I wrote a dear friend this about the cranberry muffins:
This is the cranberry muffin recipe! For vegan I used a powdered egg replacement and OJ in place of milk. For the Christmas muffins I used 2 eggs plus Orange juice for the milk! The OJ is perfect with the cranberry! I have not had one of these Christmas muffins with milk but the fully vegan ones are lovely. I also did NOT melt butter and add sugar at end. I used raw sugar which I add to the top of the batter when in the muffin tins before baking. I also add more than 1 cup raw cranberries per batch. And often add some at end on top.
[Picture above delicious samosas from Trader Joe's, sure hope I can go again to get more!]
The other day my Husband helped me with a culinary math question.
I wrote it up like this:
I did not want to open a big can of evaporated milk when I had half of the 1/3 cup I needed... so I looked up evaporated milk substitutes. One option was to have powdered milk but only had 60% of the water needed and it will be evaporated milk! It was the easiest way forward! link: https://food52.com/blog/25012-best-substitutes-for-evaporated-milk?
I used this from the above link from food52.com:
"5. Powdered Milk
In the unlikely chance you have powdered milk somewhere in your kitchen, you can also rehydrate the powder into evaporated milk—that’s not even really a substitute. Simply add 60 percent of the amount of water called for to reconstitute the product into regular milk, and you’ll be good to go."
I wrote up the math process like this:
My Husband did a calculation 1/18 divided by 0.6 so that I could have HALF of 1/3 cup of evaporated milk - in which I had half of the 1/3 cup left of evaporated milk and needed the other half of 1/3 in powdered milk at 60% hydration of water to make a evaporated milk substitute (when normally 1/3 cup powdered milk makes 1 cup of milk). Answer: 1.5 tablespoons of powder and enough water to make it halfway up the 1/3 cup. When I did it it was nearly identical to the half of the 1/3 cup I already had in evaporated milk.
It's cool to have a Husband who can do culinary math on a bit more of a complex level 🙂
And my post script about the math calculations:
so [his] calculations were: 1/18/0.6 = 0.09259259259
and then 0.093 cups to tablespoons
I explained to a friend (who said she would be lost with this math, that:
I would have been lost too if I did not visually see that I only had half of my 1/3 cup full of the remaining evaporated milk and I needed a full 1/3 cup of it!
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So there's the culinary exploits :)
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Today was kind of rough.
The neighbour's dog barked from midnight till 3 AM and
I did not get to sleep until sometime after 3 AM.
So I missed liturgy this morning, was really tired and out of sorts.
I did manage to prepare both the turtle bars and brownies
for gifts and they are in the freezer now.
Also froze the Cranberry Muffins I made yesterday.
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Tomorrow I hope to begin preparing gifts for Christmas on January 7th.
It's going to be a really strange, possibly hard Christmas.
Our far-away church is small and with the pandemic only so many
can be inside and all the spots are already full, so
we will either be in the basement (TV with audio of the service) if it is not
too crowded or we will be outside and hope we can hear something, while
seeing nothing.
Usually when we go, it's not a problem but with it being Christmas, I think
more people will come.
Well, at least our nearby church is large enough (it's huge) to accommodate
more people with super good social distancing.
This pandemic is really hard.
***
Well.
Last night I heard this on Instagram and was really taken by it.
The person who shared it told me it is this song and sure enough here it is:
(Strange band name, I think but it's beautiful, worth listening to!)
The Virgin of the Angels
The Virgin of the Angels
Covers me with her mantle,
And protects me vigilantly
Sacred angel of God.
The Virgin of the Angels
And/She protects me, protects me,
The angel of god
And/She protects me
The angel of god
protects me.
And protects me.
-from here
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And that, well, is what we needed.
Lord have mercy on us!!!
I pray for our salvation, for God's help in our time of need!
Lord be with us, do not leave us,
Your poor lost ones...
3 comments:
I'm actually so jealous that you have the option of going to church at all! They shut ours down again just at the beginning of the Advent fast. We are all very discouraged and trying not to be.
What's more is that our second church south of the border has been inaccessible to us since covid started, almost a year ago. And it's the church where we have our Father confessor. So that's really hard.
So I'm quite jealous that you still get to go to church at all. sigh.
also, those incredibly precise milk measurements and configurations are impressive and funny. kudos to your dear husband! I'd need my math brains husband on something like that. actually, I did a couple of weeks ago, ask him to help me figure out some gr.7 math that I have to teach this year :D
I'm very thankful for his math smarts.
Your husband is a Math Whizz!!!
Sorry about the barking dog. Hopefully it won't happen again.
If I'm not mistaken the cranberry recipe is from the More with Less cookbook.
No possibility of going to church here (BC) either :( But in any case, my local church is so small that the permitted room occupancy limit (depending which not very helpful guidelines you throw into the calculation) would only be about 10.
Lovely music - this video isn't available to me (Canada, or taken down?) but the music is "La Vergine degli angeli", from Verdi's La forza del destino, Act 2, and there are lots of good performances of it on Youtube.
The recipe is from Jean Pare's Company's Coming: Muffins & More cookbook - I recognize the page:) it and More With Less are both on my shelves too. I like this recipe a lot - also a good way to use up the last of the cranberry sauce, if (unlike us) you have any left over.
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