The morning time started out mild-mannered enough. First, I worked on my wearisome stitching, equally I e'er do. Yesterday's effort took me to the destination of February's heart.
There is exactly ane pump left to stitch, in addition to and then all the blocks for this ane volition live finished. I receive got roughly practiced ideas virtually how to laid it into a quilt, but that volition receive got to hold back for a while. Possibly, I'll accept it along for the complete when nosotros caput southward this winter.
There were roughly things I needed to accept out to the 5th wheel. Just then, I spied the puddle noodle I ordered. I had an persuasion virtually how to solve a work within the 5th wheel. I'd tried describing it to Mike, but he was skeptical of my design. Mainly, I think he was having problem envisioning it despite my (cough) perfectly clear description. So here's the problem: When nosotros become downwards the route inwards the 5th bike (and the truck camper too), the turntable inwards the microwave oven tin flame bounce off its track. Then, when y'all opened upwards the microwave door for the showtime time, the drinking glass turntable threatens to autumn out in addition to break.
So, I'd seen on Facebook where individual wedged a cut-off slice of puddle noodle to concord the turntable inwards place. (Smacks mitt to forehead.) What a nifty idea! She fifty-fifty got her puddle noodle at the Dollar Store. I couldn't notice ane there, but I was able to teach ane from Amazon, which our mailman had mercifully delivered the 24-hour interval before. (We expected roughly other trip to the post office.) So...going on...the puddle noodle was a nifty idea, but in addition to then I realized it wasn't going to move inwards our microwave because ours is also a combination convection oven alongside a wire shelf.
Thinking this through, I considered cutting the puddle noodle into 2 pieces, but in addition to then scrapped that persuasion because the bottom slice would necessarily pose upward pressure level on the shelf, pushing it out of its brackets. But in addition to then I had roughly other idea. And inwards a no-time-like-the-present moment, I decided to pose my persuasion into practice. Here's how it looks now:
And hither was my solution: I but cutting a slot inwards the bottom one-half therefore it would jibe over the wire shelf. Also, I had to cut back off the sides because it was likewise thick to jibe betwixt the wires.
So, this is exactly a prototype. I wanted to run into if it would move at all. I exclusively used ix inches of the 55-inch puddle noodle, in addition to therefore I receive got plenty to brand roughly other one, a footling tidier this time. My epitome looks equally if I chewed the sides off alongside my teeth...which, to live clear, I did not.
I'll brand ane for the truck camper likewise since it has the identical combination microwave/convection oven. Also, I desire y'all to notice the showtime motion painting above. See the label higher upwards the oven cavity? It's because nosotros quondam people tin flame never recall the steps for using the convection oven from ane usage to the next. It isn't peculiarly user friendly, in addition to therefore Mike added the label. Now nosotros don't receive got to exit the education manual every time.
When I came dorsum inwards the house, I establish Sadie sitting on the bottom stride alongside her favorite footling plastic rat toy. She kills it several times a day. Fortunately, she does non endeavor to consume it.
And here's the thing...once I teach into a no-time-like-the-present mood, I start checking lots of things off the list. And that meant I decided to examine making apple tree fritters from a recipe I establish recently. I've e'er wanted to examine this, but y'all know...deep frying. The agency to aid teach over an aversion to deep frying anything is to utilization a Dutch oven. The tall sides of the Dutch oven cutting downwards on the splatter significantly. These exclusively used a one-half inch of fossil oil inwards the bottom of the Dutch oven, in addition to therefore at that spot was no splatter at all. When I was finished, I had apple tree fritters for two.
I made exactly a one-half recipe, which I'll portion alongside y'all here. They actually weren't really difficult to make, but they are best eaten correct out of the fryer. We had 2 for breakfast this morning, which I toasted lightly to crisp them up. They weren't equally practiced afterward sitting overnight, fifty-fifty alongside the toasting. Here's the recipe adapted from America's Test Kitchens:
Cast Iron Apple Fritters for Two
adapted from America's Test Kitchens
Recipe may live doubled
Ingredients:
1 Granny Smith apple tree (6 1/2 ounces), peeled, cored, halved, in addition to cutting into 1/4-inch pieces
1 loving cup (5 ounces) all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon dry reason cinnamon, divided
1/4 teaspoon dry reason nutmeg, divided
1/2 loving cup apple tree cider, divided
1 large egg
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted in addition to cooled
iv cups peanut or vegetable oil, for frying
1 cups confectioners' saccharide for the glaze
Directions:
Spread apples inwards unmarried layer on newspaper towel–lined baking sail in addition to thoroughly pat dry out alongside newspaper towels.
Whisk flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, in addition to 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg together inwards large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk 1/4 loving cup summation 2 tablespoons cider, egg, in addition to melted butter together until smooth. Add apples to flour mixture in addition to toss to combine, in addition to then stir inwards cider mixture until incorporated.
Set wire rack inwards rimmed baking sail in addition to occupation alongside triple layer of newspaper towels. Add fossil oil to Dutch oven until it measures virtually 1/2 inch deep in addition to oestrus over medium oestrus to 325 degrees.
Using greased 1/3 loving cup dry out touchstone cup, carefully scoop out in addition to drib v heaping mounds of batter into oil. Press batter lightly alongside dorsum of spoon to flatten. Fry until deep golden brown, iv to v minutes, flipping fritters halfway through frying. Adjust burner, if necessary, to hold fossil oil temperature betwixt 300 in addition to 325 degrees. Transfer fritters to prepared rack. (Fritters tin flame live kept warm inwards a 200°F. oven for upwards to thirty minutes.) Return fossil oil to 325 degrees in addition to repeat alongside remaining batter. (Only ane fritter was left at this point, in addition to it burned rather rapidly inwards the hot oil. In the future, I mightiness examine using a 1/2-cup stair out inwards lodge to utilization all the batter inwards ane batch.)
Whisk confectioners' sugar, remaining 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, remaining 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, in addition to remaining 2 tablespoons cider together inwards bowl until smooth. Drizzle 1 heaping tablespoon glaze over each fritter. Let glaze laid for 10 minutes earlier serving. (I had virtually twice equally much glaze equally I needed, in addition to therefore I mightiness examine halving this adjacent fourth dimension around. Also, the fossil oil tin flame live strained, saved, in addition to reused.)
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Okay, therefore it was afterward tiffin when I finally got to conduct house the Wine Country binding, but I've turned iii corners now.
With a minimum of procrastination, I should live able to complete it off today.
While I was doing all of that yesterday, I was also washing in addition to pressing the fabrics for my novel quilt project.
I had to launder the blues iii times to eliminate bleeding. The reds were washed twice. Now that I've eliminated the excess dye, I'm laid upwards to start cutting in addition to sewing. Hopefully, I'll teach started on that today, but finishing off Wine Country is my showtime priority.