Fried Elf Legs

The answer to Friday's Question was organic prunes. To all who played, I award you a bowl of fried elf legs with a side of reindeer Pâté. For my veghead friends, we have a mock version made with veggies. Tastes almost the same, if not better.

Enjoy and Happy Winter (or Summer), depending on where you live. As for me, I'm headed into the Lemon Tart Room to rest, which really, I want to go shopping, but thanks to an autoimmune response to chemicals yesterday, I'm gonna have to sit the morning out.

This makes me cranky.

But as soon as I pop in a movie and hide under the Christmas blanket, it'll wash the cranks away. Because if I have to spend the morning resting, I might as well enjoy it. And I just spied a new box of herbal tea. Okay, I'm good.

Enjoy your day and I'll be back later.

FAKE FUDGE

Guess what? That almond coconut and cacao butter stuff that I made yesterday, where I chucked a bunch of stuff in the food processor. Well, let me tell you, from the fridge today, it's nothing like a nut butter or chocolate nut spread. More like a fake fudge of sorts, but without the sickly sweet or grainy texture.

It's delicious.

I'll make it again and take pictures because next go, I'll pour it into a traybake and cut it into squares. It's neat, sometimes I'll go to make one thing, say a nut butter but end up with something completely different but equally as fun.

In other news, we finally got a nice Saturday filled with snow. Granted, it's not buckets of snow, but it is just enough to bring on that Christmassy kinda magic.

I love it.

Date Night Canceled and Flour A, Flop

Our original date night plans to hit Barnes armed with coupons and gift cards, got squashed. That's okay, a night in sounds pretty darn good too. So we picked up a Redbox movie.

In other news, Flour A didn't work on my chicken tenders. However, this morning, Flour B worked pretty good on American-style pancakes and that gave me an idea for a pancake, cake - layered with coconut frosted goodness. More on that when I give it a go.

Earlier, I told you about making coconut butter. Well, after I did that I also made an almond butter, cacao and coconut butter mix. It was pretty darn good and less expensive than me buying hazelnuts.

It's just about supper time here at The Manor. Chicken legs, tots and organic baby arugula (rocket). Enjoy your weekend and I'll catch ya' on the flipside.

Raise Your Hand If ...

Raise your hand if you're ignoring your chores today. I am. That's me. Instead, I made coconut butter and I'm soon to drain the 13 hour chicken stock pot. The house smells lovely.

I'll be back Monday with the answer to Friday's Question. Meanwhile, I gotta get dressed. I'm still in my Captain America shirt, Valentine jam bottoms and Tim's over-sized slippers. Whilst I do make this look good, I'd like to be more dressed and less stinky for Barnes later. It's date night. And we have killer coupons plus gift cards.

That's all from me, time to drain the stock. Have a yummy night and an oogie boogie weekend. Cheers.

FQ: What Am I?

Hey Guys: I just posted the answer, here. Thanks for playing and boogie boogie.

Whooshing My Way Through

I woke super late today and have been buzzing about the house, whooshing through chores so that I can go ingredient shopping. Something came up yesterday, and I never went. But today, I shop.

I'm super duper excited because Tim just called and my shipment of tomorrow's Friday Question came in. Yum, yum, yum. More on that tomorrow.

In other food news, Flour B worked nicely in palacsintas (Hungarian pancakes that I ate for lunch). Up next, the double butt waffle iron. Will Flour B work? Won't know until I try, but hey, that's where the fun is at.

That's all for now. Over and out, Buttfaces.

My Flour Can Beat Up Your Flour

I've been playing with Flour A for a bit now. It's a formula I made from mostly home-ground nuts, seeds and anything else I can make into a flour. Although there remains one component that I still buy. But it won't be long until I'm making that at home as well. Because home-ground flours beat the ever lovin' snot out of anything, shoppe-bought.

But I digress.

This afternoon, I was struggling with Flour A and I thought, wait a cotton' pickin' minute. How about I add my beloved sorghum flour and call this batch, Flour B.

Voila! Flour B is born.

Now, for more testing. Let's see how she does in my double butt waffle iron. But first, I'm off to Aldi to see what's on offer this week. Tim had the car all last week and now that I am not housebound, I'm going ingredient shopping.

Muwhahahahaha.

What Are You Eating?

I really didn't get much done but rest and watch food on streaming video on the big screen, in the movie room. But I'm okay with needing a day of rest. And tonight, nothing fancy, just gonna bake a few organic chicken legs (for both) and heat up leftover homemade pizza (for Tim).

What are you having? Something yummy?