Well, it's time. I put 3 things in the freezer before our Florida trip: Veal stock, which was really beef stock because I couldn't locate veal bones anywhere, The pine-nut crust for my lemon tart, and the ravioli, which I previously wrote about. I did end up making more, and I got so good at rolling out that pasta by hand that I actually got 43 ravioli out of the 48 that I should have had from a pasta roller. So we have plenty of ravioli to eat. The only thing that I was a little irritated with myself over, is that I accidentally used whole wheat flour when I made the second batch. I'm so used to using it in everything that I didn't even notice until it was already made, and I wasn't about to do it again. So we're having about 5 white flour ravioli and eating our hearts out on the whole wheat ones.
These items were only supposed to spend one week in the freezer, but we had an unexpected second trip to Florida that left them in the freezer for an additional week, and well, I think it'll probably be fine. I did have to freeze my veal breast that I ordered, because I ordered that before the first Florida trip. I'm thinking that should be ok, too. I'm just not going to be a perfectionist on this one.
So, there is a bit of a hairy schedule for the week. I bought a few groceries today, because I'm making more stocks tomorrow, and fennel oil, and a balsamic glaze. These things can all keep for a few days. But I have more shopping to do, and the real cooking begins on Wednesday. Wednesday is also the day we get our chicks (I think). 15 of them.
SO, we also bought our chick feed, bulbs for our lamp, and feeders today while we were shopping. We have a chicken coop and run to finish up. I have pallets all over the back yard just waiting to be either disassembled or used as is to finish up the coop. I'll take pictures. I may have to post all this stuff after the fact because I'm getting tired just thinking about it right now.
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