serindrana | Entries tagged with baking

David's parents are going away for a week! YES!

Going to switch my day off to Monday so I can do some baking/long term cooking for the week. :)

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cherith and I have embarked upon two great quests: One, turning our Cauthrien/Teagan RP (War is Never Cheap Here) into fic (which is going smashingly - we're up through almost chapter four, in under a week from the start of the RP). Two, coming up with cowritten original fiction.

I am excite.

To any writers on my f-list (lookin' at you,

heddychaa), any experiences with/tips on cowriting? How do you divvy up writing responsibilities? Do you write the scenes together, or only plan them?

With Cauth/Teagan, the way we wrote them leant well to just removing whoever's POV we needed to remove via editing (and then, more edits for style, coherency, etc), but I'm not sure that's the best way to continue for an original piece, especially since it'll likely have a broader cast.

(Also, we need to come up with a name for our joint writing account on LJ.)

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I have a tumblr! :D

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I really want to replay Heavy Rain but it's at home...

F-list, I have to tell you:

If you never learn to cook or bake anything else in your life, learn how to make your own bread. Even if you only make it every so often as a treat. It's so easy and so amazing and I just made a loaf over the last four-ish hours. It is delicious. It is also 1 AM, and I have warm, fresh, crusty bread, covered in butter.

For your use, I present the base recipe from Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. The whole book is totally worth it, as it also contains tips and many many recipes that use this as a starting point, but this basic recipe? Is what I lived off this summer, and what I made tonight.

I play a little loose with the proportions, making it until it feels right, but the recipe produced great bread the first time I ever tried it. I add sugar to my bread, or honey, but just a little (usually less than a teaspoon), just enough to give the yeast something to munch on. You can use whole-wheat flour, but unless you add something called vital wheat gluten, you're going to get a really dense loaf. (I think a 50/50 mix of white and whole wheat works okay, though.)

GO OUT!

MAKE BREAD!

HAVE DELICIOUSNESS!

Current Mood: determined

In a few hours, I'm off to the airport, and from there to Denver, and from there to Wyoming!

But before I go, here's the promised in-progress weaving pictures of

robinhood's scarf, and some bonus pictures of the bread I baked from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.

First the weaving.

Here's a shot of my loom: