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[pennyJo1960]

Salamander soup for dinner huh

 

[Beer can]

Morning Old Folks Sun is out but it is lying .. Suppose to have rain back this evening ...
I am so tired of 50 and wet

 

[pennyJo1960]

 

[ronott1]

Just took youngest boy and girl, dd caught one nice yellow perch. They did have fun catching salamanders on the shore.

Maybe some frog gigging next time?

 

[ShrekDawg]

It must have the visiting with your brothers Dogs that hurt your shoulder

Maybe! Although I see them a lot and it’s never happened before so

But I can’t really think of anything else I could have done. Except maybe my pillows aren’t great

 

[Perris]

It is the stretching, shaping and not over raising. My starter can't go much over an hour for the last rise. I also weigh the ingredients which make a big difference

Champlain Sourdough Bread

Ingredients

304g water
389g Bread flour (I used AP flour)
38g Whole spelt flour
19g Whole Rye Flour
50g Fed Starter at 100% hydration(fed half and half water and flour)
10g salt

Premix all ingredients at 9pm the night before baking bread. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Replenish the starter and leave out over night.
The next morning make the first fold at 7am (or when you get up)

look up the folding technique on you tube.

Let rest an hour and then fold again. Let raise half an hour and then shape into a ball using flour to keep the dough from sticking. Put the ball into a basket or a floured tea towel lined medium bowl with the seam side up. Let raise 1 to two hours until risen—should see a bubble or two on the outside of the dough.

Preheat Dutch oven with lid in 450-degree oven.

Cut a rectangle of parchment paper. When dough is risen, pour out onto the parchment paper. Make slashes. Take Dutch Oven out and carefully put the dough into the pan. Cover with lid and put back into the oven. Bake for 20 minutes.

Remove Dutch oven and move bread to a cool cookie sheet. Put back into the oven to let the outside crisp up—5 to 10 minutes

Thank you so much! I need to obtain a Dutch oven...

 

[ronott1]

Thank you so much! I need to obtain a Dutch oven...

They really do make a big difference in baking french bread

 

[microchick]

Rain, beautiful glorious rain! We needed it badly and finally got some coming down.

I can really empathize with that headache chart. Just had that happen with a corner of the quilt I am working on. Took it apart and repined it three times before I said it and decided that it was the inside corner and If I didn't show it to anybody, nobody would notice it!

All you on social security, did you get a stimulus check? We got one today in the mail. It was a very nice surprise. Only I think the People's Republic of China should be sending them out to everyone in every country.

Ye Gads, just looked out the window. The gutters are clogged....

 

[Peep_Show]

Still waiting on our stimulus check...which will be in the mail someday as we didn't direct deposit our IRS checks. HOWEVER, DH does direct deposit his Social Security payments. (He is a working senior)

 

[ronott1]

Still waiting on our stimulus check...which will be in the mail someday as we didn't direct deposit our IRS checks. HOWEVER, DH does direct deposit his Social Security payments. (He is a working senior)

You can go here to check: https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus-tax-relief-and-economic-impact-payments

There are some rules about SSI though