Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

breathing better

2024-03-30T16:10:21Z

I was grumbling yesterday about using the flutter valve twice a day, because I don't like coughing, and Adrian expressed sympathy and then told me that, now that I'm using the thing, I am breathing better when I'm not coughing, which is most of the time.

( Read more... )

comments

I made bread

2020-04-11T01:03:12Z

I made a loaf of bread today, for the first time.

I sometimes bake sweets, including cookies and cupcakes, but had neer tried bread befrore. Some people on Discord were talking about no-knead bread, and the person who went shopping for us a couple of weeks ago managed to get both flour and yeast, so I gave it a try.

cattitude and I ate a bit under half the loaf for dinner, with butter on mine and honey on his. Theere was a little bit of pickled herring, and Cattitude had some olives, but mostly we ate the bread, as soon as it had cooled down after baking.

( Read more... )

comments

food notes: bread, apples

2015-10-18T18:09:11Z

adrian_turtle and I went to the Harvard Square Farmers' Market on Friday. We got apples, ravioli, bread, and tomatoes.

The bread was the durum wheat country loaf from Hi-Rise Bakery, which exactly lived up to my expectations of being similar to the durum wheat semolina bread I used to get from a bakery in New York (before they decided there was more money in donuts, danishes, and sandwiches than in loaves of bread): a good crust on a rich-tasting, slightly yellow loaf.

The apples were a lot of macouns (since I'd liked the macoun I ate a day or two earlier and figured it was a good year for them) and the vendor's last two Esopus Spitzenberg (a variety about which I have rhapsodized before). I ate the smaller of the two this morning, and concluded that it should have been picked about now for greater flavor; the larger is going home with me, so I can share it with Cattitude.

We're not moving to Boston for the apples, but proper, flavorful apples are one of the things I miss about living in the Northeast.

comments