And other Easter celebratory things, as much as can be expected from a non-religious person like me, whose last name is Shapiro.
So here’re more pictures of the Easter eggs I made with Jasper on Wednesday.
The method I read on Instagram for how to do the eggs said to use “medicine cups” for the vinegar. It took me a minute to figure that out – it’s the approximately 10ML cup on top of the cough syrup. About 2 tablespoons. My white vinegar is in a giant jug, so I poured some into an empty pint sour cream container and the from there poured about 2 tablespoons over each egg.
Today I made hot cross buns, based on Edd Kimber. I was thinking maybe adapting his recipe to American measures and with a few changes I like might qualify for my recipe-a-month for March, which is rapidly ticking away. But, they are not at all perfected yet. The recipe promised the softest hot cross buns ever. We haven’t eaten any of the buns yet but they don’t feel all that soft when I poke them. I think it’s either because I ran out of time to let them rise at room temp and bake before I had to go courier early voting ballots, so I set them in the fridge to rise, and seems like that might have retarded the rise too much. I also dumped the soaked dried fruit into the mixer and I thought that was bad for yeast-risen breads too – something about the way the beaters tear the fruit also retards the rise. I mean I just mixed the dough and fruit a little in the mixer and then kneaded the fruit in the rest of the way, but still. And I just used regular yeast not fast rise (like the recipe said) or instant. I dunno. We’ll see how they taste Easter morning.
I think when I’ve made hot cross buns before I used my cinnamon bun dough and added currants and citrus.
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Maybe I’ll have to do this beet salad for March. But I just did kale salad.
It’s a night of minor disasters. I made bangers and mash; brats and mashed potatoes and onion gravy, and set off the smoke alarm broiling the brats. I boiled them in beer and brought up one for me to drink, and spilled it. And the kitchen faucet water is just coming out a trickle so clean up is annoying. Mark kindly installed a new faucet for me last summer when the one I had became almost impossible to shut off. The new one has kind of a bell shaped end with a pull out sprayer and it just seems like the water goes in there and gets stuck.
I’m listening to REM and I got another beer. I think I’ll shower and get in pajamas now. Enough.