{"id":7693,"date":"2021-04-10T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2021-04-10T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T19:06:15","slug":"other-cooking-adventures-not-having-to-do-with-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/10\/other-cooking-adventures-not-having-to-do-with-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Other cooking adventures, not having to do with chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, last weekend, I only wrote about chicken<\/a>, but I actually cooked some other things.<\/p>\n

On April Fool’s day, I burned a perfectly good batch of sourdough. I set a timer and went upstairs to work and when the time went off I thought I’d go check the bread after I finished an email, and then forgot all about it for two hours. I posted the pics and somebody suggested croutons with the still-soft middles of the bread, which worked well. The croutons were really only nice and crisp right out of the oven – we enjoyed them on a salad the first night, and then I re-crisped them for a second salad, and then I made panzanella with the last.<\/p>\n

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Probably it was universe telling me I didn’t need to make more bread, since I had made a perfectly nice loaf of challah<\/a> with sourdough discard just a few days before (also featured on Insta<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Last Saturday Al & Emma came for brunch – the first people other than us we’ve sat inside with since something like March 15, 2020<\/a>, when John & Megan were here. We ate breakfast burritos and fruit salad and chocolate matzoh and lemon cheesecake bars, the crust made from the Girl Scout cookie Lemonades<\/a>, which proved to be delicious, just the right amount of lemon. I bought the cookies by a combo of ordering online using a code to benefit a local Scout Troop and curbside pick up off the girl’s porch, the house where they always have lots of seasonal inflatables, Nightmare Before Christmas, Christmas Dragon<\/a>, and most recently some kind of Easter crocodile – I think it’s a crocodile<\/a>, anyhow.<\/p>\n\n\t\t