I'm continuing my month of not buying food in boxes, but I spent most of the day craving Cheeze-Its and looking at the empty box in my trash can. I guess if I'm going to continue to snack I'm going to have to work for it.

After I did my primary voting today I made a fresh batch of butter and grated an entire hunk of cheese into oblivion. My arms are killing me, but if I keep up the 40 minute grating and cream shaking sessions I going to have some guns by summer.

I followed this recipe from Eating Cleveland, but made a few changes: I left out the cayenne pepper, used mild cheddar instead of sharp, and halved the ingredients. Also, I don't have a food processor, so I cut the ingredients together just as I would for a pie crust. The dough is quite loose and crumbly when all of the ingredients are combined. I added a few drops of really cold water to help it stick together during rolling.



I rolled the dough as thin as I could get it and still have the crackers stay intact, which was a little under 1/8 of an inch. The crackers certainly puff up in the oven, so they'll be much thicker after cooking.



I had the perfect cookie cutter for this task.

Now I'm sitting at the dining room table waiting for Clark to get home so I can make him eat some of these. They're like a cross between a flaky biscuit and a cracker and the cheese is quite prominent...

Wait, now he's home. Clark says: "Holy moly! You're amazing! You can make amazing things!"

Labels: food, projects

posted by Alison 5/19/2009 10:27:00 PM : (0) comments : splink