People of the day Announcement

 Well hello everyone, today is Saturday, July 20. It is 6:23. I got a lot done today. I went to a support group, I finished reading a book, and I picked up some different groceries than usual from the grocery store. Just now I was reading through a cookbook and something interesting happened.  I saw a recipe for something called beer bread, which just has four ingredients: a can of beer, 3 cups of flour, some sugar, and butter. And then you bake it in a loaf pan.  And I think the beer is the magic ingredient because it must have a rising agent of some sort.  So I noticed that recipe because I found it interesting and possibly easy enough for me to try.  Then, later in the cookbook, there was a recipe for a “chocolate orange cake” where you buy one of those sara lee pound cakes, cut it into three layers, add marmalade to each layer, and then frost it with chocolate frosting.  That’s just genius.  Well here is the most interesting thing.  Both those recipes are from the same person.  Someone named Diane Alder.  Well that catapults that person to person of the day status instantly.

This cookbook is from Florida, one of those cookbooks from the 80s where everyone in a community submitted a recipe.  It is from a place called Cypress Creek.  Well it is a cool cookbook, and I found it on ebay a year or so ago.  These kinds of recipes are easier to use than internet recipes, and you see patterns that make you learn concepts to experiment with.  Like a lot of people in these cookbooks liked a sour cream-mayonnaise combo for casseroles and dips.  Another interesting recipe in this book was for a chicken with orange sauce, which is mostly orange juice plus flour, butter, mustard powder, cinnamon, and ginger.  Plus the chicken.  Well I think I will try that.

I might do some more blog posts this weekend because I feel like writing a lot, possibly because I read a book that must have gotten my brain working a little bit extra. So what have we learned, try to read a little bit more and restart a cooking habit.

Ravneet do you want to host a pot luck supper.  Ravneet said yes she does.  Ok.  Now I am going to read another book called Making Enemies by Evelin Lindner.