Noodles: A few folks asked about my egg noodle recipe. It's fairly free form but here goes: combine 1 cup of sifted flour with 1 egg with a fork until it's rather crumbly looking. Slowly add water a little bit at a time until a ball of dough is formed. Depending on your flour, air conditions etc. the amount of water will vary just slowly add little bits at a time. Once the dough is formed, knead it for a few minutes on your countertop. Then cover with a towel and allow to rest for 20 minutes. It won't rise but it does need to rest for the gluten to form. After resting roll the dough out, as thin as you can stand and cut into noodles. Remember the noodles will swell when boiled so don't make the dough to thick or cut extremely wide noodles. I use a pizza cutter to cut the noodles into shape. Allow the noodles to dry on your counter top for a while before adding to your soup or boiling water to cook. I believe you can dry the noodles completely and store for another day's use - I've never done this but I'm fairly certain that's how lots of folks do it.
Craftiness: Yesterday I ventured into the craft room and opened the box of UFOs (unfinished objects). I finished two tote bags that had been in the box forever. I also made this pillow:
I started that panel/block a while back thinking I'd use it for a tote bag of some sort. However, I never loved it for a bag. The longer I looked at the more I disliked it, so it sat in the UFO box. Yesterday as I looked at it, I thought it'd make a nice pillow. So I used the brown plaid fabric for the back and voila - a new throw pillow. It does make a lovely pillow and best of all, Jeff really loves it. So the pillow has made it's home on our couch and won't be added to my stock for sale.
Quote: This was in a magazine article about new year's resolutions. I loved it and had to share: "Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better." - Sydney J. Harris While not completely true in every aspect of my life. It certainly rings true for me regarding healthy eating. I want my pumpkin cheesecake to suddenly be good for me so that I don't have to change my eating habits. FYI: the article was in the Taste for Life magazine - a health magazine distributed at my local health foods store.
Well Wishes: Happy New Year to everyone who reads this - may 2007 be the best year so far in your lives.
6 comments:
Darn that Jeff, I wanted to buy that!! Bob.
Happy New Year!
Great pillow!!
And Happy New Years to you, too!!
Beautiful cushion, Katie. Are the trees embroidered? Hard to tell these things in a picture, lol.
I'm with you on wanting to be healthier while still eating the same old stuff we like to eat... lol. However, I think this is where another quote comes in, though I don't know who originally said it:
"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got."
And then there's the definition of insanity:
"Continuing do do the same thing, expecting different results" (or something like that).
Happy 2007!! :o)
Happy New Year to you too!
I almost always dry my noodles. On noodle making day, you can find tea towels drapped over the ceiling fan, the backs of chairs etc with noodles laying on top of the tea towels to dry.
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