For starters, I've added two new baking instruments to my collection that I have been using, using, using... A stock pot and a baking stone.
This has been used often for making one of my favorite comfort foods--chicken noodle soup.
The baking stone has been particularly useful for making things like pizza or recipes out of the cookbook Healthy Breads in Five Minutes a Day. Like the cinnamon raisin bagels and loaf of whole wheat bread pictured below.
Then there were the photos from projects like:
- my first attempt at homemade buckwheat noodles-very floral tasting and didn't really fall in love with the them. It was fun to make the noodles though! I will have to try my hand at "regular" pasta noodles sometime. Here is the dough getting to rest overnight so it could "bloom"
-my 2010 knitting project inventory -with two to many super secret unfinished projects to actually post
- the vanilla update when I added a third vanilla bean in an attempt to speed things up. And yes, it WOULD be easier to just add store bought vanilla to "finish" it, but I am getting stubborn that this batch of homemade vanilla extract will actually one day turn into vanilla extract. Next step with this project is to see if I can fish out the the beans and slice them lengthwise. Maybe if the insides of the beans can get out and mingle with the vodka... Photo from when I added the third bean on the fifth of Jan and today;
-the mini caramel sticky buns/cinnamon rolls (just enough for one) in my little Ikea "tartlet" baking dish. to give you an idea, the baking dish has somewhere in the neighborhood of a four inch diameter
