Thanks to the birthday generosity of the expectant Palagis, I have $50 to spend at Borders books. The Chef has been requesting that I cook more vegetables or vegetarian meals for the kids, so I bought a vegetarian family cookbook. I am hoping that it has good ideas for vegetarian meals that don't rely too heavily on asian flavors that the kids may not like.
My first attempts at cooking consisted solely of breakfast (waffles, to be specific), so one recipe I found right away is called banana fritters. There is no actual frying involved (yea!) and the recipe looks pretty yummy and fairly healthy, but....
it calls for pastry flour. Now, I did some research online, and King Arthur Flour says that pastry flour has a different protein percentage. I already have King Arthur White Whole Wheat flour (which I LOVE) and King Arthur unbleached all-purpose flour (for making bread), regular old-fashioned whole wheat flour and regular white flour, but so far I do not have any pastry flour.
I also have four kinds of sugar (semi-processed regular granulated sugar, powdered sugar, brown sugar and turbinado sugar) and now, apparently, I am on my way to having lots of flour too. Oh, I take that back, I have five kinds of sugar; I forgot superfine sugar.
My goodness! Who knew cooking would require so many kinds of sugars and flours??!!
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