Friday Question: Your Last Bake

What's the last thing you baked?  Was it sweet or savory? And would you bake it again?  The last thing I baked was yesterday's four plaited loaf - and the first thing I'll bake today is a toffee crunch cookie.

How 'bout you?

Homemade Bowtie Pasta

Badass ... Not so Much

Remember how I was gonna get all badass on that stack of coupons yesterday? Get 'em clipped and put away? Well, that never happened.  Instead, I wrote a new waffle stick recipe, along with making these rolls.

62.5% strong white and 37.5% spring wheat.  My goal was to add some brown, but retain the softness of the white. 

Happy to say, it worked.

I'd show you a picture of the sticks, but Tim ate them all.  Well, not all, but he did eat MOST of them.  Meanwhile, it's a new day and I need to get my coupons clipped. 

Right after I work on my Pepperoni & Cheese Bites.

CLUSTERMUCK

I don't like unorganized coupons.  It's annoying, and it's not my style.  Yet, I've let them go in trade for food writing and house stuff.  But that's no way to save money.

Today's goal: Get this clustermuck of a mess, back in order.

But first, dig my Easy Bake Oven experiment from last night.  Chocolate cookies with brown flour and lots and lots of yum. 

Best new fan oven, ever.

27-Day Smack Down

Time for another challenge, as I'm fresh out and in the mood to jump into something new.  This time, it's all about facing my fears about exercise.  Some already know, I have a few spinal/neck issues, blah, blah blah.  Older readers may remember (or not), how much I loved to jog.  And while jogging currently remains off limits, walking isn't. 

I've been scared to get back to it.   So for the last two weeks I've been walking five, ten and even fifteen minutes at a time.  Slowly rebuilding my confidence, rather than being afraid I'll hurt myself again. 

But enough farting around.  It's time for a throw down. Or is it a smack down?  Either way, I challenged Tim to join me in a walking goal.  He picked 27 days in a row, and today we start.

I will not be afraid of that treadmill. 

Save vs. Angry Wife

Today, Tim used my recipe for vanilla waffle sticks.  He snuck in extra vanilla but couldn't remember how much extra, he added.  He said he did it with love and there's no measurement for love.

So Tim made his save roll on that one, and the waffles were pretty frickin' good.  

Meanwhile, Tim's going around the house saying ...

Would You Let Your Husband Cut Your Hair?

Never made it home last night in time to make burgers and rolls.  But I did get to test my Easy Bake Oven, on leftover frozen take-out crappy pizza.  Let me tell ya, that little fan oven did a mighty good job.

I found myself with elbows on counter, hands on my cheeks, watching the pizza.  Just like I did when I was a kid, only then it was a little tin of cake batter, and a light bulb.

After that, I gave my husband my good sewing scissors and he lopped off a bunch of my hair.  Was down to my butt, now just past my shoulders.  I love playing with a new do.

Only I woke up not looking so cute because half-way through the night I had to remove my curlers.  Which meant I woke to half-curly, half not-so-much.  With a cowlick as a bonus.

This is not the look I wanted.  So up it went.  But that's okay, because Tim did a great job, and I can look cute tomorrow.

That's all from me.  Happy Saturday and boogie boogie.

BEHIND ON EVERYTHING

I'm behind on everything today.  Including housework and food shopping.  Tonight we're having bacon cheeseburgers, on home baked rolls.  Or maybe I'll make waffles.  Dunno yet. 

Anyway, this makes 54 days in a row (started before 2014).  Only instead of feeling like a daily goal to hit 44, somehow I've formed a habit.  I noticed the change around day 35.

And that wraps post 54.  Gotta get dressed and go see my honey bunny.  He left his headphones an iPod home, and I've gotta snag some sales before we go into our weekend.

Barnes & Noble here we come.  With gift cards and everything.  Love that cafe.  Tim writes and I stick my big fat nose in as many bakes books as I can find.

PS: What's for supper at your house????