Bread Makes The Meal

I thought I had some really good pictures for you tonight. What I actually have for you is some good evidence that it's difficult (for me at least) to take good pictures with a cell phone camera. Difficult enough that I'm going to go back to borrowing Nancie's mom's camera to take the pictures. But I'll post the pictures because I want to at least show you something . I made the Milk and Water Bread over the weekend. It didn't go exactly as I had planned the recipe; the sponge was considerably wetter, and I let the dough rise for a lot longer (because we got occupied in making the slow cooker ribs). Didn't seem to hurt, though: The bread came out just as tasty. After all that baking, I could hardly wait to eat! The next thing, obviously, was to use the bread appropriately, namely, to mop up the barbecue sauce from dinner: Fortunately, there was plenty of bread for all that sauce. Again, I apologize for the poor quality of the pictures. But...

So we went to the community garden last night and I have to say it was as bad as I had imagined it. Here's what we saw walking in: Things hadn't got knocked over or pushed about so much as they had been stripped of leaves. There are a few leaves left on the tomato plant, but they're mostly gone: We may be able to salvage it, though; I'll take a look. The pepper plants actually came off virtually unharmed; we got our first pepper of the season. It looks, smells, and feels wonderful! Is there a way to use bell pepper in bread? That would be a great way to combine the two interests of mine. I'll be back tomorrow with pictures of bread with our slow-cooker barbecued ribs. God speed, and remember: All sorrows are less with bread .

And much less of a big deal than I thought it would be. At least, by us. Now closer to Trenton, there's a lot of flooding; and up in Hightstown, where we used to live, the Peddie Lake dam gave way, yielding this: But by us, except for a very minor leak in the front window, and a few branches down next door: nothing. I have to go find Nancie's camera, which has the pictures of bread from yesterday and today. I discovered a good use for the Milk and Water bread: sopping up barbecue sauce. You can find the recipe I used here . Unfortunately, it looks like the owner of the blog hasn't updated in over a year. I wish I could get in touch with her and see what was up; this was a good recipe and I'm sure she has many more. And it was really easy to make, too. And the bread was perfect with it :-) God speed, and remember, All sorrows are less with bread .

(Posted from my phone) I'm making bread (the Milk and Water Bread).  It's just out of the oven; I'll add a picture after it cools.  I'll also add a picture of the incoming hurricane clouds.  It's on Nancie's camera right now. I agree with something a friend said.  I imagine we will lose power, and I'm not looking forward to it, not because we're not ready (we are) but because I don't like being in the dark. Stay well, God speed, and remember: All sorrows are less wi th bread.

I must say, things are looking decent overall, but not as good as I would have wanted. The pumpkins are looking pretty scraggly and bedraggled overall; I wonder if I didn't get overenthusiastic in trimming things up last time? The one (taller) tomato plant seems to be doing reasonably well: The other one seems to have fallen over again, despite efforts to tie it up. I'm definitely not getting that variety again next year. Our peppers are doing really quite well (even the one that looks a bit droopy). That's the droopy one. The peppers on the other one aren't quite ripe yet, but there are more of them. And the strawberry plant still has no strawberries (even though the blurb said that it can produce fruit through late September); but it's got some new growth sprouting round the edges. With however much of Irene that affects us over the weekend, it's probably going to be rather rainy through the weekend. (Maybe I ...

This is not bread except in the remotest of senses (namely, it requires flour), but I just had to share with you a recipe I got from the blog Mama Loves Food!: namely, Easy Fried Pickles . Yummy!

I haven't made bread for ages , it seems like. At least partly because the Milk and Water Bread recipe makes two loaves. Well, it looks like two loaves is too much for us to get through, at least recently. I checked our second loaf and it was all moldy. Oh come on, you didn't really want a picture of that, did you? :-) So anyway, no bread, no sandwich. I brought leftover pizza for lunch. Of course, pizza dough is also a type of bread (though I don't think I'd call pizza a "sandwich"). But since I didn't make it or bake this pizza, it doesn't count. What do you think? Is pizza a sandwich? We've occasionally made our own pizza, but not our own dough—yet. If we do, I can do an article on that. Not this week, maybe next, after we've had a few other things as well. And I'm going to the garden this evening; the weather's supposed to be great and I'm expecting great things, all of which I will share with you tomorrow. ...