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[Gardening with Rabbits]

Now and then, I have become a little obsessed with this and that. I was just thinking about my Jerusalem artichoke obsession and, perhaps, responding to @Dahlia 's new thread.

Sourdough bread is delicious but, I found that I could use the starter for pancakes. It's not quite as good in pancakes and I'm not very much a fan of pancakes to begin with, so ... I drifted away. You know, it takes some dedication to keep that starter goin'!

Steve

I am exhausted. LOL I feel like I have a new baby to take care of. I have had Herman sourdough starters and regular sourdough and I went on a little kick of making spelt or rye bread with starter, but I always give up after awhile. I kept telling DD I would start making sourdough and give her a starter and she gave up waiting on me and asked somebody for a starter and when she first got hers, she was like this is a lot of work and I said that people name their starters, it is like having a new baby and she agreed. LOL My problem is with this and when making kombucha tea or sauerkraut is my house temperature. In the winter I can put kombucha on a mat and keep even temperature, but in the summer, too warm for the mat during the day, but at night it is too cold. I finally moved the sourdough starter to the office where it is warmer. DD borrowed her mother-in-law's waffle iron and she is going to try sourdough waffles. She made pop tarts and she said she wants to make crackers. DS really likes homemade bread and things but saw how much work it was and said he can see the sourdough starter is going to end up down the drain and I thought I can see you making lots of trips to Costco for sacks of flour. LOLL DD is making it to be healthy for her family, but they also stocked up on extra food with all the toilet paper goings on and then again lately with prices going up. I used to do that when I had money, but lately, I have decided it is impossible really to stock up all that is needed and I had read that it would take 300 pounds of flour for baking 1 small loaf of bread a day for I think 3 or 6 months. Making your own bread is not really cheap anymore, but maybe it is, I don't know, but I will be buying a lot more flour than usual. We buy bread for meals, but we do not eat many sandwiches. DB comes over for usually 3 or 4 meals a week and he said he does not like sourdough bread. I am thinking of making sourdough cornbread and not tell him I put sourdough in it and see if he likes it. He likes to come when we have chili and cornbread for supper. Picture is my 3 loaves of bread.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I watched a lot of videos and saw so many different ideas and how people do this. One guy only kept jar scrapings. My mother used to keep Herman sourdough starter and I have in the past too. It was hard for me at first with this to get a routine. Watching videos of these girls with a scale and measuring in grams about wore me out, and I am not doing that. I watched a video and some man said they even put a potato in the starter, so I decided this is not going to be rocket science and have to weigh things. I pretty much over the years know when it is healthy and happy and I did tell DS I would make sourdough brownies and he came home with a sack of chocolate chips, but there will be raspberry coffee cake and sourdough zucchini bread.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Today it is going to be 66 degrees!!!! I think my kale, collards, cabbage and onions can stay in the greenhouse now outside. I will start putting them in the partial sun in the mornings and then in the sun soon. I am hoping to get early things in the ground early this year.

 

[ninnymary]

Gardening, it is really easy to make sourdough once a week. I also buy my flour in #50 bags that I keep in an extra freezer. I figured it comes out to about $1 a loaf and that is using organic flour.

The hardest part for me is to weather I want to be tied up making the dough on a morning or afternoon. So depending on my schedule or plans I will work around that. I make a killer chocolate sourdough that has cocoa, peanut butter chips and chocolate chips. It is sooo good with cream cheese. In fact I am having a slice right now with my jasmine tea. Delicious!

Mary

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Grilled cheese and coffee for breakfast this morning!

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I had my coffee and getting the house ready. I am watching Evelyn and Isabelle this morning while DD and husband go to the ultrasound and today is the day to find out boy or girl. I made sourdough brownies yesterday, but really DS and I both thought not that good. I am going to cut in small squares and freeze and when I do not have any snacks in the house and wanting something sweet, it is chocolate, so it will be good then.

 

[digitS']

Stuffed crust vegetarian pizza and a ..

. blood orange.

Does that sound strange to you? I know that many folks will have leftover pizza for breakfast but blood oranges? Why that name? Really, they are a magenta orange, I'd say . I can still remember the first time that I had pizza, at the first pizza joint that came to town. I was probably about 12 .

