Oh Sandy,
We could have the funniest cooking show ever! Now I'm the one who is laughing!
Your poor puppy, that must have been a surprise! Salt, we must remember to use the salt, and not nearly as messy as the fire extinguisher. Aleah and I were laughing so hard, didn't help at all with choking on the smoke. Of course she though it was a great idea to take a picture and send it to Dan. Without knowing she was doing this my thoughts were, "Oh man, better not tell Dan, he'll put me away for sure!"
I like my oatmeal with cinnamon, ginger, flax seed and a half container of fruit flavored Oikoes Zero, but your ideas definately make it sound like dessert!
Along the vien of home cooking, I'm having the family over for Chinese dinner. Was going to get a start on it last night because I also was going to have Tiny over several hours before dinner. We really like the sweet and sour sauce bought in the store. Trying to be more sugar conscious I looked up a recipe. Was going to substitue the surgar with stevia. I've thrown together some before and really liked it... This time however, decided to follow a recipe for plum sauce. Going against my instincts I added the spices it called for, but not even close to the same amounts! It looked and smelled delicious, took one taste and my eyes began watering, had to breath deeply several times to catch my breath! Dissapointed, but not ready to be beaten, I poured a about a third of the sauce into another pot, added a bunch of pureed canned fruit to it, tried again... added about three more cans of fruit.
To make a long story short I have two pots of spicy and spicer sweet and sour sauce! Dave called me from the store saying the kind we usually buy doesn't really have that much sugar in it, I caved(sigh).
If you know anyone who need some really, really spicy plum sauce for their Chinese dinner, I know where they can get it,... a lot of it!!! But, hey! I didn't start anything on fire cooking it!... unless you count my mouth of course.
Kim