cooking up a storm
Feb. 20th, 2020 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujSo I'm having a birthday party Saturday. If you're local, and some who are not, you likely have gotten an invitation. If you didn't, let me know and I'll put you on my list.
Last week I made and froze meatballs. Monday night I made (veg) chili, unfortunately, a dent has been made by hungry housemates despite my pleas to leave it alone. "You should have made more!" Well, yeah but the pot's only so big. (Actually it seems that more would have fit in the pot, so I guess I should have.) There will be meat chili made by Peg as well, and a tofu concoction made by Valerie ("Winter Vegetable Stew" from Moosewood. It's really good.) I also bought a pile of those commercial hors d'oeuvres to heat up. And maybe some other people will bring food. (If you're reading this, hint hint.) I also bought a ton of snack foods.
Last week I made myself a birthday cake, and Jocelyn decorated it (she won't be at the party), and then I froze that. Tonight I made a second birthday cake, this one will be for George Washington (who is turning 288). I'll decorate it tomorrow, it's getting too late tonight for it to cool thoroughly. The recipe was for a bundt cake, and I wanted a 9x13, so I doubled it. Woo was that too much!! So now we have additionally a dozen cupcakes and 5 dozen mini cupcakes. If the party is better attended than I expect we can break out the cupcakes, those that haven't been eaten by hungry housemates. Though, they only have one day to demolish them... Last week's cake also generated mini cupcakes, though not nearly so many (and they have been consumed).
I'm also going to make a chocolate crazy cake, which I'm not going to decorate, so it will actually be vegan. I'll give it a dusting of powdered sugar. Both the cakes I already made have eggs. Last week's has buttermilk too. This week's is Chocolate Ginger Beer Cake so in theory it's dairy-free, but I buttered the pan. I often wonder if I should invest in some crisco so I can have something really dairy-free when it doesn't otherwise have milk or butter. But it's rare for people to be that picky about dairy without also being vegan. Also, for today's cake, I'm likely to use milk in the frosting.
Last week I made and froze meatballs. Monday night I made (veg) chili, unfortunately, a dent has been made by hungry housemates despite my pleas to leave it alone. "You should have made more!" Well, yeah but the pot's only so big. (Actually it seems that more would have fit in the pot, so I guess I should have.) There will be meat chili made by Peg as well, and a tofu concoction made by Valerie ("Winter Vegetable Stew" from Moosewood. It's really good.) I also bought a pile of those commercial hors d'oeuvres to heat up. And maybe some other people will bring food. (If you're reading this, hint hint.) I also bought a ton of snack foods.
Last week I made myself a birthday cake, and Jocelyn decorated it (she won't be at the party), and then I froze that. Tonight I made a second birthday cake, this one will be for George Washington (who is turning 288). I'll decorate it tomorrow, it's getting too late tonight for it to cool thoroughly. The recipe was for a bundt cake, and I wanted a 9x13, so I doubled it. Woo was that too much!! So now we have additionally a dozen cupcakes and 5 dozen mini cupcakes. If the party is better attended than I expect we can break out the cupcakes, those that haven't been eaten by hungry housemates. Though, they only have one day to demolish them... Last week's cake also generated mini cupcakes, though not nearly so many (and they have been consumed).
I'm also going to make a chocolate crazy cake, which I'm not going to decorate, so it will actually be vegan. I'll give it a dusting of powdered sugar. Both the cakes I already made have eggs. Last week's has buttermilk too. This week's is Chocolate Ginger Beer Cake so in theory it's dairy-free, but I buttered the pan. I often wonder if I should invest in some crisco so I can have something really dairy-free when it doesn't otherwise have milk or butter. But it's rare for people to be that picky about dairy without also being vegan. Also, for today's cake, I'm likely to use milk in the frosting.
