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the_rck::grumbles::
It's not big on the cosmic scale, but... Delia wanted to make cookies this afternoon. She asked to and begged to. I knew we didn't have any chocolate chips, so I cruised a copy of Joy of Cooking, looking for something easy to make. I settled on butterscotch brownies because they're simple and don't require complicated ingredients.
I got the butter melted and the brown sugar dissolved and then discovered that the one or two eggs I remembered having is actually zero eggs. ::bangs head::
Delia and I could, in theory, head out by bus to get eggs. It would only take about an hour and a half, at most. If we got the timing just right, it might only be an hour. (I'd have to look up the buses to be sure of the best case timing. There's an in-bound bus once every half an hour, but I don't know how long the lag is between the out-bound that would drop us off and the in-bound that would take us home.) We'd also have to cross a couple of busy streets at a busy time of day without lights.
It's not happening.
We could wait for Scott to pick some up on his way home. He's working late (unless we get lucky and something changes) and so won't be home until nearly eight, four hours from now. I don't want to have him detour because (a) it's been a long enough day already and (b) he's going to have to work on the kitchen sink when he gets home. The drainage pipes are leaking again so that we can't use the sink. It's an easy enough fix for someone whose hands work right (meaning not me), but it takes time.
::grumbles:: I had started looking forward to those cookies.
Thank goodness I've got somewhere to vent.
It's not big on the cosmic scale, but... Delia wanted to make cookies this afternoon. She asked to and begged to. I knew we didn't have any chocolate chips, so I cruised a copy of Joy of Cooking, looking for something easy to make. I settled on butterscotch brownies because they're simple and don't require complicated ingredients.
I got the butter melted and the brown sugar dissolved and then discovered that the one or two eggs I remembered having is actually zero eggs. ::bangs head::
Delia and I could, in theory, head out by bus to get eggs. It would only take about an hour and a half, at most. If we got the timing just right, it might only be an hour. (I'd have to look up the buses to be sure of the best case timing. There's an in-bound bus once every half an hour, but I don't know how long the lag is between the out-bound that would drop us off and the in-bound that would take us home.) We'd also have to cross a couple of busy streets at a busy time of day without lights.
It's not happening.
We could wait for Scott to pick some up on his way home. He's working late (unless we get lucky and something changes) and so won't be home until nearly eight, four hours from now. I don't want to have him detour because (a) it's been a long enough day already and (b) he's going to have to work on the kitchen sink when he gets home. The drainage pipes are leaking again so that we can't use the sink. It's an easy enough fix for someone whose hands work right (meaning not me), but it takes time.
::grumbles:: I had started looking forward to those cookies.
Thank goodness I've got somewhere to vent.
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Date: 2007-08-06 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-06 10:23 pm (UTC)::sighs:: Now I have a bowl with melted margarine mixed with brown sugar. It's very tasty and tempting but really would be better made into something else.
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Date: 2007-08-06 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-06 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-07 02:22 am (UTC)That's one of the reasons I keep soy protein powder or "soy flour" around. It can sub for eggs in many applications in a pinch. I have very successfully made pancakes with no eggs by using it, and other baked or griddled things. If that is something your diets allow, which I am not sure about, it might be a thing to try.
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Date: 2007-08-08 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-08 02:13 am (UTC)I keep some of those little boxes of pasteurized eggs in the freezer for just such an emergency. Egg Beaters or Just Egg Whites or whatever. Barring power outages, it can stay in the freezer forever, and you can thaw it out in the microwave pretty quickly. Also, because the eggs are pasteurized, it's safe to eat the batter. :)
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Date: 2007-08-08 06:52 pm (UTC)