Thursday Bring your Pet to Thursdays #469

[Karen]

Hmm, share the recipe?

[Lady's Human]

Nope, ain't gonna do it!

( I will later, I'm stuck under a cat on the sofa)

[Lady's Human]

You know you're living with a star wars geek when:

You make donuts, and she picks one of them up out of the powdered sugar and says "Boba Fett's ship!"

[Karen]

You know you're living with a star wars geek when:

You make donuts, and she picks one of them up out of the powdered sugar and says "Boba Fett's ship!"

Hee hee! She fits in well with our clan!

[RICHARD]

Those donuts cause puddles on the kitchen floor.

And mentioning making them for dessert for dinner cause two very hyper kids this morning.

I'd puddle myself..........sounds good.

A refill for everyone this a.m.

Hot choco for me!

Done!

[DriftyAlison0]

Did I hear donuts? THEY ARE MINE SINCE I AM THE QUEEN AROUND HERE!

[Lady's Human]

Ummm......she might want to have a chat with Lady about that.

THey have to share, don't worry, there are plenty. I'm good in the kitchen, with one exception: I have no concept of appropriate amounts. Everything outgrows it's intended pan.

[Lady's Human]

And now for the doughnut recipe:

I think this came from allrecipes.com, not sure.

Oil for deep frying

3/4C sugar
2 tablespoons butter melted
2 eggs
3/4C applesauce
4C sifted flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp mace
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 C buttermilk
confectioner's sugar for dusting (normally use cinnamon sugar as well)

The spice amounts listed give a very, very light spice flavor, I use 3/4 tsp of mace and cinnamon to add to the flavor.

Heat oil in fryer to 375 deg. F

In large bowl (remember what I said about quantity control earlier in the thread? LARGE bowl.....gets messy)
beat together sugar, butter, eggs and applesauce. Sift together all other dry ingredients, then mix the flour mixture in with the egg mixture, alternating with buttermilk a little at a time to keep it workable. Mix until a stiff dough is formed.

From here its optional. I just make balls with the dough about 1 1/2" in diameter and deep fry for 4 minutes. According to the recipe they're supposed to be able to be rolled out and formed into doughnuts with a cutter, but to me the dough is too soft to work in that manner.

After frying, place on a paper towel to absorb some of the frying oil, then roll in either cinnamon sugar or confectioner's sugar.

[RICHARD]

Ummm......she might want to have a chat with Lady about that.

THey have to share, don't worry, there are plenty. I'm good in the kitchen, with one exception: I have no concept of appropriate amounts. Everything outgrows it's intended pan.

I told this story before, "appropriate amounts"?????

I was dying for a red chili dish and called home for my mom's for her 'recipe'.

Ma didn't like the 'competition' and would hem and haw about inquiries to her cooking style......

(Mom told me once that she would run into people who would comment on her perfume and if they asked what she was wearing, she would give them another brand name to throw them off the 'scent'.)

Anyway, she gave me the recipe in uncertain terms.....This, that and a palm-full of those.....

The "palm-full of those" was of the spice cumin....as in,"How much cumin?", "a palm-full".

I make the recipe and woke up in the middle of the night with a SCREAMING case of heartburn.....

This had never happened before so after a night of tossing, turning and comtemplating a trip to the ER, I called my mom the next day and figured out what had gone wrong.....

A palm full of cumin for a 4 foot eleven woman is not the same as the palm full of a six foot, two idiot....

[Lady's Human]

A palm full of cumin for a 4 foot eleven woman is not the same as the palm full of a six foot, two idiot....

I have similar issues when teaching the kids cooking. I know how much the palm of my hand holds, and I tell the kids DON'T measure the same way dad does. The problem that comes in then is translating the amounts into measurements for them when we're all working in the kitchen together.

[RICHARD]

I have similar issues when teaching the kids cooking. I know how much the palm of my hand holds, and I tell the kids DON'T measure the same way dad does. The problem that comes in then is translating the amounts into measurements for them when we're all working in the kitchen together.

My hand holds twelve ounces, sixteen ounces and the venerable 40 ouncer of malt liquor......

Yo, yo, yo...

[Karen]

That's why we have measuring spoons, guys! We don't have to abide by the measurements in anyone else's recipe, but we should know how much WE use!

But at least, Richard, your mother's recipes were more exact than our grandmother's - which would say "Flour - you know how much" - or our mother's, where the directions often end with "then you know what to do!"

And just FYI for the rest of Pet Talk - for Christmas this year, I gave Lady's Human the size equivalent of the "bread bowl" we used growing up, which was the "when it's too big for every other container ..." go-to bowl! Sadly, when we pulled the original out at Dad's last summer, it had developed a giant crack, so that one went on to that big kitchen in the sky!

[DriftyAlison0]

I am glad that Alison eventually shared the donuts.