My crafting life has been suffering because the Olympics has me enthralled. I'm not sure why I like to watch perfect strangers sliding down snow covered hills so much but I do so you'll find me glued to the TV all day right now. Only if something's sitting near the TV might it get picked up and worked on. Hearts and Flowers is there so it got a new purplish flower and some stems this week. I spent more time on Etsy buying more colors of wool for the other flowers than I did working on this one.
When the live events are done for the day I've been in the kitchen making bread almost every night trying out new techniques. Sourdough is a two step process. First you have to figure out the starter thing and then you have to figure out how to make a proper loaf out of it. My last loaf is getting closer but it's still not right.
Unlike yeast bread that needs kneading, the less you handle sourdough, the better. You can't knock all the air out of it. I'm getting some bubbles but those holes should be bigger meaning this loaf was underproofed. I'm going to have to work on that.
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n spite of making all this bread, I've still got a lot of discard left over at the end of the day. Most is turned into waffles for the freezer but I also tried out a recipe for sourdough chocolate chip cookies and....
...these Parmesan Rosemary crackers. Both of these were awfully good. Too good to have around for long. I need to stop all this baking stuff and go back to just making soap. Soap doesn't pack on the pounds.
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Your flower is beautiful and all of your baking looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteI just used some of my discard last night to make Molasses Discard Cookies. They are delicious. I might need to make more friends to gift all the sourdough goodies. Though you know from being a teacher, just place anything in the teacher lounge and it will disappear right quick!
ReplyDeleteI laughed at the 'soap doesn't put on pounds'!
ReplyDeleteThe rug hooking is so pretty and that loaf looks good to me!
Very pretty flower! That sourdough bread and cookies look yummy. No calories either, right? ;>)
ReplyDeleteI love your heart and the breads all look delicious. I haven't caught much of the Olympics because of medical stuff, but Konnor Ralph who is on the American Freestyle team, taught our oldest granddaughter Kyleigh how to do jumps. They both ski on their home mountain in Montana. She said he's a great guy.
ReplyDeleteBlessings and hugs,
Betsy
What a pretty flower and such beautiful baked goods.
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