If you think my boules are impressive, you should see my baton.
If you think my boules are impressive, you should see my baton.
Work, Sadamasa Motonaga
oil and gravel on canvas.
Back to work today. This seems vaguely human-shaped which would make the messy top part the head and so maybe the mental state. It could be that the artist had something else in mind but that's my reaction to it. I love that they used gravel to get that texture.
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"I Ask For Bread": Ukrainian Drone Helped An Elderly Woman In Kostyantynivka
https://charter97.org/en/news/2026/1/20/670546/
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I usually make my own bread, but I’ve given up baking for now because of fatigue issues. It occurred to me the other day that I could get a bread machine.
I was walking past Noel Leeming today so I had a look there. This is when I discovered that bread machines are no longer in fashion. They only had one - the display model - and weren’t going to get any more. It was on a very good special and when I pointed out a couple of scratches and dints they knocked more off the price!
Then I was at the library so I looked for bread machine cookbooks. They had to fetch them from the stack for me. More evidence that bread machines aren’t as popular as they once were!
Made Claire Saffitz's Kabocha Turmeric Tea Cake from *Dessert Person*.
There are these really tasty cumin cookies that you can get at Indian markets in the US and, occasionally, a Sikh-owned truck stop with a small Indian foods section. (Speaking from experience!)
The flavor of this bread reminds me of those cookies! Turmeric, garam masala, kabocha, and sugar, dotted with pumpkin seeds. Sort of perfect, really.
Great flavor, maybe ate a little dry. I thought about adding a bit of moisture to the squash mash next time, since the only real moisture in the bread was 2 eggs, some maple syrup, and some vanilla extract.
Fermenting revolution
“The scientific and technological battle against bad bread had a role in women’s liberation.”
A spot opened up in the Artisan Bread course that's taught on campus and I have zero dollars to take it this semester. I'd LOVE to take it. It meets Fridays & Saturdays & I bet they're going to make outstanding bread. Hopefully it will be available next semester, but if I get a full time job there's no way I'll be able to do it because it meets during the day.