to add?
is it even flour?
or some alternative and likely wasted a gf alternative?
But more and something to try
to document amounts better,
and put up here, perhaps,
photos, video clips?
etc?...
Something to add to my list of semi skills,
making something like that...
and variations on what to do with it
pretzel like with mustard
pasta like with cooked onions plus diced tomatoes
biscuit like alone,
but butter and jam would be better, imnsho
as rather dry,not the flaky stuff one would want, more...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What creativity have you tried with food?
Baking?
FreeForm/without a recipe,
eyeballing something as delicate baking?
ratios enough to get the general idea?
if pound cake is a pound of flour,
pound of butter
pound? of milk?
and tablespoon of baking powder,
and making pasta similarly,
what ratios and ingredients do i/you need to learn?
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