@ossobuco,
Excellent site, Osso. Did you see the part about making your own buttermilk? We used to do that. Fill a mason jar 2/3 full of cream, seal the lid tight and while holding the jar with one hand you tip it upside down and then, after a slight pause, right side up. (You're supposed to say "Come, butter, come. -pause for one beat- Come butter come." Nice rhythm, steady does the churning.)
It takes about 15-20 minutes for the lump of butter to appear. You pour off the buttermilk into a bowl. If you are making Irish Bread like my Kerry-mother did, you would cover the bowl and let it set out all day to sour juuuuussstt a bit. Then use that for your Old Country Bread, as it was known around our house.
Mom baked hers in a cast iron skillet, just like her mom and her mom.
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B: oatmeal, a bagel, coffee
L: chef salad - ham/cheese/lettuce/ drop of olive oil, apple juice
E: ran two miles in the rain
S: tea and no milk Irish bread (brown)
D: chicken leg/thigh, salad
193.6/6.3 more than a year ago/ trendline is down.
Ten days to the Marathon.
