She's no fool!

Mellow day in the morning with Edie, afternoon with Edie & D in from out of town. Out for dinner, home early, a good day. Baked round 2.5 of the Knish Experiments during Edie's nap.


TODAY'S COOKING:
Knishes: With the left over dough, made another round. Baked at 350 instead of 375 for 25 minutes instead of 20 -- even less color, tougher skin, not the way to go. Potato better with more onion (5lb p to 3lb cooked o). Spinach, not sure, upped the potato content and it might appeal to what people understand a spinach knish to be, but I think I might like it less. Cabbage is good, I upped the vinegar and it tastes more like kraut, in a good way -- a sweet spot between plain cooked cabbage and pickled vinegary kraut is what I'm looking for. With a few extra squares of dough, made a baked ziti knish (fail) and a chocolate knish (a lump of semisweet chocolate chips, good but needs work, different dough, different ratio, maybe some sort of element in the chocolate to make it more of a pastry cream.)

Edie Ice Cream Pops: Edie has pretty much been demanding "ice cream" after every single meal, breakfast, lunch and dinner ("SHE'S NO FOOL!!", I hear some of you shout.) I made a round of frozen treats last week, and supplemented the supply with some smoothie here and there, frozen to please. Today's round is identical to last time, but 1/2 the sugar. One can of coconut milk, half jar of 1-ingredient smooth peanut butter, 1 ripe banana, a healthy shot of vanilla extract, a dash of salt, and 1/4 cup of simple syrup (1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water, boiled until all sugar dissolved) -- all blended for a few minutes then put in 6 pop molds plus two 5-ounce Dixie cups.

BREAKFAST: 8am, organic cornflakes with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH pt 1: 12 noon, Mediterranean salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Made this yesterday, only tasted it to make sure it had enough salt (it did from the feta). I REALLY don't like this dish. The white beans are mealy, the feta is salty/crumbly in a fneh way, the red pepper adds too much moisture (should have done roasted veg), the dill is overpowering and plain, not challenged by any big secondary flavors. 

LUNCH pt 2: 1:15pm, potato, spinach, cabbage, ziti and chocolate knishes, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 7pm, weiner shnitzel, German potato salad, cucumber salad, 1 beer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Out to dinner with one of my oldest & best friends in from out of town to a local German joint.



EVENING SNACK: 9:15pm, whole wheat pretzels with nutella, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5