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I like there to be more yeast than salt when I play around with a bread recipe, so I think you are on the right track.
I picked two quarts of blackberries in our woodlands on Sunday morning and was on my way to filling a third when a thunderstorm arrived, forcing a hasty retreat. I seeded enough blackberries for a quart of puree and made three 8 oz. and one 4 oz. jars of blackberry jam. Maybe it is because I seed the fruit, but I never get as much as I do when I make the black raspberry jam. I have a quart of blackberries still and plan to go back and pick more tomorrow and make more jam.
For dinner, I made a farro stir-fry using the rest of the chicken breast meat I cooked last week. The sauteed vegetables were celery, green onion, red bell pepper, mushrooms, kale, and zucchini. I cooked the farro in chicken broth. I used Penzey's Justice blend, which is what I use on the bone-in chicken breasts. It is just enough that my husband does not complain and even enjoys the spice blend. There is enough for one more meal.
It is not really gardening, but the wild blackberries are ripening in our woods. I picked two one-quart baskets and was on my way to filling a third, when a thunderstorm came in, so we had to leave.
We have tomatoes on most of the plants, although I think the Early Girl is not doing so well. The potato plants are rather high and flowering. The green beans have started to produce. The honey nut squash is beginning to flower. The fairy tale pumpkin plants in the grow bag have giant leaves and may be getting ready to flower. We have had a lot of wind, and it keeps blowing the vines in the direction we do not want them to go.
CWC design--perhaps pour some of the water--boiling--over the cornmeal and allow it to rest for about ten minutes? I find that with medium grind, that lets it soften and absorb some of the water. You might also cut back on the salt or increase the yeast.
By Irish Whole Meal, do you mean the flour? It has less gluten than regular flour.
For Sunday breakfast, I made Cornmeal Pumpernickel Waffles, which we had with maple syrup. As our dog was traumatized by fireworks last night (someone in our area paid for a very expensive, 20-minute professional firework show), the waffles were a welcome soother this morning. Then we got a thunderstorm in the late morning. Sigh.
For dinner tonight, we had leftover roasted chicken breast. I also roasted more potato chunks and small carrots tossed in olive oil. We microwaved a few green beans--the first to be ready from our garden.
Thanks, Mike. I saw your post after I used the 2 1/4 cups of marginal blueberries to make Blueberry Chia Seed jam, using a recipe at Kitchn:
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-easy-chia-jam-with-any-fruit-222310
I used 4 Tbs. of sugar and just 1 Tbs. lemon juice; indeed, the lemon juice seemed a bit strong, which is why I added more sugar. I increased the chia seed to 2 Tbs. and 2 tsp. I will let it rest in the refrigerator for a day or so. My plan is to try it with the Oat Jam bars recipe.
My dental floss method has developed over the years. I no longer start at the end but position the floss under the dough in the middle of the roll. Thus, for a 16-inch roll, I would put it at eight inches. and slice through. If I were making 12 rolls, I would then slice each 8-inch half in half, then slice each of those into three equal pieces. If I'm making nine rolls, I cut the original log in thirds, then each piece into thirds.
If you start at one end and work your way to the other end of a whole log, the rolls at the end are often misshapen.
It helps to use the thin dental floss, not the "tape" stuff. And make sure it is unflavored! The CVS brand works for me.
Use a piece about 12-14 inches long. Place the dental floss under the log. Pick up the right side with the left hand and the left side of the floss with the left side with the right hand, so that the ends are crossed, then pull down evenly.
Your cinnamon buns, ready to bake, look great, Joan. I agree that dental floss to cut them is the way to go.
Our Friday night dinner was leftover black-eyed peas with rice and ham.
I was sorting through our washed berries and was disappointed that we appear to have gotten a lot of over ripe ones, although we picked in the area to which we were directed. I froze eight 4-cup bags today and will sort the rest tomorrow. I will need to figure out what recipe might work for the marginal ones.
I never got past the single knitting stitch, so my efforts are cross stitch and needlework. However, when I read your post, I thought of Senator Bernie Sanders at the presidential inauguration wearing that great pair of mittens. I'll bet they were lined like the ones you mention. The mittens were later auctioned off for charity after becoming a meme.
My husband and I picked 16 pounds of blueberries on Thursday morning at our favorite blueberry farm. I am in the process of washing them and leaving them to dry on paper towel-lined sheet pans. I will freeze many of them in quart bags tomorrow after they dry. For dinner, as we still have cooler weather, I roasted two bone-in chicken breasts, which we had with roasted potato chunks and small carrots tossed in olive oil.
Joan--a lot of rye breads are better the day after they bake.
We had a repeat dinner also, only ours was the black-eyed peas with rice and ham. It might not have been a repeat if I had remembered to thaw something....
Italian Cook--I have four 1/8th sheet pans. Mine are USA, and I bought them from King Arthur some time back. I could envision doing mini pan pizzas with different toppings in them, and perhaps bar cookies with different ingredients. I sometimes use them to group ingredients. And they fit in the countertop oven.
Oh, and they are cute. You just want to scratch them under their little rolled rim. 🙂
We had 5.25 inches of rain from late Tuesday afternoon into this morning. With the house cooled down considerably, I baked Scottish oatcakes on Wednesday morning, followed by Bittersweet Blackberry Brownies, using the last of the frozen blackberry puree from last year. It looks like we will have another bumper blackberry crop, so I anticipate freezing more for use throughout the coming year.
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