MMM BAKING. Basic cooking questions.

[cjsmith]

I came home last night to discover that Rob, when tidying up to leave for the weekend, had tossed three perfectly good squishy brown bananas into the trash. Those are now in a big loaf of banana bread. (It turns out they weren't quite squishy enough yet, but they were fine after sufficient violence from me.)

Then I pulled out the Northern beans I was soaking for soup [original typo: soap] and tried to figure out what to do with them given that the local grocery store didn't have a ham bone. Seriously. They had ham hocks... SMOKED ones. Last time I substituted meat-that-had-had-something-done-to-it for meat in a recipe I was very sorry. So I turned that into a sort of Tuscan white bean and sausage soup. Do you have any idea how hard it is to concentrate on chopping up stuff for soup when the aroma of banana bread is taking over your brain?

Now I could start a yeast bread dough rising, and I should, soon, if I want fondue tonight, but I'm restin' my feet for a bit.

Time for a poll:

[Poll #1143214]

Comments

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Are you looking for chipotle in adobo? Because Safeway carries them, canned, in the Mexican section.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes I was, and my Safeway doesn't, grump!! Boy did I look, too!

There's another Safeway on my way to work, and I might pop in there for a look. I have another opportunity to spend time in the kitchen in two weeks.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

If you don't find it, let me know. I'll get it for you!!!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You are awesome! I'll probably find some, but now you're offering this AND ham hocks bones... ;-) I can't imagine you'd want to drive over here with a can of chipotle peppers in adobo, but if we had a free day at the same time, I'd so make you fondue in return for that kind of thing.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

You aren't *that* far away :). If it included lunch together, I'd think that was totally worth the drive :).