Sunday busy the whole way through [status, food, projects]

[rebeccmeister]

Sunday morning: The regular Sunday pancakes and coffee, a couple loose ends. Then I biked to campus for a looooong planning meeting for the rowing club. These are very necessary and it was run well, just long.

Then finally home again. I was pleased to manage to get all of the wood cut for making Worm Bin Bench II, but that's as far as I got for now. I want to do a bunch of sanding before assembly. At least there's now a shop vac to use with the orbital sander and to generally clean up the workbench area.

I also baked a loaf of bread, and, all things considered, it came out extremely well. We have these rye flakes from the farmer's market that I don't entirely know what to do with, but 1/2 C in a loaf of bread was good, along with rye flour and potato flour (with the remainder being whole wheat flour). My sourdough starter seems to have retained at least a little bit of life, thankfully.

And made a batch of muesli.

I'm aiming to finish making a small vegetarian shepherd's pie, with some filling that was in the depths of the chest freezer, but only made it as far as preparing a potato mash for the top.

And now, somehow, it's the end of Sunday and time to start another week, beginning with a dental appointment tomorrow morning. Whee.

I took some good fun photos but am not ready to write a full post yet.

Comments

[asakiyume]

Sounds like a great loaf of bread! And the muesli sounds good too.

[rebeccmeister]

I can now say, with some small sense of relief, that the bread came out very well! The flavor is wonderful and the texture is pretty good. I think because the sourdough sat dormant for so long, (oh, and our house isn't particularly warm), it was a very sloooooooooow rise, and the crumb is fine and the gluten isn't especially glutenous.

But it is DELICIOUS, and I did manage to bake it all the way through, which is what I was the most worried about since I'm out of practice.

[asakiyume]

I hear you on baking the bread all the way through--I've sometimes failed on that!