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Home Ec 101 : Notes on Cooking: Review & Giveaway

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:58 +0000

Little Squee.. *smile* Love the tip about the oat for nuts. Gotta try that now. Love oats.. don't like nuts IN desserts. :) My tip.. read an entire recipe before you start to prepare the dish. Now to blog..

Home Ec 101 : Sunday Confessional 10/25

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:09:03 +0000

Hi Stacy. My reply, here, turned into a post. They don't stay little, forever.. :) http://withaz.net/carolinadreamz/?p=818 ~Heidi

Home Ec 101 : Sunday Confessional 10/25

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:01 +0000

I love Tom Hanks. I love Baseball. I forgot about this line... because I'm a crier, too. :) (The "3 tissue email subject line" comes from being a crier of happy and sad.) My brain fog often puts me into a state of "blank brain." I just forget what I'm saying, where it was going, or why I mentioned it.. or side-tracked.. (I can be telling you a story.. see the story playing out, in my mind.. see a wall, and get stuck, unable to say the word "wall." I can't think of the word, itself.) Your friends, usually, know when its better to act like something never happened.. or change the subject to occupy your attention/time.. to avert the emotion.. when in public.. You have a lot on your plate.. and you keep running, like a locomotive.. I wish to have half your energy. ("I want some. Say yes! I want some. Say yes!" ;) ) (Or to just know where I put the memory card reader, that I didn't take to barcamp, would be good, right now.) I feel like I'm always playing catch-up. Or I'm always asking myself how something happened. or How did something "not happen" that I'm sure, I did do.. I call it mommy syndrome. But once a mommy, always a mommy. I find it easier to not cry by carrying around my tissue pack. I even pretty it up with fabric. Its a personal, tangible thing, that helps me. I'll give you one for Christmas, if you are a good little girl. :) Thanks for making me feel normal. :)

Home Ec 101 : Apology

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:05:19 +0000

We know you planned this and its all your fault. :P I love you, anyway. This is karma, btw, for not telling me my blog was auto-playing, couple weeks ago. Delete me now if you wish. :) (I didn't hear it.. )

Home Ec 101 : Refried Beans: Back to Basics

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:17:03 +0000

When I can find them (Remember my crappy BiLo's produce) I use Serrano's. At the end, I splash milk or cream or half in half as I mash.

Home Ec 101 : Giveaway Time: The Taste of Home Cookbook, Cooks who Care Edition

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:45:12 +0000

http://twitter.com/carolinadreamz/statuses/466045... ::big grin::

Home Ec 101 : Giveaway Time: The Taste of Home Cookbook, Cooks who Care Edition

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:17:39 +0000

My past Relationship with Taste of Home and how I'll share the book with you, if I win! :) http://bit.ly/29xTBA

Home Ec 101 : Giveaway Time: The Taste of Home Cookbook, Cooks who Care Edition

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:26:10 +0000

oh the dreams I've had, in Taste of Home, honor! :) IF this post wins this book. I will random generate a new winner for the book, after my grubby hands peruse it, for a day or two. :) The subscription.. well, you can have my first born child.. :P ~Heidi

Home Ec 101 : Chicken With Car

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:38 +0000

I love wooden spoonz. I've been trying to buy some new ones, for a few years now. I have some nice oak ones.. that can stand up to some work. But I can't really find the heavy work ones, lately. I'm turning the other cheek to the ones, at Walmart, with someone's name on them... but ooooh! (Most of the big ones have big handles.. that feel too wide and uncomfy in my hand..) I used to buy chicken leg quarters, years ago, in California, for $.19/lb, on sale. I'd buy 50 pounds and spend the entire weekend stewing them and de-boning them.. freezing them as shredded chicken, in meal-sized batches. This really took hours off of meal-time prep, each afternoon. I miss having all that meat ready-to-go! Maybe that's how I did it with all those little kids? :) (I guess I should add here that chicken really creeps me.. and if you'd de-bone it, I'd buy some, for us, both, and stew it, at your house, for both of us. :) I divorced my de-boner. ::giggle:: )

Home Ec 101 : Preheat or Not

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:59:12 +0000

Something I read, in Alton Brown's book, "I'm Just Here for the Food," that I had not considered before.. I, usually, wait for the oven to click off (the light to go off) to know the oven is hot enough.. but Alton says that is only the air temperature, and that recovery is long.. he suggests waiting 5 minutes, in one section, and 20 minutes, in another.. so the recovery, to the right temperature, after you open the door, is faster.. In my opinion, this could make or break a recipe.. and with bread.. it makes a difference, I'm learning. My buns cooked 3 minutes faster when I waited longer for the oven to pre-heat, today. :)

Home Ec 101 : Tomato Paste vs Crushed Tomatoes

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:11:31 +0000

Oh, I forgot to mention.. someone will need to give me a major amount of tomatoes for me to make my own paste. Maybe next summer, you and I can find a "pick your own?" I've given up growing them, for multiple reasons.. I, already, buy a lot of tomatoes.. and I've been trying to eat them all fresh, lately. I need to preserve more.

Home Ec 101 : Tomato Paste vs Crushed Tomatoes

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:08:49 +0000

My new spaghetti sauce recipe, to try, this week, calls for all three, sauce, paste, crushed tomatoes. Your timing is wonderful. Thanks for being so creative with your information. I <3 you. (That wasn't a secret, though, eh? ::giggle::)

Home Ec 101 : Tomato Paste vs Crushed Tomatoes

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:07:24 +0000

I did not know to read labels for citric acid. This, very well, may be why I'm having so many problems, of the head-ache type, with food. I feel like a Taurine defiicient fool, but 1000 mg of Taurine will stop, reverse, and prevent my MSG reactions. Its worth telling everyone! ~Heidi

Home Ec 101 : Sausage Pinwheels with Sausage Gravy for Fearless Friday #19

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:02:26 +0000

Yum. I've used floss to slice layered cakes, before.. Who would have thought it a kitchen "gadget?" :)

Home Ec 101 : Menu Monday 9/15

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:57:53 +0000

I've only had shrimp burgers, one time, at that restaurant on the Folly Pier. Yum. Tonight, we are having Chinese Pork Burgers on HM buns.. Hopefully. :) and Oriental Cole Slaw. I'd like to skip to the eat part, right now, though. Our menu, this week: http://fromthecheapseatz.blogspot.com/2009/09/men... (I'm too tired to go shorten it.. sorry!)

Home Ec 101 : Cinnamon Rolls

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:10:11 +0000

Can I come live in your kitchen? :)

Home Ec 101 : Egg Rolls with Sweet and Sour Sauce

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:37:14 +0000

I'm here for the ketchup. :) We make these, regularly, but I still buy my sweet/spicy sauce. Thanks for giving me a new sauce to try.. (btw, Whole Foods 365 Organic Ketchup, sans HFCS, has made me a bigger believer!) ~Heidi

Home Ec 101 : Collard Greens, Vegetarian Style

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:51:25 +0000

I need to learn more of these roasting things you do. I'm going to pick up some baking sheets and try it!