DAY ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF COOKING COURSE

Well, this evening I heard a beeping.  It was a weird beeping and not the normal "your phone is beeping or you set an alarm or your smoke alarm needs a battery" beep.  I just had solar panels installed so I was thinking "oh no not the solar system".  I went around the house trying to locate the home of the intermittent beep.  Finally I found it downstairs from a carbon monoxide detector.  It is a plug in type with a back up battery.  I thought okay the battery has died.  I changed the battery and it was still going off. Now I got nervous.  

I was nervous because I just finished cooking with the oven door propped open for almost 2 hours.  I thought what if that caused the carbon monoxide detector to go off?  I have a very old Wedgewood stove/oven probably from the 1940's or 1950's.  I love it but I did get a little nervous when the carbon monoxide detector went off.  

Turns out the carbon monoxide detector had just lived it's life.  I figured it out by putting my new carbon monoxide detector downstairs and it didn't go off and then I put the old detector outside and it was still going off.  It was clear there was no carbon monoxide.  The detector just died.  I also called my brother just to check and he agreed that I was not going to died from carbon monoxide any time soon.  

I cooked Raw Bread today.  I had to clean my new dehydrator before any work could start.  

First, I had to make more almond milk to get the nut pulp.  The nut pulp is used to make the raw bread.  I mixed the ingredients for the raw bread and added thyme from my garden.  I put it in the oven to dehydrate.  Once it was "dry" I cut it into slices and put it in my dehydrator to finish it up. I put olallieberry jam on one, almond butter and roasted sesame seeds on another, vegan cream cheese and sun-dried tomato on another and vegan gouda cheese and olive on the last one.  The raw bread is nutty and really good.  It isn't dry but moist. 

Until tomorrow...