Sourdough, weeks one and two
The good thing about taking pictures of my first attempt at sourdough bread and then failing to blog about it for a week is that now I can show you the first two attempts at sourdough bread instead, since I …
Month: March 2008
So where was I…?
Sourdough. Right. Sourdough. I’m at the coffee shop, Sunday writing day, taking a quick break from the writing. I remembered to tuck the camera into my backpack so I could upload the sourdough pictures. What I did NOT remember was …
So much for that.
#6 will be the last fragment. They’re not working in the context of the blog, no matter how much I may like them and enjoy writing them. I’ll keep doing them, as I always have–they’re like doing scales–but I’m not …
Fragment #6
Dawn comes up hard and fast through the window, needle to the eyes and the sick taste of metal and geraniums in his mouth. Nostrils crusted shut and an ache that goes bone deep. Done it again Dwight youve done …
The garden is dead! Long live the garden!
We spent Saturday (a warm, sunny, gorgeous day–we timed it well) digging out the Toxoplasmosis Garden to make way for a new, improved, cat-proof garden with nice, clean feces-free dirt. We (meaning Billy, while I toddler-wrangled) dug the dirt out …
Starter started
On Monday evening, I got the sourdough starter going. I decided to follow the method described in the Tassajara Bread Book, because that book has yet to steer me wrong. The method: combine flour, water, honey, and dry active yeast …
Fragment #5
All it takes is seeing one red pickup driving down the road and Im right back there, back to that summer. I think back on Joe, what we did and why. And I wonder if we really did get away …
Frogging the garden?
You know how you start a big knitting project all full of hope and excitement? Thinking about how great the sweater will look on you, thinking of all the places you’ll wear it. How flattering it will be, etc etc? …
Early spring in Utopia
Those garden maps I posted a while ago are already proving to be flexible, guideline-type things. Only March 16th and already I’ve done some revisions. I had planned to just do broccoli from seeds, but a cute little pack of …
Mmmm…soup
Yes, I’m blogging about a totally typical (for us), completely unremarkable dinner we ate. It’s come to that. But the soup really was quite good, and I really do recommend it. I found the recipe here. It was a link …