Garlic and herb bread, part deux
You guys. I thought it looked good the first time:
-

First attempt -

Second attempt
I don’t think my active dry yeast is very active. The quick rise yeast is a lot more fun.
Am I cheating? Discuss.
You guys. I thought it looked good the first time:


I don’t think my active dry yeast is very active. The quick rise yeast is a lot more fun.
Am I cheating? Discuss.
After the horror that was Strom-pizza, John suggested that I try again with instant yeast, so I did. And woo-eeeee! The dough turned out great! The recipe I used said it makes 4 dough balls. We used two for making our pizzas and froze the other two. Once we tried it, we thought maybe we…
And all this time, the garden has been doing its thing. Gardening might be my favorite kind of magic because you do all the work up front. Then, one day, you go outside to enjoy the nice weather and surprise! You have veggies. It’s been raining a lot where we are, and the weather turned…
John’s rainbow scarf is coming along! It’s about 1/3 done. No pattern here. Just knitting and purling until he’s happy with it. FYI, we will be skipping green. John hates green. I’m working on my flicking technique, and so far I’ve more or less got it down on the knit side. Purl not so much….
For the last year, I’ve eaten oatmeal for breakfast pretty much every day. I love it with fruit and almonds and cinnamon and a splash of milk. Yum! But recently, I switched up my eating schedule and bam! No more breakfast, which kind of meant no more oatmeal (or at least not every day since…
My vision to bring our tattered world back into alignment with what’s real I had an experience when I was 15 years old that changed my life. I don’t remember how it happened, but I was asked to be a camp counselor for a group of inner city kids for just one day. That morning,…
The cherry tomatoes are done messing around. They’re coming for us. Oh the humanity That’s just this morning’s haul. There are half a dozen more that will be ripe by the end of the day. I also picked two raspberries, but my hands were full of tomatoes and too bad they went in my mouth….