Done!
Took a little longer than expected, but it was too cool tonight not to make the push to get this done. Now to get it all pressed and layered before anything happens to all those little seams!
Gotta say I really like it hanging there. It seems to photo “cooler” than it is in real life. The light greens tend towards a strong yellow-greenness in person.
St. H’s bible accompanied my seasonal breakfast this morning (small cheese omlette, eng. muffin, bowl of blackberries lightly sugared, coffee). Why? Well in part because I restarted my cultures Friday night and in part because I got some white whole wheat flour and wondered what I should know about it. The only thing I know for sure at the moment about it is that you can’t just add it to pizza dough and get the same results. Good results? Yes – nice bready pizza crust. Delicious but not crispy and crusty.
The cultures? Perking right along after one feeding. Isn’t it good to know that such wonderful stuff as yeasties are all around us, ready to do their thing to help nourish us with good bread?
Meanwhile, Fortune, maker of 32 inch rolling pins, tried out her wondrous new tool and reports that making fresh egg noodles:
anyway, pasta is one of those things that books make seem terribly complicated and difficult to create. actually, it’s even easier than ciabatta. Marcella herself somehow devotes about 12 pages to the process, making it seem rather like rocket science or nanotechnology or something. It’s nonsense. making the darn pin is waaay harder.
My mom talks of her mother making egg noodles on the kitchen table but I wasn’t fortunate enough to have had any of those. (When you’re mothering and feeding a family of 11, I’m sure the arrival of packaged noodles and convenience foods seemed heaven sent!) But my Mom’s description of the process mirror’s Fortune’s experience – well of flour, eggs, mix with hands, eventually roll out and slice.That awareness of what food is is, I believe, the missing key to getting folks to eat better. (That and reading the ingredient list for stuff you’re buying!)
5 more seams to sew….
5 more seams to sew….
5 more seams to sew….
Not much more to go….
The two kinds of people who exist in this world [at any one time] are the decent and the indecent. Color, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Kindness, decency and behavior are what matters most. Our collective challenge, it seems, is to create a city and community where decent people of all races, ethnicities and religions can look into the faces of other decent people and see only one thing — God’s image smiling back — Rabbi Micah Greenstein
Last night I watched the new Bill Moyers series. This one had Martin Amis and Margaret Atwood as guests. I was interested in hearing Margaret Atwood talking about faith and myths and she did not disappoint. Martin Amis succeeded in driving home to me just how confusing living in the world is today, but did present an interesting take on how today’s terrorism fits into history and current events, and how people are drawn into it. I was still left confused and bewildered by a world that can hold such a thing. You can go and listen for yourself.
Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
