2006
thoughts from above hit the people down below
maura @ 5:29 pm
More collateral damage from getting the paper: Mark Bittman is making me fat.
It’s true! First there was the super easy bread that Jonathan is STILL baking (three loaves last week!). I have to admit that it is delicious bread, and it saves us a whole $2.75 per week, woo hoo!
THEN there was the peanut brittle. The terrifying thing about this peanut brittle is that it can be made in only a few minutes with ingredients we tend to always have in the house: sugar, salt, and peanuts (I make myself trail mix as a snack, so we get the bulk peanuts from the hippie food coop). And it is goooooooooooood, DAMN good. Just to show off his mad melting skillz Jonathan covered a batch of it in dark chocolate for our family xmas presents. Ullgghhh.
What’s the problem this week? Pancakes! Which Jonathan hasn’t made yet but is threatening to make very, very soon. Damn you, Mark Bittman! I can feel my butt slowly expanding, sigh.
3 comments on “thoughts from above hit the people down below”
I was the dishwasher both times (chocolate-covered and plain) and both times cleanup was easy. I think he greased the sheet with butter? Mmmm, butter.
Sticky pans just need a soak for half an hour; the brittle itself releases very easily from its pan (butter, as suspected). I SPREAD THE WORD OF BRITTLE!
But is brittle (peanut, almond, etc.) hard to clean up? I have a terrifying vision of a verrrry sticky pan every time I see a recipe in Martha. Kind of like Rice Krispie snacks, fun to make, but you pay with the marshmellowy pan later. What circle of hell is this, anyway, that life is so unfair?