I Don't want the World to See Me

I decided to take pics as I made onion rings a few nights ago. These are incredibly easy, and also very yummy if you, like me, prefer onion rings without all of that thick breading surrounding them.

And I also wanted to check out the new scrapbook. Uploading and organizing from there was really easy. And supposedly this will keep the pictures from being huge...so, fingers crossed!

( Onwards! )

I've been trying to find a good onion ring recipe for over a year. I don't get to make them too often because they make such a mess + time consuming since you can only cook a few at a time because of the batter.

My previous favorite was using a 7-Up batter (soda+flour+baking soda, I think), but they cooked so fast that the onion inside didn't cook as much as I would have liked.

New fav recipe:

1 med onion. Cut the rings really thin, as thin as you can get them. Remove the few smallish rings, then put a break in the rings. Soak them in buttermilk (or a cup of milk+teaspoon of vinegar) for about 20 minutes. Dunno if the time matters much. Or even if it has to be buttermilk

Then I get a cup and a half of flour and mix in some spices (garlic&onion powder, chili powder, salt, etc).

Shake off milk and dunk in the flour. Coat well. I stacked them all on a plate, then transferred to another plate to get rid of as much loose flour as possible.

Heated oil to a notch past medium. I used half a thing of oil.

Toss all the onions in at the same time. (First time I did this, I got oil everywhere, like in a perfect circle around the pot, so find a way to lower them all in, or get a very deep pot. If they don't all go in at same time, they will cook really fast. Like 30 seconds for a single one.

Stir them around and try to turn them as best as possible until they start to turn brown. Took about 3-4 minutes. Scoop them out and put on a papertoweled plate. Sprinkle with some seasoning if you want. I love Lowry's Seasoning salt.

Eat.

Mom says I am limited to doing this one time a month because of the mess *pouts*
Might try to take pictures next time

I made mini loaves of white bread and cinnamon bread. Took pics, but I never uploaded them. Oops :)

2 white, 4 cinnamon--rising


In the oven:


Minus one white (yummy):


Just the 4 cinnamon:

My name is Amy, and this has been the longest day of my life

*cough*

Rewind to earlier today. Kitchen. Flour and dough, everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but damn close!
Tip: When making dough, don't be stupid like me and add an extra cup of water!
I used the breadmachine to make some dough for dinner rolls. I had to stop the damn thing 30 minutes early because it was oozing dough everywhere. Was afraid I would run out of flour as I tried to get it so it would stop sticking to me!!
After I finally got the dough into rolls and raising in the oven, I took a break to hop on the computer. I was || close to going insane at the mess. (fortunately, both parents were gone at the time)
I sent an e-mail to michelleann68 about the attacking dough, and she wrote me a little drabble that had me giggling and gave me some added strength to go tackle the mess. Here's the H/W drabble she wrote me: http://michelleann68.livejournal.com/39067.html

I had the dough raise for almost an hour and bake for about 40 minutes. It took me all that time to clean off the cutting board that I used, to scrape out the breadpan, and wip away all the dough from inside the machine, by the heating element. I could have made 3 or 4 more rolls with all the dough I tracked down.

And after all that...guess what? They tasted decent! Bit dry, but not bad! Mom and Dad were leery of eating them, but they enjoyed them as well, hehe :)

Now, I want to do it again, if only to think 'OMG! This is easy when done right!!'


My arms are sore. I was shooting my BB gun with Dad earlier and I have the hardest time cocking it (whoever laughs at that owes me a drabble! :P). I'm a decent shot with it, but I miss my old one even though the sites were screwy and I had to aim down and to the right of my targets. Got so use to shooting that way. Hard to actually 'aim' at the target now lol.


After today, I was starting to wish I had been scheduled to work 5 hours. At least I would get 50 bucks out of it and be spared--*points in general direction of kitchen*