What are you cooking or baking today?

Dave03 said:
I wouldn't know. I don't fool with the stuff.

My SIL has MS, so she has several different strains. Some for pain, some for sleep, etc.

I couldn't tell you which is which, though. All I know is my wife puts the doses in little glass bowls, one bowl per batch.

She has this one that's just oil, and she gets a drop on her tongue. I don't know what that one is for.

A far cry from my late teens and early 20s, when there were two kinds of pot: with or without seeds.
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Thats nice of your wife to bake. I posted a cookie recipe for you in recipes. Its one of my favs. But then again most cookies are. :D
 
Back in post #2,012 I said I was cleaning out my freezer so I could pick up my side of beef. Right after finishing that & we picked up our side. The farmer we get our beef from was talked into using another processor by their Grandson who we bought a pig from back in the early spring. I wasn't real happy in the way the pig came out, but since I can't control who does the processing we went with the flow.

Before the cow was processed, we went to the shop & went over the cut sheet with them & thought any potential problems had been headed off. They had our phone number if there was any questions. We got no phone calls. So ... when we picked up our side the first thing I said to the man was that was an awful lot of ground beef. He said that is a good thing. :cautious:

We started to load the coolers in the truck & I found the whole beef tenderloin & checked it over. It was still in one piece & looked good. I kept thinking, I don't have a lot of whole cuts of pot roasts, steaks, etc. When we got home I started to make my list & I ended up with (108) 1# chubs of ground beef, less roasts, less steaks & everything was deboned when we asked for steaks to be gone in. I had 33# more ground beef with this smaller side which was 36# smaller than last years.

The cut sheet told them to cut the chuck section ALL into roasts. They questioned that & I said I did not want the BEST cuts & the rest turned into ground. They said there would be bone & some grisle in small end & I said I know & I want all roasts. Also, at no time were they to cut out the bones out of any roast or off the steak.

I always log the number of roast & their weights as they go into the freezer. I found out I was diffently short on the cuts, cut thinner & all weighed less than the should have. Now I know how I had more damm burger.

The next day we called & checked to see if the cutter would be in because we wanted to talk to him. He was so we drove back to show him the past sheets from the other processor & what I had logged from his work.

He said they''re inspected by the State of Ohio Ag & not the USDA, so they use different names for the cuts. First I heard of Ohio doing inspections & if they use different terms, them give all of your customers a sheet explaining this who only have uses USDA butchers. I told him none of the cuts you have us look like the USDA cuts, so does Ohio require you to cut the meat differently too. I wasn't being nasty, I wanted to know why the meat didn't look like what you find in the grocery or I've gotten from other processors.

I also wanted to know why I was short on roasts/steaks & had so much ground. He tried to tell me it was because I had the NY strip & rump turned into burger. I told him for the past 10 years, those have always gone into burger so I know how much that adds to ground. I asked why was my meat deboned & showed him pictures of meat without bone. He said there was bone in them. WTF, I'm not blind.

I also said I'm short on all of the chuck/arm roasts, sirloin, swiss & round steaks. He gave an excuse he could only get 2 swiss steaks & stopped talking. I said it was marked cut ALL on the primal cuts & not the BEST out of the primal cuts. He had no reply to the last question. At that point, I said thanks & walked away.

We told the lady we get the cow from what happened & that we weren't happy. I told her it wasn't her fault that the butcher did what he did. I hope they go back to the other processor next year & not these yahoos. If they don't switch, I will most likely pass on the beef for the first time in 20 years.

Now I have to figure out what to do with 108# of ground beef.

Thanks for letting me vent, folks!
 
Tonight, I'm marinating chicken strips in onion/soy sauce/water/black pepper. Tomorrow, I'll skewer the chicken strips. Then, they get dredged in flour/egg/fine breadcrumbs, before frying. Finish them off in the oven.

I'm taking them to my sister's on Saturday .. our early Xmas dinner with family.
 
Now that the first big party is past us and some 30 boxes of cookies have been shipped out to family and dear friends, I'm back to daily baking to replenish supplies for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the second big party next weekend.
 
StarSong said:
Now that the first big party is past us and some 30 boxes of cookies have been shipped out to family and dear friends, I'm back to daily baking to replenish supplies for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the second big party next weekend.
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@StarSong, you are a baking Beast! I couldn't keep up with you. I still have some bourbon balls to dip & another couple of batches of cookies to make for my round three.

Just FYI, the term beast comes from my one friend who complements someone that goes above & beyond what others are able to do.
 
Lilac said:
@StarSong, you are a baking Beast! I couldn't keep up with you. I still have some bourbon balls to dip & another couple of batches of cookies to make for my round three.

Just FYI, the term beast comes from my one friend who complements someone that goes above & beyond what others are able to do.
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I love to bake and would do so much more often but alas, no more children at home and most of my friends/family watch what they eat most of the year (as do DH & I). Thanksgiving to New Years is my big baking hurrah! I make roughly 5000 cookies during that period.

The happy phone calls and texts are coming in now, with friends and family saying, "Yay, your cookies just arrived! Thank you, thank you!" Keeping connected with people we care about makes the work and expense more than worth it.

DH is my angel. He does emergency store runs (without an eyeroll or moment of complaint) when I unexpectedly run out of an ingredient, often clears the sink that I keep filling up, tastes cookies when my taste buds are blunted, and runs packing and shipping. I write the cards out, and tell him what goes into each box, but he packs everything carefully with bubble wrap so nary a cookie is broken, then takes the boxes to the post office.

Like most of our big projects, Christmas cookies and Christmas parties are a team effort. Even pizza making is. I make the dough and stretch/dress the pizzas while he mans the oven.

You may have noticed I never disparage or complain about him, nor would I make jokes at his expense. We're married 44 years and I'm grateful every day to have hooked my life with his.
 
StarSong said:
I love to bake and would do so much more often but alas, no more children at home and most of my friends/family watch what they eat most of the year (as do DH & I). Thanksgiving to New Years is my big baking hurrah! I make roughly 5000 cookies during that period.

The happy phone calls and texts are coming in now, with friends and family saying, "Yay, your cookies just arrived! Thank you, thank you!" Keeping connected with people we care about makes the work and expense more than worth it.

DH is my angel. He does emergency store runs (without an eyeroll or moment of complaint) when I unexpectedly run out of an ingredient, often clears the sink that I keep filling up, tastes cookies when my taste buds are blunted, and runs packing and shipping. I write the cards out, and tell him what goes into each box, but he packs everything carefully with bubble wrap so nary a cookie is broken, then takes the boxes to the post office.

Like most of our big projects, Christmas cookies and Christmas parties are a team effort. Even pizza making is. I make the dough and stretch/dress the pizzas while he mans the oven.

You may have noticed I never disparage or complain about him, nor would I make jokes at his expense. We're married 44 years and I'm grateful every day to have hooked my life with his.
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It is so nice to hear about a happy marriage.
 
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