And a coconut cake that crumbled, and a green salad with little tomatoes, that Jean brought. That’s what we ate with the neighbors tonight.
The lasagna had that pureed tomato sauce, that I make with my home-frozen tomatoes. Tuesday, I made a big batch with the last 4 bags of tomatoes from last summer (after I had ascertained that they did not taste like plastic). I left the tomatoes out to thaw all day, but it was still like making tomato slushee in the Cuisinart when I pureed them. And kind of fun to see them melt and turn a deeper red as they cooked – I’m sure the addition of a can of tomato paste helped, too.
For the bread I used the King Arthur Flour long rise almost no knead baguette recipe, with part whole wheat. The last time I made this bread, the dough was a little too wet, and the bread wasn’t as crusty as I would have liked. I weighed the flour, both times, but I tried to be more careful with the water for this whole wheat batch. but the wheat flour threw things off I think, though – the dough was really heavy and stiff. And I didn’t let it rise as long as I should have – only an hour. So we got a pretty good crust, and a fine, tight, crumb – not much in the way of holes.
I don’t know what happened with the cake – it’s annoying me. I thought I was making this cake that I made last fall for a luau party – but it didn’t crumble like this in September. So I must’ve used a different recipe, but damned if I can remember which. Another thing to worry about – memory loss. I think it must be hormones.
