I have not forgottened my intention to find some Good Things about Houston. It's been hard... really, really hard... but today I managed to discover two Good Things about Hou
ston. Here is the first one:
Yes, it is a six-pound can of tomato sauce. I haven't seen one of these in years. I think I still ate meat last time I saw Mom make sauce with an enormo-can. Today I made a batch of sauce using only one can of Hunt's, instead of the three or four I have had to use in the past. The size of my batch of sauce is now limited by the size of my biggest pot (thank you, Mumsy, for the big pot) instead of how many cans I could open before I got bored (thank you, Grandpa, for the impatience genes).
Ok, now for the second Good Thing:
It's bread. Or at least, it was bread about an hour and a half after this picture was taken. It took only about an hour for this blob to double while sitting out on the porch, in the sun, with a damp cloth on. The second rising took less than half an hour.
Go, porch.
ston. Here is the first one:Yes, it is a six-pound can of tomato sauce. I haven't seen one of these in years. I think I still ate meat last time I saw Mom make sauce with an enormo-can. Today I made a batch of sauce using only one can of Hunt's, instead of the three or four I have had to use in the past. The size of my batch of sauce is now limited by the size of my biggest pot (thank you, Mumsy, for the big pot) instead of how many cans I could open before I got bored (thank you, Grandpa, for the impatience genes).
Ok, now for the second Good Thing:
It's bread. Or at least, it was bread about an hour and a half after this picture was taken. It took only about an hour for this blob to double while sitting out on the porch, in the sun, with a damp cloth on. The second rising took less than half an hour.
Go, porch.
Think that bread thing would work in Arizona? I'd assume so...
ReplyDeleteI see you also inherited the "Cooking for the Croatian Army" gene. There is...now let's see, ONE of you! There are...let's see, TWO of us - and your Uncle Paul makes about three times that much sauce at a time. Should last us months! (Why then, is it gone in about a week?)
ReplyDeleteThe bread thing would only work in AZ during monsoon season - it's too dry the rest of the year. Unless you want to replace the cloth every 5 minutes.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I defnitely have the Croation-Army-Cook gene. I now have more sauce than I can fit in the freezer, even after my dear aunt took a container home with her (and I didn't even have to trick her by hiding it under the car seat... not quite). Will this stop me from purchasing the same can of tomato sauce next time? Not likely.