How did your pasta salad turn out, @starkat? It sounds yummy. I've been thinking I need to learn how to make noodles, so we can make pasta salad regularly. Whole wheat noodles from the store are just too expensive. Every time I see someone mention pasta salad or lasagna, I'm like ooh that sounds so good...but we don't have the noodles.   We do get egg noodles from the farmers market in the summer, but those are for beef and noodles.

I made hamburger buns this week. fourth or fifth time I've made this recipe and I think I finally figured out the right weight and shape for them. My family likes hamburgers that 4-5 oz, so this week I made buns that were 2.8-3 oz. My cousin's recipe said 3.5-4 ounces, but we found that to be too much. A kitchen scale is so very helpful when making buns or rolls. This was also the first time I made the buns with flour from wheat that had been sprouted, they had good flavor and texture.  

I also made vanilla ice cream for a birthday party and although it turned out okay, it was not my best. I'm not sure if I needed more cream in the ice cream, rock salt on the ice, or if the wooden bucket leaking the ice water was the problem, or maybe some combination of the three. But for now I can't make more ice cream until I figure out how to reseal the bucket.  

@snowangel it actually turned out really good. I'm going to change a few things for next week. Broccoli instead of peas, avocado lime ranch, and maybe Italian seasoning.