Breakfast was donut muffins, from the Hillbilly Housewife website.
Lunch was pigs-in-blankets.
In the afternoon, we made pretzels. The mid-kid had asked last weekend if we could make pretzels, and I promised him we'd try it this weekend. Well, we did, and it was not TOO difficult. I adapted a recipe from my trusty Bread Machine Magic cookbook - I wanted a larger amount of dough, and I thought it should have salt, so I used:
1 1/3 c + 2 Tbsp water (the dough was too dry as it was mixing, so I added the 2 Tbsp)
4 c flour
2 1/2 tsp salt
4 tsp sugar
3 tsp yeast
I ran it through the dough cycle in the bread machine, then the fun began!
Mid-kid makes a snake and I shape a pretzel:
Mid-kid shaping the dough:
Starting a rope, with finished pretzels on the cookie sheet:
After rising, the pretzels get in a boiling water bath to poach for about a minute - 10 c water with 2 1/2 tsp baking soda added, then baked at 425. Some of them stuck to the cookie sheet; I think I'll use either a foil or parchment liner the next time.
Finished salted pretzels:
Finished cinnamon sugar pretzels:
They were really good- and not so difficult.
Dinner was a wild rice casserole that I first made when I was in high school and some friends of my parents gave them some wild rice. This (or a very similar) recipe was attached. All I remembered other than the sour cream and almonds was that (1) it was too salty, (2) it was a really huge recipe, and (3) it smelled god-awful while cooking. Google pointed me to a recipe for Wild Rice Baron from a wild rice site. I mostly used this recipe, except: (1) I halved the amount of everything, (2) used light soy sauce, (3) used sliced rather than slivered almonds, (4) didn't add the extra 2 tsp salt to the casserole itself, and (5) added more like 1/2 tsp pepper to my half-recipe.
Looks like dog food, doesn't it:
Even when smushed in a casserole, it doesn't look very appetizing:
It got a little hard on top while baking; I think next time I'll put some foil on the top while it bakes.
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