Quotidian: daily, usual or customary;
everyday; ordinary; commonplace
Dark winter mornings and the blessed coffee corner.
Dried fresh cranberries have almost zero flavor. Why?
Strawberry ice cream with crunchy oat crumbles.
When cheese cheeses.
Stacking up.
Nature’s palatte.
Ice bath #1.
Ice bath #2.
About three steers in and I’ve finally stopped overcooking the steak.
The burgers, on the other hand….
18: I no longer have any minor children.
Welcome, Remus! (Our first night birth, which we missed, of course.)
Farm tag.
Me and Grace.
This same time, years previous: the spiced onyx, Dear Daughter, how we homeschool: Amber, snake cake, the quotidian (2.12.18), bits and bobs, chasing fog, one-pot macaroni and cheese.
8 Comments
KC
Are the dried cranberries still flavorless after being rehydrated in something? My guess would be that the flavor/tang is locked up in the fiber when the berries are just halved or left whole, unless you soaked a dried cranberry to full rehydration and it still didn’t have any flavor, in which case something is getting lost in the process…
The store-bought ones have both sugar and oil, each of which does a different flavor-transit job, if I understand things correctly, and the sugar keeps things plump and accessible instead of locked-down into a little plywood lump.
Anyway! Good luck with your experimentation! If you need no-refined sugar but fruit sugars are fine, consider applesauce or mashed dates, perhaps?
Jennifer Jo
I don’t know! I’ll have to try it and report back.
Kathy
Time is a very weird thing! All of your children “of age”?!! How can that be true when I still think of you, yourself, as a kid?!
Becky R.
Hey, Jennifer, could you elaborate about the cheese? I am intrigued. Love this post!
Jennifer Jo
Sure! Which part of it?
Karen
Another awesome post!
Try this for the cranberries:
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-dry-cranberries/
Steak looks very tasty, maybe a little browner?
I bring mine to room temperature and season.
Blazing hot Cast Iron skillet w/a bit of oil
Sear on one side, turn, put skillet in oven to desired doneness; 4-5 minutes for rare, and go up from there.
Have you ever dried your sourdough starter?
Jennifer Jo
Thanks for the tip for the cranberries! I need them to be unsweetened, but I never thought to boil them first.
The steak photo is in horrible lighting — it’s actually a lot browner than it looks…
Nope, I’ve never had a need for dried starter so I’ve never done it. Lots of people do, though!
Janet
I love your Monday blogs. Great pictures and a great, fun family. Thank you for sharing.