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i caught a bad (click on the link and you can listen to van's song while reading) stomachbug tuesday night. actually, i suppose i caught it from my friend monday night and it hit me early wednesday morning. 4 am. it was short but intense. i haven't felt that sick in quite awhile. i even had to call my doctor to be reassured that i wasn't dying. (which he did very well. he's so good.) i spent all day wednesday sleeping, though i did manage to finish my heart square that night. a friend's daughter had knee surgery and squares were collected to make a scarf. unfortunately, i didn't finish mine in time. instead it's being made into a lavender pillow and going to be sent off as a valentine's get well gift. c and i have also been reading the caroline series by maria d. wilkes. we're up to _little clearing in the woods_. it's the paperback book on the right. underneath it is a beautiful and old edition of laura ingalls wilder's little house in the big woods.
slowly today i've been feeling stronger and been able to eat more. though i haven't been able to eat quite the same things as c and k. here they are making "croque monsieur" from the recipe in our around the world cookbook.
i asked my friend for an easter sweet bread recipe. she emailed me back that after checking with her grandmother's recipe, she realized it called for 5 pounds of flour (she said she forgot that her grandmother was baking for the entire town of pawtucket, rhode island!). instead, she suggested that i check out emeril lagasse's portuguese easter sweet bread recipe. he's half portuguese and she has had success with several of his recipes. since it was 2 am in the morning i briefly perused his recipe and printed it out. after shutting down the computer, (everyone was sleeping), i realized that his recipe called for 5 pounds of flour also! what is the matter with these portuguese???? they're worse than us crazy italians! . . cooking for entire villages at once . . sheesh. well, i halved it . . (it's 2 am, i'm not thinking very clearly) and i came to the part where i added my second cup of flour as instructed . . i looked in my bowl . . and of course it was soup . . i looked at the recipe and reread . . "add the second cup of flour and THEN THE REST OF THE FLOUR . . " hmm . . the rest of . . yes! half of 5 pounds . . 2 1/2 pounds . . ohh mama mia, papa pia . . how much is already in??? 1/2 pound? ay yi yi . . in went my whole jar of white unbleached flour . . . . then i emptied half of the whole wheat . . . . . . somehow it all rose beautifully into a giant . . blob! i'm lucky it didn't eat ME . .
of course it's the most delicious easter sweet bread i've ever eaten! 
