St. Patty's Day

St. Patrick's Day - enjoy!



I've had some trouble with putting links up onto this blog, so if you have a tech support issue, try this:

www.2stews.com/2010/03/guinness-irish-stew.html

Oh, and follow your dreams!!!

Donsta

Gettin' Ready For A Snowstorm

Well the big snowstorm the weather geeks are predicting is about to hit. I got my shovel ready, got food, batteries, activated a school & business closings feature on a local radio station so it will send me a TXT to my cellphone, and got a full tank o' gas in my truck. I got bread, milk & eggs, you know, the things that stores always run out of when a big storm is on the way. Like my big bag of Doritos, never go into a big storm without your fave foods. I'll set my alarm clock extra early so I can shovel my way out in the morning. So hopefully because I'm ready, the storm will not be so bad. We'll see...

Bread Machine Action

Yesterday I loaded ingredients into my bread-making machine, and then about 3 and 1/2 hours later - BREAD!




Hey, I geek like me will make bread using a microprocessor-controlled gadget like this. After all, we don't live on bread alone.








Bread flour mix, yeast, and water. Simple & easy. This is an Italian herb bread mix.

















First, water is put in at around 80 degrees Fahrenheit. That's around 27 degrees Celsius I believe. Second, bread flour mix on top of the water. Third, yeast on top of bread flour mix.


Then just start the engine.







This loaf came out great - filled up almost the whole chamber. Crusty on the outside, soft & delicious on the inside.
















DEEEE-LISH!!!




This was great. More bread machine mixes will follow. Plus I've found some websites with bread machine recipes.

Guide To Hamburger Styles

Here's some interesting reading for anyone into hamburgers & cheeseburgers. It's from http://aht.seriouseats.com/ which is the "A Hamburger Today" section of the SeriousEats website.

You know what they say, a hamburger a day...

Here's the article on hamburger & cheeseburger 'styles', of which there are many:

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2009/09/a-guide-to-glossary-of-regional-american-burger-cheeseburger-styles-and-cooking-methods.html?ref=se-bb2

Mmmmm, hamburgers....

Plus, now an article that tells me more about them.

Enjoy.

Have A Grand Day

Here is one of my favorite easy-to-make foods where you don't have to do any serious work.


GRANDS!!!

These are so simple to make and yet they taste pretty good.

Basically, you just pop open a can of these things and heat 'em in the oven.




Here's a batch gettin' ready for action.

Oh, and let's not forget the little Pillsbury dough dude. How could you NOT buy a can?

MMMMMM.

They taste pretty good for how little work you have to do.

Bread - made by human hands - hands that loaded stuff into a bread machine - "home baked"

HELLO ! ! !

Today I'm sharing pictures of my latest bread machine adventure. Honey Wheat bread. It came out great. Taste was very good, texture was also. The loaf came out a bit small, oh well. However, the taste was great.

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Water at the bottom of the pan, then the flour mix, then the yeast on top.

Whole Wheat cycle.

Sample with peanut butter & jelly - UUUMMMMM ! ! ! !

The box said Honey Wheat Berry was the flavor. I could not find any hint of any berries at all. They must have run out of berries when they packaged my box.