Strays have been given their dry food. Time for brekkie, shower and off I go.
Have a great day everyone ❤️
Edit: I forgot about the morning train squash lol
Have a great day!
Good luck 🤞🏻 have a great day
Have the best day!
Have a good day, I hope everything goes well
Good luck. hugs
Mr Professional!
Tell us how it goes
First day went well!
I share an office with the head of sales which is pretty sweet.
A lot to take in and I’m getting home a bit later because I stayed back for a bit longer.
Got taken out to lunch with leadership team and that was pretty cool!
Tired and have to feed the cat family lol
Glad to hear it went well!
Thanks man. I mean work is work but it’s nice to be somewhere where they actually respect your opinion.
#winning
#couldn’thavedoneitwithoutarms
🤣
This is good. :)
You so deserve this.
Baked a loaf this morning before work after proving overnight. I can’t believe how soft the crumb is for a sourdough. Of course now it’s mostly gone 😄
Edit: could do with a bread knife that doesn’t butcher the loaf. This loaf was actually cool when I cut it 🤦🏼♀️
Well done! I’ve never been able to master the overnight proving, it ends up walking everywhere!
Chuck the bowl in the crisper drawer of your fridge. 12 hours is about right for fridge proving. This assumes that your fridge is 6 deg C consistently.
This was the method I tried first and just couldn’t get it to work. Way too dense and no lift. I’ve made a lot of pizza and cake in my time so I started treating it like a combination of both of those and it worked fine. Well, it makes a loaf that we enjoy eating anyway.
It never works, its like it goes into the fridge and stops proving all together. Its okay if I want a Frisbee of sourdough, not a loaf. I might be putting it in too early but I’m happy to benchtop prove for now.
Same goes for me. I just couldn’t get it to work or make the kind of loaf that we all can enjoy.
Include a smashed up boiled potato in the dough - yeast goes nuts when it meets potato. I usually keep back some mashed spud and put that in the starter sponge. Works well for me. Also for the fridge proving, you’ve gotta cover the bowl well with clingfilm. Maybe fridge is less than 6 degrees?
Definitely fridge is less than 6°C, it’s usually around 2°C and everything up the back gets partly frozen! Thanks for the info about potato, I had no idea about that!
If your fridge is reliably less than 6 degrees, then forget about fridge proving. Yeast is very flexible, but lower than that temp it dies. If you have a cold bathroom that’s above 6 degrees, that might work better for proving. Just remember to take it back into the kitchen before the family showers en masse.
My starter wants to take over the world 🤣
the crust is too soft
take out of tin and bake another 15 minutes, people tend to undercook bread nowadays
It was perfect for me, any harder and a) my knife wouldn’t have been up to the job and b) the oldest 2 members of the household can’t chew it 🤣. I know some people like their bread super crusty but we just can’t do it at our place 😔
Just found out I didn’t land the job I was really desperate for and looking forward to, which was very uniquely suited to me.
so many hugs
and good luck for the future
Ah dang, sorry to hear that for you.
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you land what you’re looking for :)
Miss Meow is in full snore mode this morning. I think I like her plans for the day, turn your back on the grey outside and snooze.
I mis-typed that the first time as “turn your back on the grey outside and sneeze”, which is actually also appropriate at this hayfever inducing time of year.
The Monday blues have hit extra hard this morning.
I’d love to be curled up like Miss Meow 😆
same 🥲
i try not to think about anything
but woke up angry!?
and have already cried once this morning
Man, Springvale Rd is always shit traffic. With all the speed limit changes and people not paying attention it feels like everyone just does 50 instead of 60/70/80. Fuck Springvale Rd.
Overheard on the way home: “You can un-wrinkle your nuts?!”
Don’t leave me hanging
That’s part of the cool thing about nut wrinkles, they actually control how you hang
With an iron
Toasted nuts
operation UnKAOS on target
all the chores done now for some reading, I am reading a book on driving skills. :)
That’s great news!
I’m UnKAOSing my laundry rn.
Currently doing the garage / workshop.
Surprisingly not as painful as I thought considering how much shit is in there. Some stuff (very well made old school wooden handle chisels etc.) would be my late grandfathers so probably 70-80-ish years old.
I love old tools 👍
Pakige contained some cheap slip on shoes, which are now at the back door in case I need to go out to the garden that way. The new house having more doors has meant I also need more shoes, The hard bit now is making sure I always go back in the same door I exited from so I can reclaim my slippers.
nah, you get into the habit of kicking them off and putting them at the right door
Accidental poppy patch about to go. Ol’ girl: “oh I only threw a few seeds in”.
Yea…
On your way to start a personal opium empire. Noice.
Now that Afghanistan is outta the game I’ll clean up!
Only have to contend w/ tassie but they only do 50% of the worlds production so they don’t stand a chance.
these are lovely and timely too, tomorrow is 11/11
I have these pop up in my lawn. I think I planted a packet 10 years ago!
I feel bad because the cats got rained on waiting for me to get home. Hopefully now they’ll realise I’m not back till later
Still 6?
There’s 8 total now. We had some new additions
Someone needs to do a painting of that lol. It’s perfect in every way.
So cute 😻
Air fried panko onion rings for starters tonight:
First time for the rings in the air thingo. Worked well. Now wondering about calamari, same method hrmmm…
that looks delicious
I had chicken and vegies in a honey sauce and rice, it was not half as nice as your dish
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Omg I forgot breakfast. No wonder today has been such a slog. I’ll take a few beers please
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a squall came through while I was down at the beach
exciting and I wasn’t the only crazy out there, all the fishermen were leaving to go out on the bay
Dramatic! 😍
in an instant it went from mild to freezing cold sleet and high wind
I’m not worried about getting caught in bad weather at the beach as it’s not too far and I can be warm and get dry clothes shortly
