Bread and Stuff

So, this weekend I decided to try to make some bread…it was a good attempt, but it could definitely use some improvement. It makes good toast, but needs to be a little less “doughy” to use as a sandwich bread. I think the cure may be a combination of letting it bake an extra few minutes, decreasing the water by a couple of tablespoons (because it seemed a little sticky) and letting it raise a little longer the second time to get a little less dense bread. Maybe I’ll make attempt number 2 next weekend. Here are a couple of pictures of the first attempt.

So I’ve also been trying to learn a little more about my camera before we go on vacation in a couple of weeks. I don’t know how much I’m really learning, but I’ve taken A LOT of pictures. The flowers in the back yard and the bread pictured above have been my most recent test subjects. Here are some of the flowers.

Let’s see I also hit the Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning for my usual fresh fruit run…I love all the berries and cherries that are there this time of year. We also have a guy out of Concord that comes to our market with Afghan foods. I stopped and tried some of the stuff for the first time on Saturday and it was DELICIOUS!! I bought a spinach bolini, whole wheat pita bread, sweet jalapeno jelly, and garlic mint cheese….mmmm makes me hungry just thinking about it!

I also washed my car this morning which was VERY necessary. Especially since someone else is riding in my car with me down to SLO tomorrow morning. At the very least I needed to empty the case of empty water bottles out of the floor of my back seat (there may have been 2 cases :P). And we emptied out the spa and refilled it this morning too. I think it’s almost back up to temperature.

And finally we spent a couple of hours at our neighbor’s graduation party this afternoon. He just graduated from high school yesterday.

So, now that it’s almost 6pm I’m thinking about what I might make for dinner tonight….maybe filet with a tomato, basil, eggplant, mozzarella caprese style salad and I’m not sure what else yet, but at least it’s a start.