Bear with me... or is that Bare with me? Or is it some other spelling all together... I really am no good at spelling... *pulls out google* Aha! I am not the only one! I copied and googled "bear with me" and the first half dozen links were to discussions about which one it is... Turns out its Bear... not for animalistic reasons, but because its in reference to bearing a load... Ah!
Back to what I was saying... Bear with me... I will get better at this blogging thing... and it will get more interesting and full of valuable information and repostable bits of wisdom... Or at least... that is the plan isn't it?
So... today I realized randomly that chapsticks you don't want or need anymore, ones you wouldn't put on your lips... they are perfect for when you dye your hair! Just draw the chapstick on along your hair line instead of trying to do the jelly trick! Voila! no dyed skin!
Bread. We buy it. A lot. And eat it too (though I shouldn't be, I really do want to do the Paleo) but sometimes we end up with some of it left... So today I made my first foray into home made croutons... Sorta. I've cubed and toasted bread in oven before, used to do it all the time when I lived at the Covenant House oh so long ago... We'd eat it during movies like popcorn. I love Toast. Like Seriously... REALLY LOVE TOAST. (Which I now have TWO quotes to think of when thinking toast- Thanx Becky from Glee!)
*Heart attack* OMFG, I'm never going to get used to the mail here... its so random, and the slot is in the door, and loud. Scares the turds and whey out of me every time.
So anywho... this time I was using Good bread, you know... the rounded Artisan loafs? I cubed it (fairly big cubes) and then stared at it... How do you get it seasoned and oiled with out getting it soggy? My solution is usually to exercise my Google Powers... but this time I just looked at what I had... EVOO, seasonings... bread... zip lock bread was in to keep it from getting hard to soon. * light-bulb!* <always to be said like that character in that movie what my bestie loved so much, the one with the yellow things that looked like bug yellow pills with trousers and hair.
As I was saying (God, I hate when I interrupt myself) I had a zip lock already bready... thought about putting bread in first, but then figured it would still get soggy, so I drizzled the olive oil in, added seasoning, zipped up bag and spread it around inside of bag... opened back up, then tossed bread in, added a bit of air before rezipping, then shook it, stroked it, massaged it, made it call me names... and finally when bored with it dumped it...
onto a cookie sheet for my magically preheated oven. I've been burning the crap out of things lately, so I was uber paranoid about the croutons (my whole meal was planned around these!) so I baked till started to get warm and toasty... then flipped the bits and pieces, left in for a few more minutes, a little bit of browning was occurring, I got cold feet and just turned oven off... But they weren't crispy yet, so I left them in oven.... and promptly forgot they existed for a few hours, by time i pulled them out they were nice and crunchy!
Success. Now if only I had thought to get more veggies for the salad yesterday. >.< Nevermind, I have CHICKEN. We're good.
Ahgh... kids are hounding me, should prolly get up and finish dinner, or at least give them a snack. FRESH BAKED CHOCOLATE COOKIES TO THE RESCUE!
****EDIT****
took a picture of dinner right before we sat down to eat... thought I would share...
took a picture of dinner right before we sat down to eat... thought I would share...
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| ...the finished product... sorta. |
