Whilst others are making yogurt, I tried my hand at mayonnaise, or, as I am dubbing it, "Creamy Country Garlic and Herb Salad Dressing".
One of my neighbors loaned me her Mennonite "More with Less" Cookbook today. As I was looking through it, I was suddenly overcome with a desire to create lovely things in the kitchen. This, obviously, is not an every day occurence for me! But I thought, since we've already had dinner, that I would make something that would keep for tomorrow... and I happened upon a recipe for "Salad Dressing". Which, as it turns out, is just really yummy fresh mayonnaise. But it's really tasty, and I added some of my "Country Garlic and Herb" mix (which I splurged on a few months back at the import supermarket!) to it, and it's fantastic!
Jackie and I, while we watch our episode of ER tonight, will be chowing down on cucumbers and fresh salad dressing. Do you realize how long it's been since I've eaten a nice creamy salad dressing?! Considering the fact that we eat salad every day, this is going to be a nice treat! (by the way, when I say "salad", I mean raw tomatoes and cucumbers, sometimes with some green pepper chopped in - ain't no lettuce anywhere to be found in this country!)
By the way, until yesterday, the F button on my keyboard was sticking. Today, the problem seems to have migrated down to the C button. I now have clear evidence of the fact that "C" is a much more common letter in English than "F".
AND, I got to do a little dance of joy last night! The pesky email problem that I've been dealing with for the past 12 days finally got fixed! Wooo-hooo! I was skyping (again!) with the guys in the UK and the US, and they finally were able to get things moving. What a relief to see emails actually downloading into my inbox from my work email address!
Well, that salad dressing is calling my name...
5 comments:
Seriously, one of my favorite books of all time is that More with Less Cookbook. The Mennonites are geniuses in that thing. But be carefull, when you read more with less you'll start wanting to grow unnatural amounts of things for just yourself but its all because you want to can in and live off of God's bounty and natural goodness and never go to a grocery for a can of something again. "If I could just catch a tuna, I would can it myself and then I wouldn't have to buy tuna again. How 'bout I make bread? I'll make bread everyday. Homemade bread is good for me..." And then you won't be able to fit out your front door because you ate a loaf of bread a day for a month...
Yay for the More with Less Cookbook!
I love the More With Less Cookbook. I actually got my copy at Boxing Day white elephant gift exchange the first year we were married. It was like gold to me!
Man, now that I've seen the book so many times, I can't imagine why anyone would ever give one away for a White Elephant gift?! I wonder if there will be one under the Christmas tree for me this year :)
Hint taken ;-)
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