Lucy is known for her multi grain breads with lots of different stuff added to the mix. With the Pope coming to America this week and in keeping with his vow of living simply Lucy really tried to turn over a new leaf. She used 1 grain only, half of it sprouted, where the hard bits were sifted out and fed to 2 different levains.
I am reminded of my favorite mythical philosopher; Yoda, who said ‘Try Not! Do or do not. There is no try! Yesterday was a day to try men’s souls – if there were any men. or women, left in the world.
The Fed was supposed to raise interest rates a lousy quarter point from and eighth of a point where it has been for 7 years as the entire world melted down because a few people couldn’t pay their mortgages back to the banks in the USA.
On one of the darkest days in American history; 9/11, Lucy went deep in her bag of tricks to come up with a new very dark bread indeed. In the past year, her 2 favorite dark breads were the Really Dark Old School Sprouted Pumpernickel – In memory of Barbra, another dark day for Fresh Lofians and Lucy’s Take on Adri’s Westphalian Rye
Lucy couldn’t remember the last time we made pizza…. especially one made with YW. We made this one plain as could be with 20% pre-fermented flour and an equal amount of YW in this case 80g each. 320 g of LaFama AP dough flour, 203 g of dough water and 2% salt.
Here we are again, out of everything except Dark and WhiteSD bread. So we had a choice of making bagels, sandwich slims, biolatta’s (Warp Drive Biyaly’s), English muffins, pizza dough – you name it - we are all out. Since we made a huge pile of smoked pulled pork last weekend, we seceded to go with the sandwich slims to surround it in
Today is the day that all the Star Wars Stuff goes on sale. We thought it would never arrive. Now you can buy a Hans Solo action figure as 70 year old, retired, wannabe Jedi Knight. Lucy was just besides herself. I think she has a thing for older Jedi’s, even if they aren’t but you have to admit, Hans has a little bit more going for him than Jar Jar does.
After Abe’s recent success with his new yeast water, Lucy went looking for our cherry YW in the back of the fridge where it has been neglected for months. Plus, I was bit shaken with Lucy’s latest attempts to make all of us redundant and nothing shakes the Lucy Blues she creates with her computer apps as much as a nice jar of cherry yeast water. It was time to give it some refreshment.
Earlier this week, Lucy posted her 10 things to think about when trying to make a healthier, better looking and tastier sourdough bread. We all know that there are dozens and dozens of ways to make breads of all kinds with none being right for everyone. But, wouldn’t you know it, the virtual ink wasn’t even dry yet and Lucy was out there trying to do something different. Oh my!
