Baking and Breaking Bread…

I came back from a week in Scottsdale, AZ to have a great weekend with Kelly and Cooper.

I finally got around to baking some bread based on the techniques in “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” (Jeff Hertzberg, Zoe Francois). Wow! Its so simple, tastes great, and couldn’t be easier or quicker. I recommend this book to anyone interested in making bread. It only takes a few minutes to mix all the ingredients and then you can store the wet dough in the fridge. Then whenever you want to make a loaf in the next 14 days, just tear off a grapefruit sized clump, form it, let it rest, and bake it. Nothing complicated. No kneading necessary. Did I mention that it tastes amazing.

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On Sunday it warmed up enough that we could get Cooper outside to play in the snow. Of course he loved it. Kelly helped him build a little mini snowman that is still out in the front yard. She also came up with a great idea to let Cooper slide down our little hill on the circular lid of our recycling can. [sorry, no pictures]

I uploaded a few pictures from Christmas to our flickr account, but realized I didn’t really take any pictures in the entire month of December or January. We did see a hawk stalking a chipmunk out the back window of Kelly’s parents’ house. In case you are interested, the chipmunk got away.

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I know I haven’t posted much here recently. I have a backlog of links and interesting finds to include in the daily bricolage, so hopefully I will get back to that soon.

I came back from a week in Scottsdale, AZ to have a great weekend with Kelly and Cooper.

I finally got around to baking some bread based on the techniques in “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” (Jeff Hertzberg, Zoe Francois). Wow! Its so simple, tastes great, and couldn’t be easier or quicker. I recommend this book to anyone interested in making bread. It only takes a few minutes to mix all the ingredients and then you can store the wet dough in the fridge. Then whenever you want to make a loaf in the next 14 days, just tear off a grapefruit sized clump, form it, let it rest, and bake it. Nothing complicated. No kneading necessary. Did I mention that it tastes amazing.

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