December 23, 2001
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My computer room is WARM!! It is lovely! It is wonderful!! *happy sigh* Yes, I have a heater now and sitting at the computer is like being on a beach in Hawaii. Well, except for the ocean. And, well I don’t have sand..or sun…or palm trees, or funny blue drinks with paper umbrellas. But who cares, that is all icing on the cake. I am warm!!
Speaking of oceans and the beach, yesterday Gene and I took the girls to Oceanside and we played on the beach, built a sand castle and walked on the pier. The sun was out and it was lovely! I think we all went home in a happy, alpha-type state.
In was a nice contrast to Friday, which was very cold and rainy most all day. I tried several times to head over to Legoland and each time we would start on our way and the rain would begin all over again. *sigh* When Gene came home he said it did not rain at all at Legoland that day. Oh well!
I also got all the Christmas gifts wrapped yesterday. Gene watched the girls while I locked myself in the bedroom, popped in a tape of “The Fisher King” and wrapped and wrapped. The chore was a lot easier with a movie to watch.
Meanwhile I am working on various munchies for the holidays. We will be having a mid-day dinner with friends on Christmas and I am bringing homemade bread to it. It has been a learning process, as this recipe calls for you to make something called a sponge two days before, which just seems to be a big yeast experiment to me. Then the second night you let do several risings, with the final rising taking 8 hours or overnight. I will bake the bear claws tomorrow although I will probably chop up ingredients tonight to make it simpler tomorrow. And I also have to do the first stage of cooking for twice baked potatoes. I also plan to serve leg of lamb, jello salad, Caesar salad, green beans, olives and chocolate mousse for dessert.
Ugh food, far too much on my mind, but at least I am seeing it now. I also had my first OA meeting yesterday morning. I am determined to keep going and work on my head and find sanity with my relationship with food. I don’t have a clue what is normal anymore.
Comments (12)
Playing on the beach sounds mah-velous! It’s cold, snowy & icky here.
Merry Christmas!
I have made bread for several years and often use a sponge, which is just a moist yeast culture, though I have never made my sponge more than a few hours before using it. A sponge gives you many times the number of yeast beasties you would get by just adding a few packets or cakes of yeast to the basic dry bread mix. That helps the mix rise faster, particularly with the heavier flours like rye.
The only reason I can think of for starting your sponge days in advance would be to capture wild yeast from the air for sourdough bread. I’ve never tried starting a sourdough culture from scratch because it is too much of a hit-and-miss affair. I would rather experiment with different flours than with different yeast cultures.
I like to use rice flour in my breads for its natural sweetness and the light, delicate texture it gives the end product. Rice flour is also good for gravy. I also like to use a bit of corn flour (not corn meal) for its color, flavor and texture.
James
I don’t know that there is any “normal” when it comes to food. Some of the people that I know that are quite slim think about food a lot. So do some not so slim people. And others of assorted shapes don’t seem to think about it much. I suspect that food is like art or music. It is very important for some people and a take it or leave it item for others.
Warm is good.
Your dinner sounds much more elaborate than ours will be. Lord of the Rings was incrediable. I have never read the books and had no idea what would happen. All I knew of it was the golem. It can be rather scary at times and it is a very long yet very fast 3 hours. I am going to start reading the books this weekend.
I’m almost all wrapped as well. Only 4-5 more and I’ll be finished!
happy holidays!
Merry Christmas Jane!!
It’s not an easy transition going from the Bread Winner to the Bread Maker is it? Ah, won’t be long and you’ll be a domestic engineer or a domestic goddess or a short hair domestic….ah, forget it!
See ya soon and Merry Christmas, C
My favorite part of Fisher King is when the homeless guy sings the Ethel Merman song on the desk in drag.
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