Happy Early Birthday To Me
My birthday isn’t until April 3, but Deb had ordered me a present, which arrived yesterday and was wrapped, waiting on my chair when I came home. She was too excited and I was too mystified not to open it. It was very heavy for the size of the box.
It was Cast-Iron Cooking For Dummies! Which is a cool concept. In a box that has the distinctive design of the Dummies books, you get two Lodge Cast Iron pans, pre-seasoned, with a cover that fits both, and the Dummies book filled with recipes. The pans are a 5 quart Dutch oven nd a 10 1/4” skillet.
Perhaps now I can try making Acidman’s cornbread:
*Put a big dollop of bacon grease in a bowl. (I don’t measure a “dollop.” I KNOW what one looks like.) Add two cups of corn meal, a palm full baking powder, a handful of sifted flour, 1 and 1/2 cups of milk and one raw egg. Beat the shit out of that mixture until it is smooth, then ladle it into a cast-iron skillet (buttered beforehand).
*Bake the cornbread in the oven at 425 degrees for 25 minutes.
It’s cool that we can still be excited about buying each other house stuff. We both wanted cast iron eventually, and I seem to recall having put it on my Christmas last last year. It was a complete surprise though. I was expecting something more along the lines of DVD, book or CD genres. To my credit, yesterday afternoon at the office I finally thought of the possibility it might be a kitchen something.
Well, I was going to try to give some examples of the recipes in the book, but work calls. In an odd sort of way. I checked with my big client to see if they could hurry up and pay me, and they have no record of ever having received the invoice. So before another client can drag me in for a malware emergency this morning, I need to go print them another copy so they can pay me and I can pay rent and stuff. That’s important.
After 5 1/2 years we still like giving each other house/cooking stuff. That doesn’t go away if you enjoy sharing your gifts with each other
Happy early birthday!
Posted by caltechgirl on 03/17 at 11:07 AMWe’re coming up on 33 1/3 years (which I suppose is some kind of a record) and we still like giving each other house/cooking stuff. That doesn’t go away if you enjoy sharing your gifts with each other. We don’t make a big gifting thing of it, it’s more that we’ll be thrift shop shopping together and will formally present a find before placing it in the cart, put there is still that sharing of enjoyment thing going on.
Posted by triticale on 03/18 at 08:57 AM
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