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Monday is my usual breadmaking day but we have a lot going on this week – almost every day there’s something, and I need the entire morning to get bread made. I only make whole wheat breads now – with fresh milled flour. Usually I’ll make plain sandwich bread and something else. It may be...

I know, it's been a while. I'm still here... still sewing up a storm. If you recall, from a former post, my latest obsession was the wedge block. Well, I'm still at it with this strip pieced variation. These wedges appear to be spinning out of control! This 16 block small wall quilt measures 28" square right now, I have plans for borders; we'll see how this progresses. Now, back to the scrappy

I know, it's been a while. I'm still here... still sewing up a storm. If you recall, from a former post, my latest obsession was the wedge block. Well, I'm still at it with this strip pieced variation. These wedges appear to be spinning out of control! This 16 block small wall quilt measures 28" square right now, I have plans for borders; we'll see how this progresses. Now, back to the scrappy

A friend sent me a link to this site and she told me it has some good info. It has a LOT of excellent info. I haven’t gone through it all yet but what I have read was very informative. Thought some of you might enjoy it.

First off, let me tell you I have not tried this recipe but I’ve never had a recipe from Alexandra’s Kitchen that I haven’t loved so I have no reservations about sending you on a path I have not yet traveled. Second, we’re not eating any processed, store bought white flour so, for me to...

Tuesday! What a busy day. At 4 a.m. with the wind was so noisy that it woke me up. I tried to go back to sleep but at 5, I got up and it’s been a busy day. Monday is my bread making day but yesterday we were so busy working in the sewing room...

This is another one of those posts when I feel the need for a disclaimer of sorts. It’s frustrating to me when I have something I REALLY want to share and, as the post develops in my head, I’m thinking it sounds a bit like virtue signaling. Believe me, my road to fantastic whole wheat...

Several of you asked about the jailhouse rolls. I have made these rolls probably 100+ times but it’s been 30 years since I made them so I was a bit nervous. I remembered that the texture of the dough was different from most bread I make but I couldn’t remember exactly how it was supposed...

There are plenty (like everyone!) of folks who know more about sourdough bread making than I do but I’ve always wondered why you feed the starter, let it rise and then fall and then fall and that’s when you use it. Normally, I will feed my starter the night before when I’m going to make...

Yesterday I made Salt Rising Bread. I’m not sure what it is about Fall that makes me want it. Maybe it’s because it’s so time consuming and finicky to make and after the summer’s garden and canning, I feel like I need a challenge. Maybe because Salt Rising Bread makes the best croutons and I...

There were football games for Vince to watch today so he sat downstairs with the dogs and I had almost the whole day to myself in the kitchen. The beans are in the canner now and, as soon as they are out of the canner and I can get pictures, I will have a blog...

Summer is my least favorite season. It’s my own fault but there’s so much to do with the garden and with canning and putting up as much produce as I can so we’ll have homemade goodies through the winter. I got a big bag of pickling cucumbers so I’ve been making pickles. I surely don’t...

This post is not to try to convince anyone to grind wheat and make flour and bake your own bread. This is most for those few of you who have the mill, have the wheat, have tried it and weren’t happy with the results but haven’t totally given up yet. It was in 2007 or...

No, not a quilt finish but a finish nonetheless. I believe that I started this one the summer before last but it's done, in a frame and ready for its close up! I had to laugh when I read Mary's Country Threads blog the other day and she referred to quilters who've taken up cross stitch as "jumping ship"! I haven't gone all in, as in totally overboard, but I do stitch to unwind in the

No, not a quilt finish but a finish nonetheless. I believe that I started this one the summer before last but it's done, in a frame and ready for its close up! I had to laugh when I read Mary's Country Threads blog the other day and she referred to quilters who've taken up cross stitch as "jumping ship"! I haven't gone all in, as in totally overboard, but I do stitch to unwind in the

Yesterday I made two loaves (really, they’re boules but I just call them loaves) of sourdough. I’m impressed with my new starter. I had heard on a youtube that adding a few tablespoons of rye to the starter really makes it crazy active but Chad said he read that using rye can introduce harmful organisms....

A couple of weeks ago Chad and Nicole were here and Nicole asked for some of my sourdough starter. For the first time in years and years, I didn’t have a sourdough starter. I didn’t have any in the fridge, didn’t have any dried in the freezer . . I had none. I told her...

This morning I was grinding wheat to make bread and I’ve been showing Vince the process. I turn the “basket” all the way to where I hear the stones grinding against each other and then back off just a little so as not to damage the stones but still get the finest flour I can...

After making the Ezekiel bread the other day, I wanted to try it again using two of the longer Pullman pans instead of three cast iron shorter loaf pans. We’ve been cutting on the back loaf. Chad, Nicole and Addie were coming by today so I gave them one loaf. This bread is not sandwich...

There have been several questions about the mill I recommend. First, please know that I am not trying to talk anyone into buying any of these things. There are a couple of machines I will recommend. There are many more and because I haven’t mentioned them does not mean they are not great . ....