You wouldn´t believe how time consuming chocolate chip making is! I´ve been working with melted chocolate and using a knife to slowly drip and dip chips onto wax paper. I´ve only got about two cups worth so far and would like to make enough to last me the whole winter. It´s definitely worth it. Anyway nobody knows what a chocolate chip is over here. My next homemade project is homemade corn syrup substitute, it is banned in Europe, but I´m going to make a recipe with cane sugar I found on line so I can make tasty treats. My roasted butternut squash turned out very successful and I toasted the seeds with salt (way better than pumpkin seeds).
On the menu for lunch was an amazing stir fry of chicken and fresh vegetables with sesame rice. I used a potato peeler to peel carrots into thin slices and then julienned them into superfine strips. The results were fantastic. I barely cooked my veggies and they had a very fresh taste.
I´m delaying my trip out to no-man´s land, or the lower end of the Zaidin, where the Carrefour and Lidl stores are, until tomorrow to buy my ovenware because tomorrow they start selling Christmas items at Lidl and I plan on buying a pannetone and some German Stollen bread as well as holiday cookie cutters. I am so excited I can finally begin enjoying baking now that I have my oven at last!!! I found the joyofbaking.com website which will be very helpful for making gingerbread men and other such delights.
There is nothing like cold weather to set the mood for a lovely season of baking.
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