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Friday, Sunday & Saturday Journal

Publish Date: 2026-08-03

Last Friday night I spent time learning how to make my own Churros! Since I was already making my own tortillas for tacos, I was inspired to make Churros for dessert too.

I had a churro kit that had been sitting on the shelf for awhile now and figured this would be pretty simple. The kit came with a pastry bag and tube tip, and a mix. I followed the instructions exactly, which I noticed immediately something wasn't right. Regardless, I followed them to see what would happen and as expected, it wasn't working out.

The instructions on the side of the box said 1 1/2 cup of water to 1 cup of Churro mix. That's a lot of water! So you can probably imagine what that looked like. I had to add more mix to it to firm it up into a batter like paste. The box also said to heat up some oil in a frying pan, which I did.

When I attempted to squeeze out the Churro paste into the pan, it sort of lumped up and came out looking like a giant tape worm. I was so grossed out by its appearance and texture that I didn't want to eat it.

Nope.

I was just about to give up, but decided to give it a second try. I looked up some recipes online and I could see that the first few were all going to cause the same problem; they called for too much water! I looked around some more trying to figure out what was missing and I finally found it; you have to boil the water to a rolling boil first, then quickly dump in the flour mix and stir up into a ball! I had no idea that it could do that, but boiling the water is the trick that a lot of recipes seem to omit. I think the rule of thumb to go by is if a recipe calls for "warm" water, that means you aught to boil it... Why not just say that instead of "warm" water though?

After that I let it cool down because it was too hot for the pastry bag. The consistency from out of the tube was perfect. I also broke out the deep fryer too instead of using the fry pan.

Perfect form.

I realized half way thru that you should squeeze out the Churros onto a pan first, then gently drop em into the oil. I was following the lead of some YouTube videos where they were squeezing out the Churro paste from the tube while standing over the pot of oil and quickly realized that you shouldn't do it that way or else risk dropping the whole tube into the oil and it splash back onto you. You could also risk the tube tip popping off and all the paste come blowing out into the pot. That oil is heated to 375 degrees fahrenheit.

They turned out perfectly!

Before and after.

Sprinkled a little cinnamon sugar over them.

This Saturday I spent most of my time at my parents again. I figured I should stop by every few weeks. I got my hair cut and had cat fish for supper, so it was a good time.

I don't have much else to write on for Saturday other than that. We mostly just hung out and talked.

Sunday after Church service I hung out with a friend of mine and his family to sell water melon to some of the other church goers. When we got back to their place to rest, I read Amelia Bedelia to the younger kids upon their insistence, which I vaguely recall my mom reading this book to me as a kid. It's probably still buried in the closet of my room back in their house somewhere. I do like the Eclectic Victorian house in the book though.

Picture from off image search... I didn't have one.

After awhile of rest, I took off to a supper I was invited to later in the evening at another friends place. They had an old slide projector with picture film slides of their family from between the 70's and 80's that we watched. Even though I don't really know their family that well, it was still interesting to see. They were part of the homeschooling wave back in that time, which the grandmother said that back then there weren't any curriculum's or material like today and that it was kind of scary because it wasn't very well received among a lot of people either. You were totally on your own, but they managed to find other families to get together with.

I remember my parents home schooling me for awhile, but I believe it was mostly due to my complete incompatibility and bad experience from enrolling me into kindergarten that prompted them to do that. I knew the rules, but had zero concept of instruction or receiving direction in that kind of environment and the school wasn't able to handle it.

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