Steve

 

[baymule]

I went to Tyler today to see about my knee. I talked with a PA first, he acknowledged that my left knee is toast, but gave me this blather about cortisone shots, every 3 months. And something he called a lubricant every 6 months. I asked for details on that and he admitted that it really didn’t do much. So I had to set him straight. First off, I’m not doing cortisone. Second, why would I waste my time on a shot that doesn’t do anything.
He was trying to explain that they just don’t rush people in and chop off their knees, but try treatment first. I told him I was beyond treatment and I knew it. I told him that I live a VERY active life. Maybe he thought I went to the mall and went shopping??

Then I proceeded to tell him my schedule for the next few months. Buy a farm. Move—AGAIN. Build fence. Build a barn. Chainsaw trees. I raise sheep and have big dogs to guard them. I explained how I raised a couple of feeder pigs each year, meat chickens, a garden AND I wanted to get horses again and get my life back. By this time, his eyes were bugged out. Then I told him I was going to be busy until July, that I was going to Tennessee to buy a ram. So, by mid July I could slow down enough for surgery.

So don’t jerk my chain on injections, I’m not doing it. Snicker, snicker, giggle, giggle. Poor guy, he walked into an alligator trap. SNAP!

So he decided to go get the doctor. Ya’ THINK?

Dr came in, gave me a hug and told me he was so sorry about BJ. He really liked BJ. We chatted a bit, he gave me another hug and sent his schedule nurse in to get it set up.

Knee replacement surgery July 19. Pre-Op and CAT scan and a class scheduled a week before I go to Tennessee. Done. Boom! Talk treatment crap to other people, not ME. I KNOW what I want, I KNOW what I need. Let’s get this show on the road!

Hahaha, the look on the PA’s face was priceless! Hahaha!!!

 

[seedcorn]

I went to Tyler today to see about my knee. I talked with a PA first, he acknowledged that my left knee is toast, but gave me this blather about cortisone shots, every 3 months. And something he called a lubricant every 6 months. I asked for details on that and he admitted that it really didn’t do much. So I had to set him straight. First off, I’m not doing cortisone. Second, why would I waste my time on a shot that doesn’t do anything.
He was trying to explain that they just don’t rush people in and chop off their knees, but try treatment first. I told him I was beyond treatment and I knew it. I told him that I live a VERY active life. Maybe he thought I went to the mall and went shopping??

Then I proceeded to tell him my schedule for the next few months. Buy a farm. Move—AGAIN. Build fence. Build a barn. Chainsaw trees. I raise sheep and have big dogs to guard them. I explained how I raised a couple of feeder pigs each year, meat chickens, a garden AND I wanted to get horses again and get my life back. By this time, his eyes were bugged out. Then I told him I was going to be busy until July, that I was going to Tennessee to buy a ram. So, by mid July I could slow down enough for surgery.

So don’t jerk my chain on injections, I’m not doing it. Snicker, snicker, giggle, giggle. Poor guy, he walked into an alligator trap. SNAP!

So he decided to go get the doctor. Ya’ THINK?

Dr came in, gave me a hug and told me he was so sorry about BJ. He really liked BJ. We chatted a bit, he gave me another hug and sent his schedule nurse in to get it set up.

Knee replacement surgery July 19. Pre-Op and CAT scan and a class scheduled a week before I go to Tennessee. Done. Boom! Talk treatment crap to other people, not ME. I KNOW what I want, I KNOW what I need. Let’s get this show on the road!

Hahaha, the look on the PA’s face was priceless! Hahaha!!!

Did he get on your wrong side or what?

 

[flowerbug]

Stuffed crust vegetarian pizza and a ..

. blood orange.

Does that sound strange to you? I know that many folks will have leftover pizza for breakfast but blood oranges? Why that name? Really, they are a magenta orange, I'd say . I can still remember the first time that I had pizza, at the first pizza joint that came to town. I was probably about 12 .

Steve

when i'm really hungry i'm not too picky about what. i happen to like some dishes like crispy orange chicken or sweet and sour chicken which can have citrus in it so why not give it a try? i would.