See that big bucket of spooge behind the kitchen scale? It's my virgin foray into my new book Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes(recommended by Sybil, gifted by Margie). You make a vat of bread dough, only you don't knead it or anything...it really just resembles a sponge. Then you let it rise for a couple hours at room temperature. At that point you can either gets ta bakin' or store the stuff in your fridge. When you want to bake a loaf of bread you just cut off a grapefruit sized wad and shape it, let it rest for a little more than half an hour, then toss it in the oven. My first attempt is in the oven as we speak. It didn't seem to rise much on the counter, so I will have to keep you posted on the progress. I remain cautiously optimistic.
Next up, the juicer! Props to Margie, again, for this birthday extravagance. This is a gem of a machine and even though it's a Breville I will always refer to it as the Juice Tiger. I juice everything now! The girls tossed back a cup of apple juice like it was water in the desert. Then I recreated my favorite Whole Foods juice, apple-beet-ginger. It was perfect on my first try. YUM. 
To my shock and amazement, Kate and especially Sarah, loved this one. You can kind of see Sarah's beet mustache in this photo. Poor Lola is stained from her kisses. So now they'll happily scarf down carrots, edamame, spinach (when sauteed with garlic and olive oil...and Kate just discovered the wonders of blue cheese melted in there) and beets. I'm thrilled.***UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE, etc. **********
The bread is out of the oven. Oh. My. GOD. I am going to get so fat.
11 comments:
Dang! I need to learn how to make bread. My bread is consistently to heavy for human consumption.
wv: bistr
A cross-gendered sibling.
Example:
Lisa has three brothers and one bistr.
too ...not to. doh.
Indeed the pasta was fabulous. What? Was there no bread left over?
There was bread left over, but now I can make it so quickly I plan to eat a great deal more. A GREAT deal more.
Keith's been outed!
Oh yeah, like THAT'S news.
You are a damn good looking woman.
Nobody has mentioned how beatiful the bread is AND how beautiful Kate's dress is! Way to go, Jo Jo!!
mmmmmmmmmmmm! so thaaat's how that make that kind of bread! the wine and bread are making me hungry? cheese too? i might just have to go out and get a breadmaker!
I choose to forget that you doubted me... if only for a moment.
I could use a second person for pasta making. The cats just can't seem to get the hang of turning the handle.
It helps to have thumbs for that...or a prehensile tail. Maybe get some monkeys?
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