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Oh, Joan, I am so sorry for your loss. Hugs.
Thursday is our dog Annie's "Gotcha Day." Twelve years ago, we drove to a place outside Detroit to meet this fourteen-month-old Australian Cattle Dog in need of a home and bring her back with us. We celebrated this morning with her favorite breakfast of waffles, in this case, the Cornmeal-Pumpernickel recipe, although she likes all waffles.
We had an easy dinner on Thursday of shaved ham sandwiches, using the last of the buns that I baked earlier in the week.
We spent the afternoon preparing for and awaiting the delivery of a new washing machine, as the Maytag Epic that I bought twenty years ago, and which we moved from Texas to Indiana, finally began malfunctioning in a major way. It is impossible to get a repair person where we now live, and given the machine's age, I doubt it was repairable, so we bought a new one. Washing machines are getting to be as complicated as cars, with a lot of bells and whistles no one really needs. We settled on a Samsung that seems straightforward (we do not plan to use the Aps for it on our phones), and at 5-cubic feet will wash the comforter easily.
CWCdesign--You didn't say how much of the Harvest Grains you wanted to use. Since the recipe is 3 cups of flour, you might start with 1/4 to 1/3 cup. If you use the 1/4 cup, I suggest just adding them in. You might need a little more liquid due to half whole wheat and the Harvest Grains. If you plan to use more than 1/4 cup, you might reduce the flour a bit or use more liquid.
Let us know how your experiment goes.
I made dough for Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers on Wednesday. After it rests in the refrigerator, I will bake them early next week.
Our dinner on Wednesday was the rest of the pea soup and shaved ham sandwiches on the Whole Wheat/Rye/Semolina buns.
Tuesday night dinner was chicken salad sandwiches on buns, and Scott also made us salads.
For too long, I have been ignoring a partial and a full bag of cranberries in the produce drawer of my refrigerator, so on Monday, I sorted through them and threw away the bad ones. I froze some and used another heaping cup to bake my oil-based Cranberry Scones. I usually mix half King Arthur AP with half of their Irish-style flour, but as I have a lot of whole wheat pastry flour, I decided to use it in a 2:1 ration to the AP flour. I also added ½ tsp. of orange extract to my usual recipe. The dough was sturdy enough that I patted it into an 8-inch circle, then cut it into triangles that I spread out on the baking sheet. I cut the baking time to 21 minutes, which was perfect.
Dinner on Monday night was leftover split pea soup and cornbread.
I baked cornbread on Saturday to go with more of the split pea soup for dinner.
That pizza does sound interesting, Mike.
We were out of cookies to have with our tea, so on Friday, I baked my healthier version of Oatmeal Scotchies. They are healthier because I use white whole wheat flour and replace the two sticks of butter with half a cup of avocado oil and 3 Tbs. water. I also add 2 Tbs. each milk powder and flax meal, and a half cup of sunflower seeds. I realize that the package of Nestles Butterscotch chips is indulgence, but hey, the cookies do have oats!
For dinner on Friday, I made Split Pea soup, using a large ham bone that I had bought and frozen a couple of months ago. Our weather has been cooler, and it is very breezy this evening, so the soup was a perfect meal, with leftovers for future dinners.
I decided to bake bread on Thursday, as Scott finished the current loaf for lunch. Although I still have a loaf of bread in the freezer, I have been wanting to try "Clay's Multigrain Sourdough Sandwich Bread," which was featured in a King Arthur catalogue and is on their website. I made a few changes by increasing the whole wheat flour and using bread flour instead of AP and replacing the sugar with honey. I also reduced the salt to ¾ tsp. I inadvertently put in too much flour, but as I have a soupier starter than most people, it came out ok. The catalogue called for it to be baked in King Arthur's stoneware loaf pan, but there is not enough dough for an 11 x 5 x 31/2-inch pan. I used an Emile Henry 8 ½ x 4 ½-inch loaf pan (greased and coated with semolina), but the loaf is small. The bread got rave reviews in the comments, so I will see what we think we I slice it tomorrow.
We had more of the roasted chicken breast and ate the rest of the vegetable stir-fry. The bok choy is rather strong, and Scott prefers that I not buy any more of it.
Now that we are done dashing west and north, my husband has been planting the garden. On Saturday, I bought a Dester Indiana tomato plant, two purple cherry tomato plants, and a red cherry tomato plant, along with a dill plant. Those are in the garden. We had four organic potatoes that were past eating, so my husband planted those. Two years ago, we got a nice potato crop; last year's did not do well. My husband also started some Dester tomatoes, but those are not large enough for transplant yet. The green beans are planted. The cucumbers for pickles are planted. In addition to the dill plant I bought, we had some volunteer from last year come up. We are also trying fairy tale pumpkin again. My husband is considering planting some Early Girls tomatoes.
The garden was a bit slowed down when we got back from our trip to the wedding in San Diego because Scott started hoeing, and the ground suddenly exploded as two larger baby bunnies and two smaller ones bounded out of a nest. Scott managed to put the two smaller ones back, but the best he could do with the larger ones was herd them away from our road on which people drive too fast. He left the garden alone for five days or so after that, then discovered that the bunnies are all gone.
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