GIGANTIC MISTAKES

As I mentioned not too long ago, and included pics, I bought a bucket of chicken gravy.  A bucket.  A BIG bucket and to date I have used twelve tablespoons of it.  That bucket is definitely going to outlive me.

I don't remember if I mentioned this a long time ago but when I moved in here a couple of years or more ago I bought a fifty pound bag of flour at Costco, pre covid days.  I need a minute here just to remember going into Costco with no mask and no worries.  I so took that for granted.  Not any more......

Anyway, back to the flour.  When I got home and opened it to make bread....it was sugar.  Fifty pounds of white sugar.  Fifty huge endless pounds.  We don't even use white sugar in this house.  Nothing against white sugar but we are black coffee drinkers, no cereal, I only cook and bake with brown sugar, (and I go through a lot of brown sugar). In other words when I die, and the kids clean out the house there will be a thirty pound bucket of chicken gravy in the kitchen corner and a fifty pound bag of white sugar minus two cups I did take out once, buried under coats and stuff in the front closet. But then.....

I was doing my usual recipe browsing this morning.  And guess what I came across!!!!!????  I found a very simple recipe on how to make brown sugar!!!!  You just thoroughly mix a tablespoon of molasses into one cup of white sugar and voila!!!  Brown sugar!! Makes sense..you are just putting back what they took out to make the white sugar.

  And that is what I am going to do from now on.  I have the perfect sealable container already fit into the overly full baking drawer and I shall keep it full of brown sugar, using up that fifty pounds of white!!!  Now to figure something magical to use pounds of gravy on!

As I have mentioned we buy our groceries at Walmart, curbside pickup.  You can't get everything but it's close enough.  I just went to Amazon to maybe order molasses.  The regular container was fourteen dollars!!!  That was the cheapest!  So I went to the Walmart site and the same one there is 1.97.  Stupid amazon!  What a rip off.

Slowly but surely we are getting the room downstairs ready for Ange.  Mostly it just involves removing everything.  Until Graeme has vacated the room and stored his stuff out in the shed we won't be able to complete the job.  But I really would almost rather have Graeme and all his stuff here than an empty room.  I know it's necessary but he will be missed. 

Food talk:  I froze a bunch of Pilsbury crescent rolls...you know, the ones that scare the hell out of you if they explode as you peel the paper off of it. I thawed a couple of them out and made some pretty interesting crescents.  Yesterday I made one of them up...putting grated cheese and a sausage in it.  I had a whole load of sausages left over from breakfast.  They were delicious.  Today I made the same thing but this time I put a Xmas gherkin from a jar Monte got for Xmas in each one.  Boy were they ever good!  They would make a good hors d'eurve.  Yesterday I also made egg bites for the first time.  I bought a couple of containers of liquid egg.  I filled the muffin tins with crisped up bacon, onion, jalapeño and grated old cheddar.  They turned out great!  These are good for Monte who happens to be low carbing right now.  He loved them!  But a pain in the patoot to get out of the pan.

Anyway, that's it for today.  Check labels people, that's my current advice!  Stay safe and happy.  TTYL