Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Woah! Nesting, much?

I'm pregnant, and not quite 13 weeks along... but my morning sickness has gone down and so I believe I'm in nesting mode.  Why?  Let me count the ways...

  1. Friday last week I baked 1 dozen fruit bran muffins... strawberry and blueberry (they were tasty)
  2. Monday I baked blueberry crisp... with fresh berries I got at 50% off which were already on sale for $4 for almost 1kg.  (that was tasty too... baked goods don't seem to last long here)
  3. Tuesday I baked 5 dozen buns, freezing over 3 dozen of them.
  4. Today I made a batch of lasagna, freezing 1/2 and having half for supper.
  5. Today I cooked an extra lb of beef for perishky I'm planning on making on Friday
  6. Today I used the last of the blueberries and made a blueberry pie (I've never made one before), then proceeded to peel, core, and chop 9 crab apples and 2 regular ones, and made 3 apple pies.  I think I've made an apple pie once before, but it's been forever (cause I hate making pie crust... and here I made for 4 two crust pies... at once... I'm insane).
  7. Tomorrow's plan is to make mashed potatoes for supper with enough extras for the perishky on Friday.  I also plan to bake cookies.
  8. Friday I'll be making the perishky.

Ways counted?  A little much, perhaps... but I started by power cleaning my oven with baking soda paste last week Wednesday, and so the kitchen mayhem continues.  Unfortunately, due to pie spillage, I need to clean my oven again.  Ah well.  Now that I know how, it won't take long.  :)

Plus... lately, it feels like autumn to me.  Fall means cooking, baking, pies, etc.  I'm not sure why.  And it's only mid August.  This is insane.

And here's a pic of today's pies...
Should have put the tinfoil on the three apple, but that tinfoil did NOT want to cooperate on the blueberry, so I left it off.  Hate working with something that won't stay!