How many times do we ask each other, what day is it!!! On top of being retired, no particular given place to go, people to see or things to do it is hard to remember what day it is. Unless we have an appointment and then the phone lets me know something is going on that day. Staying at Holden Beach is even more difficult to keep track of the days........unless........it is Wednesday. Two events that we must remember. One is not so exciting, set the garbage out. The other one we look forward to, $5.00 Sushi Day at the Food Lion. How pathetic is that for being the spice of our life? Last year I was in the Food Lion at Holden picking out some Sushi. The Oriental man and his wife came over and said, if you come in on Wednesdays all of the Sushi is $5 and it would pay to buy it then. So, this is the second winter that $5 Sushi Wednesday is our go to. It is all we eat for supper on Wednesday. 10 Sushi each, so I guess we could say $10 is a tasty cheap meal. Plus, no cooking and only 2 plates and 2 forks to wash.
We do not eat raw Sushi. A few weeks ago we picked up one with raw and did not notice until we got home. Being a little braver I said, I will try it, maybe it is good and just sounds awful. I popped one in and chewed a couple bites...........yuck about the third bite down on it I felt the mushy nasty raw tuna. I spit it out so fast! NEVER will I give it a try again. For the ones that like raw, have at it.
To keep Cook'n by the Creek memories going way down south I made Eleanor Stavisky's Molasses Cookies yesterday. They have been mentioned quite a few times since December, I finally decided to give it a try. You see the range is electric here and it just seems nothing tastes as good cooking and baking with electric. I can't seem to master timing and correct temperature settings. Once something is done on the cook top it has to be removed from the burner because the coils stay hot after it is turned off! Not like good old gas. Shut the flame off and all heat stops. What a pain electric is. The cookies turned out ok, not the best but ok. They didn't seem to get as big and soft as usual. Another thing I tried and failed was my sour dough bread. The starter was perfect and ready but for some reason the electric oven does not allow for moisture like a gas oven does. Out went my starter and I will start another batch when I get back to Clara. Nothing better than a loaf of crusty sour dough bread with a good crumb. By crumb I mean when you cut open the cooled loaf it is full of air holes for all the butter to melt into. YUM The piece on top of the loaf sticking up is called an ear.......that is a good thing. It means the sourdough did what it was suppose to do. You never know until you take the cover off the dutch oven for it brown for the last 15 minutes. It is the awww moment or....crap moment. I have had a few crap moments too.
