If the day goes as I think it will today, I should have the Waste Not Whatnots quilt top finished. I'll say one thing about it: it's given me a good reason to procrastinate on vacuuming the downstairs. It is dropping lots of black threads everywhere on the light carpeting. Yesterday, I had good intentions of dusting and vacuuming the downstairs, but then realized I'd be wasting time. Yeah, sure. That's what I thought. You probably thought the same thing, and you just didn't mention it.
So here's how the day went yesterday. Here's where I'd left it the day before:
So I added a row of blocks across the top section. That took most of the morning.
As I mentioned yesterday, we've been sticking to the Cooking Light Diet for the past couple of weeks. I don't mind dieting, but I do miss baking terribly. So then, King Arthur, always in tune to my baking neediness, wrote about this product on their blog recently. To-wit:
"[A] sugar replacement that not only tastes like normal sugar (no unpleasant aftertaste), but also comes close to matching the texture of treats made with regular cane sugar."
Okay, and so I wasted not two seconds ordering some off their website. It arrived yesterday...FedEx, no less. Obviously, King Arthur knows a baking emergency when they hear of one.
So you can see my problem, right? Now I have this new product to test, and diet concerns all in the same sentence. Last night I got an idea to try using it in one of my untested desserts for two. Perusing through my database, I eliminated most of them because they included other kinds of added sugar in the form of brown sugar, molasses, honey, or crystallized ginger. I was looking for something that included only granulated sugar so that I could try out this "alternative," unvarnished by other sweet stuff. As for the calories in such a dessert...hm.
Okay, so I found this "Recipe Calorie and Nutrition Calculator" from Very Well Fit online some time back. I entered in all the ingredients. (I'll warn you, you must delete any "descriptors" from your list of ingredients, such as "melted" or "finely diced," or it won't work.) Entering the ingredients, and omitting the sugar substitute (zero calories), it calculated the calories in this recipe to be:
10 comments:
Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it. ~ Mary Tyler Moore
Liking the new quilt--you are so talented. And I can "hear" the excitement for a baking day :-)
I will be very excited, on pins and needles no less, waiting for the no-sugar-sugar report. I end up eating everything I bake since Jack is so disciplined, and that has had predictable ramifications during this no-company pandemic.
I don't bake nor do I buy sweets for the house - if they aren't here, I don't eat them. I like the new quilt. Maybe some applique' circles in those empty spots.
I like the quilt and some machine embroidery with coloured thread would look great in those spaces. I love baking but I don't want to put on weight since John and I are dieting. It's lucky son and youngest daughter live at home and love cakes.
Is there something different about your blog? Enjoy it very much.
I think your furry inspectors are guiding you in the right direction on that quilt! I wonder if....just a thought....those two areas of black you're concerned about could be filled with a couple more slivers....but offset them and use two different colours (or even 3, because 'they...you know, the infamous 'they' that think they know these things....suggest that things should be in odd numbers to please the eye).
Re sugar substitutes - I'm always suspicious of the chemicals that are in such things. Will be interested in hearing your taste-testing report. We still have dessert but only on the weekends and only a very small amount. Instead of Resident Chef making a pie, he makes tarts and freezes them. We can indulge in one tart which is much less than a piece of pie. And he makes chocolate fudge and we have one small square each on one weekend night - that's enough to satisfy my chocolate craving and we don't feel deprived.
I'm looking forward to the blueberry cake report! You are making good use of the leftover HST's. Happy stitching!
I'm curious how the cakes tasted with that alternative. I'm chuckling over your comment about quilting that quilt in about five years or so. Ha!
I'm also curious about the taste results of the blueberry cakes and also it's chemical makeup. I don't bake any more because my husband can't resist eating whatever baked good is around and he definitely shouldn't be eating any of it. I, on the other hand, can make a box of GS thin mints last a whole year (but only if I hide the box). That's quite a fabric puzzle you have put together with help from your feline assistants, of course.
Pat
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