Friday, October 12, 2018

Changed Our Minds

No bike ride today.  We were going to take the bike to town to do a couple of things—mostly just to take a ride—but after pickleball practice I was too tired.  A sky full of dark clouds made Duane nervous about riding the bike, and he was easy to convince that we should skip it today. 

Instead, I made another bracelet for my sister.  This one was a “dressy” one in fall colors.  I had it ready to mail before I thought of taking a picture. Hmmm.  I also put away all of my bead stuff and prepared my work space for sewing again. 

Since I had time for it, I decided to try a new (for me) mac-n-cheese recipe.  I usually make the Wegley recipe which calls for Colby longhorn cheese.  This was my first stab at creamy white mac-n-cheese with seafood.  It was pretty good, except I put too much flour in the Béchamel sauce, which made it too thick to be very creamy.  I also thought it a bit salty, but a bit of lime juice took care of that, and brought out the flavor of the cheeses.  I used a combination of gruyere, gouda, asiago (in place of sharp white cheddar), and parmesan.  For seafood, I used shrimp and small scallops.  All in all pretty successful.

Rain scheduled tomorrow.

Louise and Duane


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