We've been busy...
*trip to Muskegon to visit with J's family and go to a baby shower, Gerald is not a very good rider after 2 hours... sort of turns the car ride into hell.
*swimming classes! Next week J is coming with to take pictures - it will be the only time a picture of me in my bathing suit will appear on the blog...EVER.
*we were supposed to go to the pumpkin patch on Wed, but it rained :( so we just went to play group instead.
*last night I drove up to Ann Arbor to attend a baking class at Zingermann's. It was awesome! I would highly recommend a class there. I took the class with my mom, we learned how to make German pretzels, and we used lye! I made a dozen pretzels and brought them home; we had some for breakfast and some for dinner and I took a few over to the neighbor's because she watched Gerald this morning while I had a dentist appointment. I learned a few interesting things - we used leaf lard, which was new to me. It's the lard that surrounds the pig's liver (or maybe it was kidney?), and it is a liquid at room temperature. It is also the purest lard in the pig. And we also had a great discussion on the different flours available, and another about yeast. So fun, so informative, so yummy!
5 comments:
I hear you on the hellish car rides. We will not travel unless it is during nap time.
hmm. glad it was fun. and glad it wasn't me. if it has more than, say, 7 ingreedients, i'm not cooking it. i would eat the german pretzels though...
mmm.. sounds good. I love baking. :) Wish that I could bake more.
Can't wait to see swim lesson pics. I still haven't had the girls signed up for that, but definitely next year and maybe even in the spring.
Mmmmm, pretzels.....now that is all I will think about!
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