Thank you for all your birthday wishes for Hannah! She had an awesome weekend!
She bought her first lottery ticket:
She won her first lottery ticket!
She bought whip cream! Okay, some of you had questions about why you had to be 18 to buy canned whipped cream. Apparently you can get high off of the nitrous oxide that makes the whip cream come out of the can!
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And. . . . she got her nose pierced! It’s tiny though. And Tony and I have always discussed with the kids – piercings you can take out but tattoos are forever!
So Hannah wanted biscuits with sausage gravy for breakfast. This is a breakfast she usually has at my Aunt’s lake house. I cheated a bit, because I used packaged gravy mix that my mom bought me, but it is so damn good!
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And the only sausage we buy – we used to buy cheaper sausage but it was so greasy, we stick with good ole Jimmy Dean:
One thing I’ve learned about making biscuits is to not overwork the dough too much. I also shred my butter too – I put a stick of butter in the freezer the night before – I think it makes for a tender buscuit.
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So Saturday I decided to attempt my first Healthy Bread in Five recipe. Click on the badge below for more information.
It was avocado bread. I can’t post the recipe, but I’ll give you what page it is on in the book!
It is interesting because it calls for mashed avocado in the dough!
You mix the mashed avocado with the water and add that to the dry ingredients.
The dough is pretty sticky, but after the two hour rise it was perfect. I decided first to make rolls for our burgers.
I weighed out 4 ounces of dough for each roll, brushed with water and sprinkled with black sesame seeds.
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So it was our first burger grill of 2010! It was almost dark outside, but that didn’t stop me!
I also made fries with dinner. These are the best fries – they are baked potatoes, quartered and deep fried – the secret? Two fries – the first time I just get them slightly brown, then when I am ready to plate, I drop them for another three minutes – so crunchy on the outside, yet tender on the inside.
My plate!
I really liked this bread, although Tony thought it had a weird aftertaste.
So I had a lot of dough leftover, and decided to use the same cooking method as the Best Bread Ever.
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I then baked it in my dutch oven for 30 minutes with the lid on.
And then another 15 minutes with the lid off.
I may have waited 5 minutes before slicing a piece!
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I had a great grocery shop – $107! (Breakfast and Lunch is just for me)
Breakfasts:
- Breakfast pizza
- zucchini egg white omelet
- crustless broccoli and cheese quiche (I’ll have this twice)
- oatmeal with craisins and almonds
Lunches:
- chicken tikka masala with brown rice
- broccoli cheddar soup
- beef noodle salad
- chili baked potato
- Posole soup with spinach quesadilla
Dinners:
- Scallop saltimbocca with mashed potatoes
- dinner at Chinese restaurant to celebrate Hannah’s b-day with my step-son Joe
- Pork chops with blue cheese dressing
- Sesame chicken salad with spinach, cucumber and cilantro
- Party Pizza Friday? (not sure I can convince Tony, so it may be fish tacos!)
Hope everyone had a great weekend – back to the grind – time to get ready for work! 😀
Your avocado-guacamole buns look delicious. I love dutch oven bread – so crusty and tasty! Yum!
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she will remember her birthday forever and if she doesn’t all she has to do is check your post from today. Great way to memorialize it. Now sine it’s dinner time here I would like a burger with some of that fries please!
I love your sesame buns. I loved this bread. I am going to try your best bread ever technique.
So far I’ve used three different doughs and they all came out beautifully!
So sweet that Hannah bought a can of whipped cream!
Love the idea of the twice fried French Fries and such a great idea too.
Your buns turned out perfect with such a great shape and rise!
I bake bread in my clay roaster and it bakes the best bread with a crunchy crust!
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Thank you everyone for your awesome comments! And thank you, family, for making my birthday even better =) Everything was perfect and the food was incredible! Best birthday 🙂
Love youu
glad hannah had a good bday!! that bread, yum… i need to start making stuff from that book 🙂 and weird fact about whipped cream!
I can’t believe kids have to be 18 to buy whipped cream! It was one of my favorite things when I was a kid.
And you are so right on the piercings vs. tatoo thing. My mom has a very personal tatoo in a not so personal space (read ankle) and it always makes me cringe. And lots of people in their 20s have small nose studs that they wear to work and it’s fine.
Guacamole bread? How odd! Looks good, though!
Happy belated birthday to Hannah! I’m glad she had a wonderful day! 🙂
Again- the most gorgeous and gourmet looking bread!! Avocado bread sounds so so good. I bet it’s deliciously moist!
And the double fry is such a smart way to get them crisper!
I got my nose pierced when I turned 18 too. Such a fun thing, and I took it out a year and a half later.
That bread looks amazing!
hannah is too cute! I am glad to hear that great birthday!
That is pretty funny about the whipped cream lol, I never heard about that before.
I’ve heard of kids abusing all sorts of thing but never whip cream?!
awww! Glad your baby had a nice weekend! Congrats on the win 😉 Avocado bread? Deliciousness! I want some now
Oh avocado bread!! Yum. I love the way it looks. Great idea! Thanks for linking up on Just Another Meatless Monday Biz.
When my younger son turned 18, he got his ears pierced, registered for the draft (had to) and joined the ACLU. It is so funny what they do when they are finally legal!
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