One year ago today, I blogged about the Feast of St.Valentine and of course what I made for dinner. Today I made Spinach Stuffed Leg of Lamb (Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book) and Cinnabon Clone Cinnamon roles (recipe courtesy of Dinka).
Today, I picked up an Amish cookbook to add to my cookbook collection. My Amish neighbor who runs "The Amish Store" seemed surprised I cooked, although admitted to sampling my homeade pannetone when I sent it to her daughter's for Christmas and said it "was really good". Another one asked my husband what I do:
Hubby: She stays home and takes care of the kids.
Neighbor: That's good because women all want to run away these days.
Even though I knew what he meant, this last statement inspired a strange image of women with those sticks with the red with white polka dotted cloths tied at the end to the carry their few parcels running away from their homes.
That Better Homes Cookbook is a classic! Straightforward, practical, and edible (the food produced, that is).
That's totally the image I used to have when I was a little kid whenever I heard or thought about the concept of "running away". Amazing what a diet of non-stop cartoons can do.
DD,
Did you ever wonder what an anvil was really for besides dropping on the heads of anthropomorphisized animals? Or did you ever look for those little mouse arches in your baseboards? Or did you ever try to bite a coin to see if it is real or even wonder how that proves a coin is real?
Totally! Of course, we were big train fans so the anvil thing was solved pretty quickly, but I definitely wanted to have the power to morph my face into the shape of a frying pan. And having a little pet mouse with his own mouse hole in the baseboards was always something I'd wanted (and I even imagined them having little matchbox beds and thimble cups, just like on Tom and Jerry, too). Also, I did indeed bite many a coin. I wasn't sure why this was the way to test their authenticity, but I figured it might have had something to do with the wooden nickel thing. Of course, through the magic of Google, I found out that it was to test the hardness of gold coins (since a lot of people would try to pass off gold alloys and other fakes as real gold, but those metals are harder than pure gold).
Speaking of wooden nickels...
Its a bindlestiff, in case anyone was wondering.
The little polkadotted bundle on a stick, I mean.