Crusty Sourdough

No deal

Surprisingly this year's Black Friday was an ode to what a regular Friday used to be.  Not a big deal. Is it more than a US sale now?  

 Is it an international marketing and sales gimmick now?  I'm asking because I get emails from online bike shops from EU for Black Friday deals.  Is there an EU Noir Friday? 

A thank you

And Christmas is in a few days and 2022 is just about here.
And so is a highly transmissable variant of COVID - Omicron.  What can you do?

Online shopping?  Well how much more do you need?  I actually didn't buy anything during Black Friday.  If there was anything I was hoping for, I just wanted a blackout power failure so i didn't have to work.

The only other thing i wish for is for people to be respectful and nice.  Not asking a lot.  Or am i?

One really great thing we have managed to do is we got back on track to complete a few reno projects that were left hanging in limbo.  So that's keeping us busy and taking the focus off the ongoing pandemic.  It's a positive we can achieve instead of the constant negativity we are exposed to. 

Any sort of positive you can create during these times can serve as an inspiration to others.  So why not?

What else are we doing?  Well we are still baking up a storm!  Just trying our hand at banana bread.  And today we made a sourdough type bread.  Kieran's idea.  he found a recipe online, sent me the link and we began yesterday to get the starter going did the rest today.  And it turned out really great!  

 I was kind of shying away from sourdough just because of the effort it took.  It still takes 2 days from start to finish.  But the result is a fantastic rustic type bread with a nice crust.  It wasn't that hard.  I even got to use my proofing bowl and the dutch oven we had too.  That thing gets crazy hot, i could feel it through the mitts.  so be careful.

 

Amazing crust

 

Nothing beats fresh bread, right out of the oven.  This smelled great.  No toasting needed, just a bit of soft room temperature butter.  And enjoy.

It's kinda what got me hooked on this bread making.  People ask if we have a bread making machine.  We don't.  Don't need one.  If you have a bowl, water, flour, salt, and yeast and an oven. You are good to go!

 

Keep it light

Even this Christmas, I'm already getting boxing day sales emails a week before? They've already started!  WTF?  It won't be like this forever.  Things will change eventually.  That's a guarantee.  What that reality will look like, I'm not sure.  

Problems are meant for solving.  It's the reason why we went to school, to learn how to solve problems.  Not to get high scores or best deals.  Adaption is how things survive and evolve.  Respect is how we get to that better place as human beings, together.


 

 

Merry Christmas.
Happy Holidays.

Stay Safe