First off, we finished out steampunk costumes mostly on time. My vest looked really nice. The pants were epic fail the first time but Talia quickly saved them with another pattern. Thankfully we had enough extra fabric to make it or it would have been bad. Sadly, after the party friday night we were all too tired on saturday to go and take pictures. But we agreed to take some pictures in the park this coming Sunday so stay tuned for pics of that.
The steampunk party itself was kind of mhe. The people were very friendly and nice, but the music was all over the place. The most fun of the night was when the belly dancers came on to perform. Their dancing was really nice, but the one lead girl.... WOW you could tell she had a major pushup bra on. To the point where it was comical.
So next thing. Our box of random veggies and fruits came. We were kind of disappointed with it to be honest so we have decided that for next week we are only going to get the veggies and no fruit. The total contents of the box were:
2 Avocados (Fairtrade, Mexico)
4 Beefsteak tomatoes (LFP, Waterford, ON)
4 Beets (TO)
1 package Cremini mushrooms (ON)
lots of Gourmet blend salad mix (TO)
couple leaves Hearty greens medley [chard, collards, kale] (TO)
5 Yellow Onions (ON)
4 Oranges (Calif.)
4 Bananas (Fairtrade, Ecuador)
So we weren't really sure what to do with all of this so Talia looked up a really nice recipe for the beets. It also involved some onion and potato and was kind of a shredded veggie pancake or sorts. It was very delicious and my parents enjoyed it very much as well (they came to visit and look at our box).
All the random leaf veg we just tossed together and are slowly eating salads with them. The nice thing about this is that we have salads with different kinds of leaves. Normally when we make a salad it will only have romaine or iceberg lettuce and that`s it.
Oh, Talia also made a nice guacamole with the avocados and one of the tomatoes. That also went over really well with the parents and me. So well in fact that I ate the last of it this evening when I came home.
To accompany all of this I also made a nice loaf of bread which turned out perfect this time. Last time it didn't really rice that much and I left it for over an hour. This time it doubled in size in less than 40 minutes. I know have the perfect place to proof the bread; on top of the fridge where its warm. works perfect. So good in fact that after dinner My parents and us ate half of the batch I made. We were all so full after that we just lay in beanbag chairs and chatted for the rest of the night.
One other thing I tried out. Tonight I tried making Yorkshire puddings... which are not actually a pudding, its more of a bread or pancake that you bake in the oven. Sadly mine didn't turn out quite right. Instead of puffing up and being light and fluffy it turned kind of heavy and dense. I think its actually the eggs here. The recipe calls for 1 egg, but I think the eggs in Canada are smaller than the eggs in the UK or something. This is the second time that something like this has happened to me. I also think the reason the mayo attempts didnt work was because of the smaller egg yoke.
But I am not discouraged. I will try it again but I will had a little more milk to make it a little more watery like it was pictured in the book.
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