::Leader Board:: Ahnko Honu Takes The Lead Chapter 22!

bbycrts said:

I figured it probably wasn't an MB...but I've been teasing you about getting one pretty much since your first post in the thread all those years ago, so I had to take the opportunity!

Click to expand...

Yeah, I know, but this one is real.

sukie said:

Hahahaha.
And you didn't know for how long?

Click to expand...

mailman said:

Okay, the first two loaves are in the oven. Many more to go.

I hope I did the right things. There were two situations I was unsure about.

The recipe calls for double-acting baking powder, which I found in the pantry. There was other stuff I needed, so I went to the store and got them. When I got home, and began baking, I found that the baking powder was hard in the can. I'm not sure if it's okay, but I chopped it up with a knife, and ground at it until it was powdery again. I really didn't want to go back to the store.

The recipe also calls for grated lemon peel. I have never dealt with it, and suppose I could have left it out, but it sounded good to me. Not really knowing exactly what to do, I bought fresh lemons and a small hand grater. I washed the lemons, and grated the peel off of the whole fruit into a bowl until I got down to the flesh of the lemon. Not knowing what to with the naked lemon, I threw it out (wasteful, I know).

I wish I knew a really knowledgeable food science guy to reassure me that I did the right things....

Click to expand...

mailman said:

Very true about my lack of sense of smell, which is a source of frustration for Elaine. Odors and aromas are just not things I think about. They just don't occur to me, as they are outside my frame of reference.

I'll put things in the trash, or rinse food into the sink strainer, or leave something around, uncleaned. Next thing I know, she's upset that it's "making the house stink". I'm sorry, and I didn't do it to annoy her, but it's just not something I'm aware of....

Click to expand...

salukulady said:

The only thing you did wrong was throwing away the lemon.

Click to expand...

gyosh said:

Your baking powder was too old but your bread probably still rose because of the baking powder.

If you took the lemon peel down to the flesh it's going to b,e bitter. The "zest" is only the yellow part. It carries the essential oils. The white part below that is bitter.

Your loaves will be okay, just not as good as they could have been.

Click to expand...

Tack said:

Hmmm... Kinda....
In Australia - as in the USA (!) AFTER you complete your primary medical degree, you stream into either a surgical or non-surgical speciality - unless you want to be a primary care physician/General practitioner. Here, non-surgical specialists undergo "Physician training" and surgical specialists "Surgical training". That's it.
SO in my case.... 6 years primary medical degree (got an MB BS - Batchelor of medicine and Batchelor of surgery. Under the English system that entitles you to be called "Doctor" as it is a double degree. We don't generally have an MD degree although it is possible to do one as a post graduate degree). THEN I did 3 years basic post graduate training and THEN entered a surgical speciality stream and after another 4 years got my FRACS (College of surgeons...) as a GENERAL Surgeon... THEN I entered another stream and did three years to get my additional speciality qualification as a Cardiac surgeon. So - educationally - here and in the UK and in-fact in the USA - Surgeons and Physicians (Meaning specialists in non-surgical fields) have the same medical education UNTIL they specialise.
NOW.... Under the English tradition - and that is all it is.... Surgeons are often referred to as "Mister" not "Doctor" - a hang over from the old days. Initially all surgeons were NOT medically trained in the traditional sense (They were "Barber surgeons") and were looked down upon by the non-hands-on physicians. SO they were called "Mister". Eventually the training became as I have described so Surgeons were entitled to be called "Doctor" - However - many still insisted on being referred to as "Mister" . It is now inverse snobbery....
Phew... make sense?

Click to expand...

Ukulelerob said:

If she lived in Wisconsin she might be Eau Claire?


.

Click to expand...

gyosh said:

Don, sprinkle some granulated sugar on the top of your zucchini bread before baking.

Click to expand...

mailman said:

I've heard of that with the disposal, but we don't have one. For some reason I don't understand, she doesn't like them, and won't have one....

Click to expand...

gyosh said:

Hapa Haole kid in my class wanted to show me a video of a ukulele player that he idolizes.

He pulled up Benny Chong on YouTube.

I pulled out my phone and showed him clips from NAMM and a pic I took with Benny.

Instant Cred

Click to expand...

gyosh said:

Your baking powder was too old but your bread probably still rose because of the baking powder.

If you took the lemon peel down to the flesh it's going to b,e bitter. The "zest" is only the yellow part. It carries the essential oils. The white part below that is bitter.

Your loaves will be okay, just not as good as they could have been.

Click to expand...

gyosh said:

If you have cream of tar tar you can mix that with baking soda and you'd have baking powder.

Click to expand...

bbycrts said:

At a family reunion once my nephew and niece thought it was hilarious to call their father by his first name. I pulled them aside and told them he deserved the respect of being called dad. Those two have had little to no constructive direction from their parents in their lives - their parents love them dearly but have never given them boundaries or required anything of them. They were a little shocked when I confronted them like that, but I wasn't mean about it. I told them Dad isn't just an endearment, it's a title that deserves respect. They both stopped calling him by his first name immediately.

Believe it or not, I'm the strictest parent in the family, I think, probably followed by my oldest brother. Ben has thanked me many times for giving him boundaries and guidelines...

Click to expand...

Freeda said:

I called my dad Ted once, when I was 12. He backhanded me down the stairs.

Click to expand...

salukulady said:

I can hear it in Marions smart-ass preteen voice, "okay, TED."

Click to expand...

salukulady said:

3 years? This year on the field I was STILL blaming Monkey and Yopp.

Click to expand...

bbycrts said:

I've never had green zucchini bread - that sounds a little odd! Sheryl almost always has a loaf or two of zucchini bread available - Annie is a terribly picky eater, but she will so far always eat that. We got home from our trip to six colossal zucchinis in the garden. Ben watered for us while we were gone, but he didn't pick anything .

Oh, and Don - someone may already have weighed in, but you really just want to get that very outer layer off the lemon - the shiny yellow part. Leave the white layer.

Click to expand...