The 100 Days of Real Food Facebook page has 4 weeks worth of free menus. Anna asked which ones I wanted to do. Since I did not respond right away, she messaged me (again and again) and eventually said how about week 2 and 4 and I think I said something like, "Fine, week 2 and 4." Truth be known, I was glad to not have to make the choice and have to take responsibility for any disasters and icky recipe choices (hehehe).
Because of the *insane* amount of completely from scratch cooking, we started cooking somethings in advance on Friday. I made the granola. Anna, I think, made about half the menu and sent me messages on my facebook wall like, "Did you make your wafflles yet?!?!?!" Why make waffles today if you can put them off until tomorrow? I actually canned 24 jars of chili in the pressure cooker, which took stinking forever so I did not have time to precook anything but the granola.
I went shopping Saturday. To my surprise, it was not nearly as expensive as I thought it would be. I did not try to convince my family of the venture. I cook, therefore they eat, right?
We started yesterday. Or shall I say, we tried to start yesterday.
We all had the whole grain, sweetened with honey waffles - AH-MAZE-ING - everyone agreed it was the best waffles ever. My kids and my dh rejected my real maple syrup, which I actually only use because I love it - and dug out the now contraband artificial maple syrup from the pantry as soon as my back was turned, the traitors. I forgot to cut up and serve the cantaloupe (could not find the honey dew at the store) with the waffles since I tripled the recipe and was busy making 10 extra waffles. So that was the first fail of the day.
Then came lunch.
Anna forgot she had a church dinner and apparently, they don't serve real food there. I forgot my mother in law had a birthday dinner at a local restaurant and there is no telling what my salad and my mushroom swiss burger were *really* made of.
It was a good think too, since I completely forgot to put the stuff in the bread maker to make the bread for the sandwiches at lunch. I brilliantly decided to make all our bread for the week instead of buying a loaf at the store - me - whose menu last week consisted of ordering take out 4 times....
Supper rolled around. Again, another brilliant decision made by me to not buy a premade item on the list but make it from scratch as well. Because, you know, if you are going to do something, you may as well give it 110%! The item is corn tortillas. I had Maseca because, hmmm I don't remember why I bought Maseca, but I had it and it needs to be used. I read a few blog posts and decided to give it a try, it did not look hard.
The dough refused to make itself into dough. it was a lot like crumbly mashed potatoes. I added more water. And more water. Then it was too sticky. So I added more Maseca. The dough and I danced for a bit until I finally had something that slightly resembled the pics in the blogs. I don't have a tortilla press so I used a plate instead. Not a pie plate but a regular plate. Not the best move. The regular plate has a lip and doesn't sit flat and therefore doesn't press the tortilla as thin as you need it. I unearthed the rolling pin and attempted to use that. It mostly worked and I got a couple of tortillas that I put in my cast iron skillet. I cooked them. They were awful. I rolled it out thinner. I could not pick the stupid things up off of the parchement paper without them falling apart. When I finally got one off and into the pan, it was still awful. After an hour and a half of messing around with it and only 3 cooked but terrible tasting corn tortillas later, I called for pizza at 7 p.m.. We ate dinner at 8 p.m.
Thank you Marcos Pizza. Sorry 100 Days of Real Food.
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