Bread Baking Babes bake without flour. Huh?

Yup, that's right. We baked a flourless bread. Lynn invited us at her Kitchen Table and hosted this month with a Yeasted Sprouted Wheat Bread.

A Yeasted Sprouted Wheat bread.

Where you go to town, three times, check all health stores, come out empty handed.

Where you despair and finally decide to call someone you talk to every once in a while and secretly hope that it stays that way and doesn't evolve into coffee klatsch.

Where you call that person because she might be in the know how to obtain wheat berries. So you can sprout them. To bake Yeasted Sprouted Wheat Bread.

1.1/2 hour later... I have a new BFF, one new address to check and no wheat berries.

I 'm afraid I might have to be UnBabed. Because almost all Babes found wheat berries, succeeded in sprouting them and made bread with it. And I'm so in awe!!

Then ... we have some news for you. We have Babe news and Buddy news. Or Whom It May Concern news. As I have experienced lately there is something beside blogging that takes up time. It's called life. Life has to be taken seriously whether it's overhauling your house, taking care of loved ones, pursuing a career, navigating curved roads in any way. Sometimes life goes hand in hand with blogging, sometimes it's just too much of a thing.

Babes aren't any different in this than the next gal so some of us need a breather and to keep the flour flowing we've invited some new girls (and tested their stamina with this recipe..woooo we're Bad!). Let me introduce:

Astrid at Paulchens Foodblog

Elle at Feeding my Enthusiasms

Elizabeth at blog from OUR kitchen

Susan at Wild Yeast

Then there's the exciting (at least I think so) Buddy and Whom it may concern news:

We’d like you, everyone of you, to put your thinking caps on, pull out all your bread books and recipes and no not pick our next bread ... we want you to pick our Anniversary Bread for February 2011. That’s right, come about November, we’re going to ask you to mail us the recipe that you love the most or the recipe that scares you the most.

What's your favorite bread?
What bread haven't you ever been able to get to turn out the way you want?
What bread scares you the most?
What's the bread recipe you've baked the most?
What bread do you dream about baking?
etc.

We will be back with more news and how to go from here as we get closer to November. Stay tuned.

A knob is a knob or is it?

 

Trying to locate all my notes on cups vs grams. I know they are somewhere in this house. Haven’t found it yet so googling for conversions.

And found –among more practical notes- this:

A knob

Another definition for "knob" of butter is the amount of butter you get when you slice the corner of a block of butter to form an isosceles right-angled tetrahedron equal to half the height of the block of butter. This averages about 2 tsps.
(Copyright 2010 Practically Edible. All rights reserved and enforced.) Read more of this snippet here)

(picture from here)

Ah… maybe I’m more of a visual person.

I think I will revert to eyeballing…

Lost in space

Or maybe just lost in general. So many things to do, so many surfaces to clean. I just don’t know where to start. I think I envisioned a home when all the building was done. Couldn’t wait to get my stuff back in, use the kitchen, place a fresh bouquet of flowers on the tables and be all set.
Of course I knew I had to mob, scrub, wipe and clean but we would be back in business. Instead there’s a house and I need to work it into a home.

We need to get acquainted to the new, incorporate the old and embrace the whole. It will take some time that’s all. Note to self: lower the bar!

I guess I stumbled into a little black hole. No longer keeping track of builders, phone calls to make, making endless to do lists. Don’t be afraid, there’s plenty to do on my list, lots of little and not so little things to complete either by us or by the builders but I find myself stuck on a chair staring into space.

R2-D2 where are you ?

I tried to make pictures today some time ago on a grey day to show you the progress but they’re a bit humhum.

Boys are shaping chocolate chip cookies.

The new sofa’s in place, the credenza (word I learned and never forget!) is back.

This is our garden set, we’re going to get our dining table and chairs back tomorrow. We still need all light fixtures, so that’s why that one is standing there. Curtains. That too. Art on the walls. Decor in general.

Yay, some decoration going on here! The vintage coffee tins my grandmother gave me, a small box of Camarque salt and the Swedish Chef in place!

I wrote this quite some time ago, since then the situation has changed at least in a visual manner. Our dining table is back, I’ve been using the kitchen but found out I really have to get used to the stoven and oven. In the meantime we have been struck by uncharacteristically warm weather which left us gasping for air in a chair.
Decided to post this anyway. A start is a start right?