Ugh!

[redbird]

I was baking apple cakelings. I haven't done this in a while, because it involves beating one egg into butter and sugar with a hand whisk; the way my shoulder felt, I won't be doing it often.

I'd mixed everything up, including some candied ginger and the apple. I measured out the flour, and poured it through the sieve into the rest of the ingredients.

There were insects of some kind left in the sieve. Wriggling. So clearly alive, no possibility that I was misidentifying them.

And I'd already put the flour into the other ingredients.

I'd have had to start over, with a fresh bag of flour. Except we don't trust the store downstairs for flour--canned goods, yes. Milk, which comes from the dairy in sealed bottles, yes. Not flour. Which would have involved a longish walk on a windy night, and starting over from the beginning.

Half the point of cakelings is that they're easy. Normally.

cattitude is getting his birthday candle in a brownie we picked up at the Greenmarket this morning.

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[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

I just had to throw out everything in my cupboards that might be eaten by creepy crawlies. There were little piles of what looked like sawdust under various bags (even under my cutting board!) and we are still plagued with tiny flies. They are either drain flies or fruit flies or somethng similar. Their little corpses keep appearing in the freezer, so I suspect they laid their eggs in the damp mess the fridge had become after the power went out, and now they are hatching merely to die of the cold. We are leaving lots of soapy water in the sink, as we've heard this attracts them to their deaths.

Many moons ago, Joe was making chili at my house and after he had measured out the red pepper flakes and dumped them into the pot I noticed they were moving. He hadn't stirred them in yet, so we were able to scrape them off the top and go buy fresh. No one else ate it but us, so I feel justified in not wasting the entire pot.