Potatoes?

Last week was potato bread week. For reasons unknown, even to me, I made potato bread two days in a row. I made the first two potato bread recipes listed in The New Complete Book of Breads : Sister Jennie’s Potato Bread (p 360) and Potato Bread (p 363).\par
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My conclusion? The crust of Sister Jennie’s [...]

Song in my Head

Yesteday I started singing a song as we were finishing dinner. Remembering that I’ve instructed Judah “sing at the table, whistle in bed, and the devil will get you before your dead” I stopped and said, “Oh, Mommy’s not supposed to sing at the table, is she!” Or something like that. But then Judah asked [...]

Challah Bread

Using Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice I made a recipe of Challah bread yesterday for our fellowship gathering today. I should’ve taken picture of it, but I put it off, and now – it’s all gone. Funny how that happens. But it was really good, and looked really pretty (I made a 3-strand braided [...]

6 Years!

Wow – today was a busy day! Today was our sixth anniversary, and to celebrate Michael took me to see the Street of Dreams in Oregon City. But first we had to take KD to the airport and then continue on up to Vancouver to drop the boys off at Grandma and Grandpas.\par
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The Street of [...]

Grandma and Grandpa’s House

I’ve been to my parents house twice in the last three weeks: the first time two weeks ago for 4 nights, and the second time this last weekend for 2 nights. I wrote a big long post about my visit in July with the boys (Michael was on a business trip to Illinois), but I [...]