Productive Day in the Kitchen

Not so much in the garden. Saturday it rained. All. Day. Long. And the temp didn't get to 50 degrees, so I spent most of the day in the kitchen.

I started with the tail end of last week's loaf of bread & made some yummy bread pudding with chocolate chips (only my "chips" were more like little wafers). Then I made another load of bread - and realized I have not purchased a loaf of bread since around Thanksgiving! This is partly due to all the experimenting I was doing with sourdough during January & February. I also had a pot of chicken stock going during all of this. Smelled really good in there! Finished up by having a go at homemade crackers using Kathie's recipe at Two Frog Home. (The recipe is in the Comments section.)

Sunday morning dawned with no rain in sight, but it was chilly, plus a grandson's birthday party was the day's main event, so no gardening was accomplished until later in the afternoon, & all I managed was to pick a few stalks of rhubarb (it's looking rather thin) and some leaf lettuce, spinach and radishes. And more rain today (Monday). Forecast is for nicer weather by the end of the week, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Post would not be complete w/o a OKP*, so here's TJ keeping his glowing eyes on me while I work in the kitchen.

He's been going a little stir crazy not getting to go outside. I only let my cats outdoors when I'm outdoors, & since it's been raining all week, I haven't been outdoors. He paces, prowls, cries, picks on the 'girls', races around - is basically a pain. But he's mostly a sweetie, & they all got outside for a little while yesterday afternoon, so that should hold him for a few days...