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

[labrat2.livejournal.com]

Are you in the Bay Area? I found there were a lot of good little stores in San Bruno (downtown). That's where I found inexpensive cardamom. Not sure I'm gonna find things like that here in Missoula. Maybe I should open a store :D

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm in the Bay Area, about forty minutes from San Bruno. There are also quite a few Indian grocery stores in southern Sunnyvale, along El Camino by Lawrence.

Wonder if it'd be worth *mailing* you some inexpensive cardamom!

[labrat2.livejournal.com]

LOL! Actually, I think I have enough to last me until the next century. I'm not using it very fast right now. Thanks for the offer though.

Ack! I used to live down there. I actually grew up in Los Altos but spent some time living in an apartment on El Camino by Lawrence. That was when I was working for a biotech company in Sunnyvale by the Central Expwy. Are you going to San Jose State? Or SCU? Or somewhere else? I can't remember.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Currently working at a startup right by Wolfe and Central. Not going to school anywhere yet, but looking to get a big pile of chem and bio any place that will let me in their classes. :)