Frohe Weihnachten!
This morning it’s grilled cheese sandwiches. These sandwiches are no ordinary sandwiches, however. They are made with GIANT bread. It says farmstyle bread on the package. I think the farmer that made this loaf may have been a giant, of the jack-and-the-beanstalk persuasion. This bread could be made of jack’s bones!
Total Time: 1/2 hour
active time: 20 minutes, if you just woke up like me
cooking time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
1 slice farmstyle bread
butter
cheese
an apple (to make it seem healthy)
Arrange your ingredients out so you can take a nice picture. Oh wait, that’s just me.
Get out one slice of the bread and marvel at it’s hugemongousness. This slice could feed a starving family of four!
Ah, the things you can do while procrastinating studying for an exam tomorrow at 9am. You can’t study if you don’t have a snack though!
Today, we will roast chestnuts on an open fire! Well, OK, no fire. We will roast them in the CLOSED oven. Well, there might be fire. But it won’t be romantic fire, it’ll be the bad kind.
Also, we’ll be roasting almonds as well. My first attempt doesn’t work out so well, because I cooked the almonds for the same amount of time as the chestnuts. Almonds need to be cooked about half as long!
Total Time: 50 minutes (of pure procrastination)
cooking: 40 minutes (20-30 for chestnuts, 10 for almonds)
active: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
raw chestnuts
raw almonds
salt, to taste
Grab a cutting board. We are going to have to cut the chestnuts so that they don’t explode.
Chestnuts have a habit of rolling around, allowing you to cut your fingers off. To avoid this, put a thick towel (or a doubled over thin towel) on top of the cutting board.
There is a hard outer shell to the chestnut. This is what we will have to cut. Chestnuts that are very soft or very hard are probably rotten. Use chestnuts that are firm.
Using a serrated knife, cut an X into each chestnut. You have to cut through the outer shell.
I made banana muffins the other night. They were awesome, but sadly I didn’t take any pictures.
In my mind, though, it looked a little something like this:
Here are the recipes that we have posted to date, for your convenience.
