Wednesday and Thursday

See what lovely surprise greeted me at school today.   :)   Jonathan is my little sweetie.  I think he was also trying to make up for yesterday!!!   Don’t ask....  :)   :)

Yesterday was sort of tough all over.  I just could not get my head together.  That is never a good thing, but it is especially bad on baking day!  I had 4 batches of bread to bake for customers.... but it took me 7 batches to get it done correctly!!!   First, I left the cinnamon and raisins out of the Cinnamon Raisin bread (that might be noticed???).... then I left the yeast out of the Honey Wheat (had to just throw all of that in the trash can)..... then I forgot to put the Oatmeal in the Oatmeal bread.   Ugh.   Amazingly, I didn’t do anything to the Herb bread. When I finally got done with it all I collapsed - and had a glass of wine.  Hmmmm.... maybe I should have had the wine FIRST?  Nah - considering how rarely we have wine, that probably wouldn’t have helped at ALL!  Oh well - I now have a lot of loaves in my freezer for my family.   :) 

This only LOOKS like a prosperous day!

We have had a ton of rain in the last 2 days.  Our yard looks like a pond.  Tonight at Tae Kwon Do the sky was just so intriguing - I took a few photos.  I love observing the sky - in all kinds of weather.  Just now, watching the news, I am hearing that there were a couple tornadoes that touched down in the counties just north of us - at about the time I was taking these photos. 

Then, on the way home, Jackson and I took some more pictures of the sky as the storm was passing.

5 Comments

Donna

What a LOT of baking!!  I'm sure your family won't mind eating your "mistakes."  I've been really enjoying the clouds lately.  Haven't they been great?
Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 04:24 PM

Dorothy
Hi Donna,
Do you bake for a living?
I always try to bake more, but it's so time-consuming!  Maybe I need several bread machines all going at once! {g}
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 02:13 AM

Laura
Hi Dorothy -
This is Laura. :)
Although Donna does also bake bread for her family.  Plus, she is WAY funnier than I am! :)

I do bake bread for others.  I am not sure I can say it is "for a living".... but I do sell my bread.  :)  I don't sell my mistake bread though - that bread my poor family gets to eat!!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 09:18 AM

Laura
Dorothy -
Forgot to mention - I "cheat" a little..... I use my Bosch mixer and make 5 loaves of dough at a time.  Plus, I have 2 ovens so I can keep the bread rotating pretty well.  I can do about 25 loaves in about 4 hours.  Not too bad.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 09:20 AM

julie
Laura
I realize your probably over this tough day you had a while back, but it stuck in my head and I thought I would share this with you.

I woke up this EARLY this morning intending to make scones for my family.  Well, when I realized I was going to sacrifice 4c. of flour and #3/4 of butter, I changed my mind and decided to make muffins instead.  I was trying to be on the healthy side, so I decided to sub half of the white flour for wheat flour.

Well, my muffins turned out TERRIBLE!  They raised and then sunk.  I couldn't figure it out.  SInce it was so early, I got on the computer and was Googling Baking with Wheat Flour, quickbreads with wheat flour, etc; anything to ease my mind.  Still, nothing. I decided to just give up on this whole baking thing.  It has it ups and down days.  Well, a little while later I realized, I FORGOT to add the WHITE FLOUR!   DUHHH!  Anyway, we all have our moments of complete forgetfulness.

Hope you and your family are well.
Take care
Julie

Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 09:36 AM