Category: bread

Orange Cocoa Apple Bread

appley apple bread

Perhaps it is not particularly wise of me to experiment with bread baking before my first cup of coffee, but I’m just a wild risk taker. Danger girl, that’s me. Of course, my non-coffee-wakened mind just misread the butter wrapper and thought that 1/3 of a cup of butter was marked as the equivalent of a little more than a tablespoon. There I am, trying to cream together a tablespoon of butter with a cup of sugar, wondering how on earth it’s going to be creamy, when it finally occurs to me that 1/3 of a cup of butter should look like a lot more than that.

After the apple pie making on Friday, I had about a cup left of pie filling, and decided to make some kind of apple bread this morning. Not having an apple bread recipe, I decided to pretty much make something up, after reading a few recipes online. This could be disastrous, people.

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Frijoles Refritos, con tortillas

frijoles refritos  

I realized the other day that the only Spanish I know is food-related vocabulary.

Yes, the big pot of beans I made Saturday night were refrito-ed on Sunday, and I also decided, while I had lard and everything, to go ahead and make tortillas, too. It was really a much easier project than I was anticipating.

Refrito-ed doesn’t actually mean refried. (Well, refrito-ed doesn’t actually mean anything at all.) It means they are overcooked, not fried twice. I guess it has something to do with the fact that “re-” as a prefix in Spanish is primarily used to add emphasis, and to indicate that there’s been extra-whatever happening. Wow, I’m bad at explaining grammar type stuffs. Anyway, my understanding of this meant that I just had to cook the crap out of those beans, which is pretty much what I did.

Buying lard really was kind of a funny experience, as detailed by the Paupered Chef guys. It was from their fish taco making post that I took my recipe for tortillas. They really weren’t difficult to make at all, which surprised me. The whole bean and tortilla process took about an hour, and that included doing all the dishes.

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