Okay, I think I’m getting it now. The more I read about starters, bigas, sponges, and poolishes, I can see how working with yeast is like gardening. Starting with tiny seeds you can create bounty, flavor, life. This is why…
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Bayk-Mor
I’m looking over the flour brand list from the bakery supply place I visited last week. I started out trying to confirm whether the “Big Yield” flour I bought is unbleached, as it is indicated on my invoice. I may…
Disc me!
There is a disc golf course in Balboa Park, a beautiful collection of glades, swales, and broad greens. I drive past it periodically going to meetings during the week, and it’s always busy. Who are these people playing disc golf…
Astragal
Just a quick thought while I’m at work. When I see “astragal” listed in one of my documents, I don’t think of the door hardware. I think of a girl wearing a silver miniskirt, a cone-shaped hat with an atom…
Digging Holes
This weekend I dug literal and figurative holes. The former were for our new fence, a home project that has stretched out because of inevitable time restrictions. The latter were on Mother’s Day. But first, a picture of the digger.…
Major Leagues
IMG_0043 Now I've got to make a lot of bread–I just bought 100 pounds of flour. I found a bakery supply way out in the countryside. It was in serious boulders, sagebrush, and corral country and the sign only indicated…
Chirp chirp!
Yesterday I calculated out my ingredient costs for bread. My forehead did not get very sweaty, despite such ‘solve for X’ problems as figuring out the per teaspoon costs of honey or yeast, when such things are sold by weight. …
Butt Jet
Last night my wife and I did what hundreds of millions of people worldwide do. No, I’m not talking about that. We looked at our paychecks and bills, and tried to figure out a way to make sure we are…
Ouchie
Baby Harbat took a spill this weekend. We were at the aquarium and she was Very Excited by all the fish. She took off down a concrete ramp outside, running full speed. I’ve never seen her feet that high off…
Fakeburger
This just in! I made a portobello mushroom "burger" on Saturday, and though it looked like dessicated elephant butt, it tasted just like a hamburger. While eating it, I forgot it wasn't a hamburger, which either says bad things about…
