This is a walnut bread. It always happens that we run out of honey when making bread. In my head, molasses is also a sticky sweet substance, so I usually top it off with that.
I was super impressed with how well it puffed up. Its proofing box magic.
These turned out a little blurry, but it looks like a legit slice of bread! With the little ridge on top and everything. Just like the professionals.
And then we made some super awesome grilled cheeses!
What are you watching this summer? During those too hot weekend summer afternoons, we tend to hole up in a shady room and watch shows. We’ve been watching Downtown Abbey together, and then we recently started watching Orphan Black, so naturally we are almost done with it. If you haven’t seen it yet, Orphan Black is amazing. The same person plays a lot of the characters, and we have to continually exclaim out loud how much our minds are blown.
If the whole world could smell like cinnamon, I would like that. But I will settle for the smell of baking cookies.
Photos of some weekend things:
1. Pretty hanging plant while eating some tacos.
2. Kicking back with a puzzle.
3. Making spring rolls!
1. Do you ever stalk airbnb? This is a houseboat in Paris next to the Eiffel Tower. 2. Obsessed with this garden, and how green it is. 3. An instagram full of bread pictures. 4. Pretty shoes. 5. Breakfast tacos with avocado and radish salsa. Did you know we love breakfast tacos?
Basically gonna spend the weekend watching these seeds grow. I have a book to finish reading too. So much to do. Happy August!
We’ve had an unfortunate encounter with some bugs in the past couple days. We lost a couple melon plants, but I think we’ve saved at least one. I sat by the door all day yesterday waiting for the earth to arrive.
I’m still in awe that we grew this cucumber wall from seeds. They definitely don’t like the hot hot sun, but they get quite a bit of shade from trees. And you can see the cucumbers on that back fence trying to make a run for it.
We have two okra plants, and they have already grown a couple feet at least. They make okra like machines, but we still are figuring out how to eat them…
We had a problem with pepper plants earlier in the season, so I am relieved that these ones seem to be doing much better. We have had dozens of jalepeno peppers, and are starting to get some green peppers too. And the random rocks are for holding the soaker hose in place, we aren’t just lazy leaving rocks everywhere.
This guy looks like he belongs in the desert, watching the sunset with a friendly cactus. Find him in the shop today.
A couple more prints I found today. I’m digging the “groups of things” look.
And look at these quirky little drawings and jewelry by Andsmile.
You know that cinnamon swirl bread with the raisins? I love that stuff. This is a little bit like a sourdough version of that. The dough has raisins and walnuts, then it is cinnamon-rolled up, and baked into bread.
The cinnamon-rolling process. I can’t resist a little taste of the cinnamon sugar.
In my head sometimes I’m like- this bread has to sit here for 30 minutes, so I might as well keep busy and make something else while I wait. Then all the sudden I am taking cookies out of the oven and trying to do 6 things at once while making a huge mess.
Can you see the swirl??
guy and his girl 