Lists {Mostly}

This really feels like a day I haven’t done much–so, what, exactly, have I done.

• I did my usual dishwashing of the dishes used  yesterday.
• I read a lot of delicious recipes from my two new bread-machine cook books but since we still have most of a crisp-crust white loaf and a sunflower and some-other-seed-I-can’t-remember left, I didn’t make any more bread today.
• I went to the grocery store mainly to deposit my refund from the radiologist check but bought a few things like gluten for my new bread-making adventures!
• I went for a 30 minute walk this morning.
• This afternoon I walked down to the senior center to enquire about the art classes but it was all locked up. I will walk back down there tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow I need to:

• Go for a walk
• Go up to school to read with Nick
• Call Robin and ask her if anyone in her house is allergic to nuts. I was going to make her a nut loaf but if I can’t get hold of her, I will make her brown bread instead. I see her again on Friday.
• Count the trip hill to the school and downhill to home as my second walk of the day.
• Check on the art classes at the senior center

I have been having a little problem with this new bread machine in that the container doesn’t seem to want to stay in place. A few days ago,  I made a whole-wheat nut loaf and the dough was very “solid” until I added a smidgin more of water but , before I did this, the machine was banging a lot. Now Fred has been telling me that I am not being careful enough about clicking the container  down into the bottom, but, hey, I have been doing this for some time and I am sure I am doing it correctly. The last time I made bread,  it finally occurred to me that since the pan always shifts on one side, the same side, it must be something to do with the clip. So, I pulled it out just a tiny bit and voila!—no more shifting and banging! This machine has a “Pause” button and then hitting “Start” picks up the program at the place it stopped which has been a big help {until I figured out why the container was slipping} because I had to keep stopping the program and readjusting the container.

One thing I learned from reading these two new books is that sometimes a machine which is touted as able to make a two-pound load isn’t really big enough for this. And the way to tell is to measure how many cups of water it takes to fill the pan. To make a 2 pound loaf, the pan must have the capacity to hold 13 cups of water. So, I measured mine and , yes, it does hold 13 cups.

Until later…