Unwritten posts...

Thought I'd kick off the new decade with a list of posts I intended to write in the new year, but somehow never got around to in the past months. (I've been "helping" my mom and sis get their new blogs up and running, and I realized my poor little blog has been sorely neglected.)

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