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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.

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.

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.