Vyxxan's Virtual Venture

I actually took a photo this time of the finished rolls! I’m funny, tho… I had to come to my own website to read my recipe, lol! I tossed the paper where I’d written my adjustments after I typed it in here.

Need to revise the recipe, bit less milk I think. I kept adding flour, adding flour. Dough wasn’t all that sticky when I turned it back into the bowl to rise, but after rising it was VERY sticky. Might be the humidity level in the house… we’ve got the humidifiers going full blast.

These rolls didn’t turn out as nice as the previous ones… the dough got to rise for a lot longer and it was so sticky that I didn’t form the rolls… just plopped chunks of dough into the pan. I think they could have stood another 3 to 5 min. in the oven, too! That’s another thing I need to revise in the recipe, the cooking time. If you make big rolls like these, they need more time in the oven… 20 to 25 min.

But they still taste great, and I got the other pork roast out of the freezer and thawed/warmed it. We STILL have red cabbage slaw left over… that “4 servings” on the original recipe was a typo, for sure. What we don’t eat tonight, well, I’m gonna have to toss it. Getting too soggy, plus I have a thing about leftovers in the fridge too long… not allowed!

While I was out at the grocery store this morning buying yeast, I also got some cube steak to make MM’s favorite sandwiches… well, my version of em. I’ll do that tomorrow some time… it was going to be our dinner tonight, but Ron reminded me of the pork roast. I was going to make the potato rolls, and thought the cube steak would be great on them. I was craving bread today. Probably need those carbs to help keep me warm when I have to be outside!

And speaking of outside… I walked the dogs in the 8 degrees or whatever it got to today. Bundled up in the quilted overalls, underneath that: jeans, 2 shirts, quilted vest. Over the overalls: hooded sweat jacket and another jacket over that. Hat, gloves and a fleece scarf. Hiking boots instead of my normal athletic shoes. Hey, they do say to do layers… I had a lot on. Go out to get the dogs and the pups head for the house! No, c’mon kids… we are doing walkies. OH! Pups came running back to join Sadie and I. We did our normal walk down around the pond (frozen so well I bet I could ice skate on it) and came back up to the house. I wasn’t intending on bringing the dogs in at that point… Ron was sleeping. But BuddyMack went to the door and refused to come down to his part of the yard, so we all came inside for a while.

Just in case you are worried about my dogs being out in this frigid weather: they have heated houses. Heat lamps that are on constantly in this kind of weather and I check the temps in their houses. BuddyMack’s house is warm, about 55. The girls house is a bit cooler at 53, but they have each other to keep warm. The worst thing is keeping BuddyMack in water he can drink. That heated water bowl is looking better every day… we were worried about him eating the cord, but I don’t think that would be a problem the way they have a metal spring over the cord now. Going out to knock the ice out of his water bowl the past few days is a constant thing… and I never see the punk drink any water! Girls don’t have a problem… I keep their water inside their house since it’s so large. We’ll probably be doing that for BuddyMack, too… Ron is going to build him a better house, one like the girls and the cats have.

I was worried about the cats last night. They also have a heated house (up on the porch), but it didn’t seem to be getting very warm. Their water dishes are inside that house, and the water was frozen! I gave them some old clothing to lay on, replaced the broken water bottle that was pouring water all over the floor of the house…. and stuffed the ventilation holes in that house with cut up rags. Still wasn’t warming. The poor cats all pile up on each other on one shelf… but a couple of them moved to the other shelf when I put the clothing down. Still, it’s out of the wind, and they do have fur coats. Ron fixed the problem today: he put in a bigger wattage heat lamp. For some reason we only had a 125 watt lamp in there, and that wasn’t enough. Now it has a 250, and the temp is more like what the dogs have. Silly cats, tho… they thought rags in vent holes were toys… those are gone. Sigh.

Lastly… for Christmas my sister Val sent me a set of flashlights with a couple headlamps. I’d mentioned walking the dogs in the dark here on the blog. So, I had Ron take a photo of me wearing one. I look very tired, and I’m wearing my dog walking jackets, but I didn’t just come in from walking them. I look work week tired.

I do know these will be handy… Thanks again, Val! (and happy birthday, too… hope your cookbook gets there soon)

hugs,
Vyx

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