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…
After all the things I’ve made, making friends is still my favorite. My amazing son Samson took this photo of our sweet boy Jack
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…
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Our beautiful disaster. I give you the strom-pizza: The horror It started this morning with a cheery, “Let’s make pizza for lunch!” John looked dubious, but I was already measuring the flour. I had a funny feeling that I interpreted as, “I used the wrong yeast.” But…
Adventure time! On Saturday, John and I headed out to a nearby State park for some R&R. They have a waterfall there, accessible via an easy 1/2 mile hike that is very popular. We knew it would be popular (read: people-y) and decided to go anyway, because even though we prefer solitude it seemed wrong…
The knitting fairy stopped by and she had my new yarn and teeny tiny circular knitting needles! Socks, here we come! Squee!
Apparently I’m a little stuck on baking. So stuck, in fact, that in one short week I have used up these kitchen staples: Flour Salt Chocolate Chips And before you say anything, chocolate chips *are too* a staple. I used them today when I decided to bake cookies. These cookies are my jam I’ve been…
This morning I made sandwich rolls. They are the simplest thing in the world and they’re SO much better than anything I’ve ever found in a plastic bag. My sandwich rolls call all the boys to the yard, including Jacques and Beau. Woof. They didn’t get as brown as the photo in the recipe, but…
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….
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….