Day 20: Cooklies & bread

My pantry is starting to look emptier. It's rather exciting.. watching the shelves have less and less on them. I'm going to go through what's left in a few days and gather together a bag of stuff for the Food Pantry. There are some things I'm just never going to cook, like the old boxes of Hamburger Helper. I think I'll wash the shelves of my refrigerator too. They're rather nasty, and when they're empty will be the perfect timing to wash them.

As the food in the pantry dwindles I'm seeing what items I seem to have an overabundance of. One thing I'm really noticing is that I have a ton of flour. There are two 5 lb bags of white and one 5 lb bag of wheat in my pantry and I had a glass jar full of white (holds ~5 lbs) that I work from in my cabinet. That's 20 lbs of flour. Why on earth did I think I'd need 20 lbs of flour?? Ah well. Because of this, I've been trying to find ways to use the flour. Last night I decided to make cookies and bread with this flour. We made Snickerdoodles, Sugar cookies and Light Oat Bread.

I modified the bread recipe to use 1 c. whole wheat flour and 2 c. white flour. I also used 2 tsp. of yeast because my yeast is rather old and I didn't know if it would even work. The bread is really yummy. I think I'm going to make another loaf today.. or maybe I'll try a new recipe. You can't see the oats in it at all.

As for the cookies.. sigh. The Snickerdoodles burned because I was nursing Peter Mike when the timer went off. He was still awake so I decided to hold off on baking the sugar cookies so I didn't burn them too. The dough is still hanging out in my fridge.

I finally found something to use the Orange Marmalade in. The Marmalade has been sitting in my pantry for quite a while.. I can't even remember why I bought it in the first place, but this recipe I want to try... ohhh. I think it's going to be very worth it. I bet you're wondering what I plan to make. This will be my first experience with the Pioneer Woman's recipes, and I'm go ing to try Orange Marmalade Rolls. Don't they look amazing? Like... I think I'm drooling right now. Mmmmm.... I do have to buy some ingredients for this recipe. Whole milk, butter, and OJ. I think it's going to be worth it. I might gain 10 lbs just thinking about the recipe, but yeah. It will be worth it.