Monday was a pickup day for our Azure Standard order. With Azure, when we place our order, we only know the week our items will be delivered. We don’t know the day or the time. We have to meet up with a group somewhere. I had been part of a group with our pickup location about 10 miles on the other side of Carthage. It wasn’t terribly far considering some people have to drive two hours to get to their pickup location. Several months ago, a lady started a drop and the pickup is maybe 5 miles from my house . . maybe 7 miles. Not far at all. No interstate, all paved back roads. The parking lot is rock, there’s a sidewalk where our merchandise is placed. I like the new location and since it’s a new drop, they need “customers” so I felt like I should go ahead and order each month.
In past years, I didn’t place an Azure order in December, January or February. I didn’t do it in December because things are so busy and I didn’t want to have to plan a week, then a day around an Azure pickup. I don’t usually do it in January or February because of the weather. We don’t drive in the snow or ice and we’re more likely to have at least a little snow and/or ice in both those months. But, I want to support the new drop, so I placed an order. Weather was sunny and COLD. I think it was about 10 degrees and windy when were were out getting our stuff loaded.
Items that go in buckets: 50 pounds of oat groats, 25 pounds of wheat bran, 50 pounds of hard white wheat and 25 pounds of Great Northern Beans.
Having this much grain gets me really fired up about cooking or baking! I wasn’t out of any of these items but just having the buckets sitting there was too much temptation for me.
Vince had told me earlier in the day that he was almost out of muesli. I loosely follow this recipe. I don’t add the fruit. I put it in a separate jar and Vince mixes it as he eats it. I roll the oats, put them in the oven and let them bake until they’re just starting to turn toasted looking. Then I add the wheat bran, let it bake for a few minutes, then I add the nuts, let them roast til almost toasty, then add the coconut. It’s the quickest to get brown. Then I let it all cool, put it in half gallon jars, vacuum seal one and Vince will start with the one that isn’t sealed.
Next, I made Oatmeal Raisin Cookies using whole wheat flour and freshly rolled oats. This is the recipe I used. Up until about a year ago, I could not stand raisins. I couldn’t even stand for Addie to eat them in front of me when she was little. Folks in the Azure FB group kept talking about how great Azure’s Thompson raisins are so I ordered them and I can’t stop eating them. Now, I love oatmeal raisin cookies!
I baked 15 cookies and put 40 “pucks” of cookie dough the the Super Cube Cookie Dough Trays.
Beautiful and yummy!
I try to keep at least four varieties of cookie dough in the freezer. I will pull out usually six pucks of dough, let it sit out a while to defrost but not always completely, then bake them. That way, I don’t make a whole, or even a half recipe of dough and we eat too many cookies. I probably don’t make cookies but once every two or three weeks because if I did . . well, you know what would happen!
What are your thoughts?