Carbs and the Holiday Weekend

Not a good combo.  Too much time for me to be able to indulge the carb craving with home made treats. 

Friday we had the traditional burgers on the grill and they were wonderful as always.  I also started my recipe that I thought I was having on Thursday but needed that 24 to 36 hours in the fridge.  I found the recipe in Baking with Julia that I've used a few times but not enough to remember that I need to read the whole recipe before I start!

I started the dough Friday around 11 or so.  It needed two risings before the fridge time.  It came together beautifully. Here you can see before rising and after.

I'd post the recipe, but really, if it takes 2 days to make, you know the recipe was 4 big pages long in the book, and I can't type that much!

My husband regularly buys bananas and apples to eat at work through the week.  Since he only was at work 2 days due to air conditioning installation supervision and the holiday, he brought fruit home.  He mentioned that I could always make banana bread. 

I wasn't in the mood for banana bread, too close to good for me, but looked in my cupcake book and found Banana Butterscotch Cupcakes.  I had everything I needed including the tiny bit of buttermilk and the butterscotch chips, so I went for it.  They are SO good.  And I still love the cupcake cookbook.  This was Saturday morning baking.

After they were done, we met Bill Hodge to get our beef order.  He is so nice and the beef is so good.  If you'er thinking about buying grass fed and finished beef, check out Hodge Ranch.  We've been buying our beef from him for several years now.  I should have taken him some cupcakes to get some out of the house, but I didn't want to take him something untested. 

Saturday was the day I could finish my foccacia baking, but not too early, had to wait the 24 to 36 hours!  And then plan to remove the dough from the fridge 1 1/2 hours before I wanted to bake.  This was a lot of planning!  I got started about 4:30.

The dough went into the fridge divided in 3 balls that then rested on the counter to warm up a little.

I have so little room in my kitchen!  Once rested, I shaped them, added fresh rosemary to two of the breads, they'll go in the freezer for later and made pizza with the other.  The lighting on the rosemary bread isn't good, but it smelled wonderful.  They are wrapped and waiting in the freezer for another day.

I added fresh basil from the garden, roasted red peppers and mozzarella to the bread.  Fantastic! 

I was a little overloaded on carbs on Sunday so when shopping I bought fresh tuna for the grill, some fresh green beans and I did roast a few potatoes with fresh rosemary.  Also excellent.  For the tuna I used a little olive oil, fresh thyme and red pepper flakes. 

Today is a farily normal day except for the corn.  We bought 36 ears yesterday so today is corn day.  I've done my menus for customers, reconciled my business account, sent off my list for my class on Saturday.  Now I need to visit my chiropractor, pick up some ice for corn day and then come home to blanch corn, cut it off the cob and place in freezer bags. 

I'm hoping for a nap before Jazzercise this evening which is before dinner.  Send good thoughts for a smooth corn day.