Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

This Week's Bread: Angel Biscuits

After 4 weeks and 24 cinnamon rolls later, I decided I needed a nice salty southern style biscuit. So I made Angel Biscuits.

They're kind of wierd looking because I need exactly five biscuits, and do'nt want to waste dough, so they're square and folded over, just to use it all at the exact amounts I need.

I hate being so techy with my food, but being diabetic and needing to know EXACTLY what's going into wht makes for food wierdness.

# Angel Biscuits

Fredericksburg Home Kitchen Cook Book

5.0 cups flour
0.75 cup shortening
1.0 tsp baking soda
2.0 tsp salt
3.0 tsp baking powder
3.0 tbsp sugar
2.25 tsp yeast
0.5 cup lukewarm water
2.0 cups buttermilk

1 - Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm water.
2 - Sift the dry ingredients together.
3 - Cut in shortening until mixed thoroughly.
4 - Add buttermilk and dissolved yeast.
5 - Work together with a large spoon until all the flour is moistened.
6 - Cover bowl and put in refridgerator.
7 - When ready to use take out as much dough as needed, roll 1/2 inch thick and cut.
8 - Bake at 400F on greased cookie sheet 12 minutes, or until browned.

Dough will keep for several weeks in refrigerator.

15 biscuits at ~37.5g carbohydrates each.
Calories 267
Fat 10g
Total Carbohydrate 36g
Protein 5g

Yields 72 biscuits normally

#thisweeksmeals #baking

If there's anything I took away from my time at Speakeasy and Tableau, it was the wekeend bagels we'd get....

And so ends the saga of Jenn's cinnamon rolls. They were tasty to the end....

One of these conversation hearts is the perfect representation of my heart. Can you guess which one?

Current Mood:

Testing the new tablet. It's got a few little issues I'll need to get used to.

I usually make ewach panel at 3300x3300, but this tablet is TOO sensitive and if I grow my pen size to get thicker lines, it "quivers," where the thickness is not even. I can probably compensate by dropping the resolution by half cause these lines are too thin.

The detail though and responsiveness? OFF THE FREAKING WALL. This is the first tablet that feels like I'm drawing with my old pens. I get that "scraggly" texture when I ink hair, the line thickness is varies enough to look good instead of like a coloring book.

The only think that kills me is that the tablet's only comfortable drawing angle directly puts my cieling light behind my head, making a halo all around the tablet.

But other than thgat, I'm very happy with this tablet. VERY happy.

@jeff

Ordered chips and queso and a burrito bowl with steak and rice and red sauce from Chipotle.

This is all I got. All of it. Not even touched yet. They didn't just miss items, they straight up missed half the bowl.

That's some real bullshit Chipotle. Uber refunded my money, but this is just straight up bullshit.

Playing with the tablet and it's pressure sensitivity after getting some extension cords....

@jeff

This tablet is gonna work juuuust fine.

LOOKIE LOOKIE. NEW TABLET. NEW TABLET.

(She said after two hours of struggling, but succeeding, to get it working in Linux)

Super thanks to @jeff who helped fund the majority of this. :)

Nothing I like more than a plate of Rye and Geds with Two Lagers.

It's nice to know that when the meat body fights me, the digital body simply is. #dysphoria #secondlife

This Week's Meals: Ekadasee Kotu Aloo Pakora

For something with a complicated name, it's a pretty plain meal. Basically deep fried plain potatoes. Sadly, I think this is a very barebones recipe, designed to give you the basic pakora, and you're expected to add extra spices to taste. Which I didn't do.

Salted deepfried potatoes. Not bad. Not terribly good, either. Maybe I'll go a little more crazy on the spices next time.

# Buckwheat Flour Potato Fritters (Ekadasee Kotu Aloo Pakora)

Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking

1.0 cup buckwheat flour
0.5 tbsp black pepper
0.5 tsp salt
0.25 cup cilantro (finely chopped)
1.25 cup water
3.0 whole russet potatoes (boiled for 10 minutes)
0.25 tsp baking powder
vegetable oil

1 - Combine the flour, pepper, salt and fresh herbs in a mixing bowl and mix well.
2 - Add most of water and, working with a whisk, beat into a smooth batter.
3 - Add the remaining water (you may need more or less than the stated amount) and continue whisking until the batter is the consistency of cream.
4 - Cover and set aside for at least 20 minutes.
5 - When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, peel and slice each one on the diagonal into 8 coins.
6 - Stir the batter, add the baking powder, and stir again.
7 - Pour ghee or vegetable oil to a depth of 2 inches (5 cm) in a deep-frying pan over moderate heat until it reaches 355°F (180°C) on a thermometer.
8 - Put a few slices of potato in the batter and cover them completely.
9 - One at a time, lower each slice of batter-coated potato into the hot oil. Fry as many slices as will float on the surface of the oil without touching.
10 - Maintaining the oil at between 345°-355°F (173°-180°C), fry on both sides, using a fork to turn the fritters, until reddish-gray and crisp.
11 - As the fritters color, remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Continue to dip and fry until all of the potatoes and batter have been used.
12 - Keep an eye on the consistency of the batter; it quickly thickens near heat. You may have to add water from time to time so you do not run short.

5 servings at ~37.5g carbs per serving.
Calories 183
Total Fat 0g
Total Carbohydrate 40g
Protein 5g

Original recipe called for 6 servings.

#thisweeksmeals #cooking

MY FRIENDS. WE HAVE PROPER LOOKING CINNAMON ROLLS.

Just....ignore those middle ones.

The secret was to cut them into strips THEN roll them. They rolled perfectly. The middleones are still silly looking, but onl because I didn't cut the "edges" or the end of the dough. I'll do that next time, whenever that is.

I'm calling this a success and FINALLY moving on to another bread next week!

Sunrise on a virtual world. With breakfast chicken.

#secondlife

It is gawdawful o'clock. How do you day dwellers do it....

Huh, it wasn't until Target Audience mentioned it, that I noticed this is the one shot in Star Trek with ALL the series regulars in one shot.

You have the main seven up front, but in the background you have Grace Lee Whitney's Janice Rand and Majel Barrett's Nurse Chapel, just behind Kirk.

Mark Lenard's Sarek is there, too, as he's as much a movie regular as any of the others.

I don't care what anyone says, I love a movie that knows exactly what it is, and everyone in it is in on the joke. Spiceworld is a FUN movie if you don't mind turning your brain off for two hours.

Testing the printer with the new wiring setup. My little fashion plate me looks like an animation cel.

Watched some TV with a friend today, and the audio on my old headphones cut out pretty badly. So I connected my bluetooth headphones, and forgot that the bluetooth on this PC is horrid (seriously, you put the bluetooth on the BACK of the PC, knowing full well the PC itself is blocking the signal?!).

Between this and the stylus dying, I kinda had enough, and decided to do some serious rejiggering of the PC stations.

First off, waste not want not, I took the pen display and just made it a secondary monitor. I can run movies on it while working on stuff here. For the bluetooth, I took the USB extender and an old Bluetooth dongle, and plugged it into the PC, disabling the onboard Bluetooth.

Everything seems to be working now, and now I can crowd the hell out of TWO screens.

Bluetooth works now, and a new pen display is coming. We'll see how that is coming. I'm not happy about having to drop a lot of money on it, but a friend helped finance it, so I'm grateful. :)

My room is a wreck, though....