Still working to get-a-handle on the flour types. Ordered directly from a mill that grinds the grain on course stones. The order: French flour, German flour, flour mix for Abdijbread, and coarse flour for bread. If that wasn’t enough, from another mill: 3 grinds of flour, including spelt and from the market Italian flour. In …
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Foelie
This is a ‘who knew’! The nutmeg seed is a known spice to me, often grating it for extra flavor in all sorts of recipes. One day,’foelie’ jumped off the shelf. This spice is wonderfully soft in flavor-delicious in soup. Foelie is the membrane that surrounds the nutmeg seed, it is removed, dried and sold …
Sarah
The woman in this house is having her 50th birthday. All the world knows she has met Sarah. This is the biblical Sarah, the wife of Abraham. When a man hits 50 he meets indeed, Abraham. In former days both men and woman ‘met Abraham’ but someone in the 1960’s decided women deserved their own …
Do You Really Want to Know All This?
Three sides of a buttermilk carton. The product producer, side one, the family working with the product producer, side two and more details about both, side three. On the fourth side detailed information on the product.
Fishers: of men & bird
Biking past these men, and they are all men, I marvel at their endurance. Decided, as you see here, to take pictures. All was well until the last man standing politely asked me to move, as I was in his casting space. I love the heron standing by.
…Had a Dream…
Before consigning this to trash as ‘she’s lost it now’, give a read. The answer to the dream of which I will spare you the details is: do you have a copy of every document that you carry with you in your wallet/billfold/purse? Should you misplace it, in one way or another, can you replicate …
US/WE
But there is a positive side to the bulb plantings by them. After the bulbs, in all their splendor have bloomed on my kitchen windowsill I remove the bulbs from the pots and plant the bulbs in the back garden. This is the beginnings of the result this year. Figuring I have likely planted 30 …
Them vs Me
my spring bulb plantings grow like this. VS their spring bulb plantings: Thus the take-away is ‘what’s the question? Why bother!
Fire
This little fire/flame is wondrously cozy when it is ice and snow outside. The most amazing aspect is the fuel on which burns. Bio-ethanol. What are the benefits of Bioethanol? Bio-ethanol has a number of advantages over conventional fuels. It comes from a renewable resource i.e. crops such as cereals, sugar beet and maize and …
On Ice
Today’s activity: