хooл xийx (to cook)

Holli and I have instituted weekly baking and cooking challenges for ourselves. We both find joy in spending time creating food, so each week we research recipes and select things that we think we can make.

Our criteria is pretty simple:

1.) We have to be able to find the ingredients here and they can't cost exorbitant amounts of money. That rules out a lot of things- such as anything including spices, shortening, cocoa, etc.

2.) We have to actually want to eat the food.

3.) We have to have the necessary kitchen supplies. No mixers, bread machines or fancy pots and pans required, because we don't have them. Think two pans, two mixing bowls and one wooden spoon.

This week's challenges....

Pretzels:

This dough didn't turn out exactly the way it should have, mainly because the packet of Mongolian labeled stuff we hoped was yeast...wasn't. But they still tasted good, just a little dense.



Pre-baking:


Post-baking:


We brought them with us to share with the hospice staff this morning and had them with our morning tea:-)


Quiche:

I found this pie crust recipe online, as I needed one that didn't require shortening. It was incredibly easy to make and tasted good too.



Add in some sausage, bell pepper, onion, tomato, eggs and milk.



On my to bake list? Cinnamon rolls, apple pie and oatmeal cookies :-)