Saturday Morning

Much to my surprise, Fred asked me this morning about having a diary here. I don’t know why I am surprised. He is an articulate man who enjoys writing down his thoughts. If he ever wants me to, I will provide a link here but I think he is starting by making his diary private. I told him that if he found he was hooked, I would buy him a subscription to ODPlus for his birthday in July.

I am making a two-cheese loaf this morning. It should be good  and nutritious {not to mention high calorie!} with bread flour, wheat flour, honey and both Cheddar and Parmesan cheese in it. The sunflower and sesame-seed loaf I made last time was Ok but it won’t get made again. It tasted all right and it made reasonably good toast but it was nothing special. So far our two favorites {this means I make one of these every three days or so} are the white bread that is made on the French bread setting and thus has a very crisp crust and the brown bread made with just a little molasses. I am glad to have another recipe besides gingerbread to use up the molasses! I really don’t like anything to be very sweet so usually I don’t use honey. If this loaf turns out too sweet, I will try again with sugar {and maybe cutting it down a bit} before I give up on this recipe entirely because we both like the idea of cheesy bread. This is what I did with the brown bread which, I think, called for one-third of a cup of molasses. How I make it now is with one-eight of a cup–enough to give it a hint of sweetness but not so much that we taste the molasses.

Taking this art class has me thinking of my next drawing. We don’t have to do homework but he did give us an extra sheet of paper and remarked that he would be interested to see what we produce with pencils on our own. {I would say that could be called a good “hint! hint! nudge-nudge!”, right? } I am looking at an interestingly serendipitous stack I have on the table right now. The bottom is my camera box and then there are a couple of paperback books of different thicknesses and a manilla folder on top of that. With an addition or two on the sides, this should be an interesting composition to try.

It is 42 degrees and was raining earlier when I went to take some trash out. Once the bread machine has got to the “punch-down” stage, I will take the paddle out and then go for a walk…

Until later…