Food Friday: Sort of Sourdough Bread

Today was quite a day.  So busy.  So ready for bed.  So probably a short post this time.

So today I did a bunch of things that wore me down.  I will make a list then put it in my journal, sort of killing two birds with one stone, or in this case, three birds since I am posting it here!

1.  Went through bins and boxes still in garage looking for file folders and the small fan I am sure we brought.  Did not find them.

2.  Brought two loads of boxes and bins upstairs to the workroom.  You now can hardly get around in it. I am hoping the people come of Friday to take away the broken file cabinet. I also hope to get things a bit more organized before they get here.

3. Rinsed and drained the wheat I am trying to sprout.

4.  Added another cup of whole wheat flour and a cup of water to the sourdough starter I am trying to make.

5.  Started that YouTube sourdough bread at 9 AM and told Dear One about it.  He was waiting anxiously at noon and told me that it did not look like it had risen double.  Well, it was not supposed to.

6. At noon I started the oven preheating and put the dutch oven in to preheat at the same time.

7.  35 minutes later I put the dough in the dutch oven and baked it for 35 minutes, removed from oven, took off the cover, then baked 10 more minutes.  Dear One was ready to eat it at that moment.  I let him cut some.  He thought it was bland but he had not put any butter on it.  I buttered a slice and gave it to him. I ate several buttered slices, though most of them were half slices since I gave the other half to Dear One.  By the time I was done my belly was screaming at me.

8.  Made some "Darn Good Sausages" which really were not very good.  Well, no salt in them plus all the spices should have been doubled.  I am going to try a different vegan sausage in a day or two.  I rolled these in egg roll wrappers because I could not find rice papers anywhere in Sumter.  Rats.  They worked ok. I cooked them in the air fryer and they did come out nice and crisp and brown.  Dear One thought they were okay which just about put me on the floor.  He never ceases to surprise me.  I was sure he would hate them.  Their main ingredient is oatmeal.

9.  Learned how to toast English muffins in the air fryer.  (You need to butter them first...)

10.  Made some muscadine grape jam.

The story on the grape jam is that many MANY years ago we had a neighbor in Vermont who was from one of the Carolina's.  She told me about how fabulous muscadine grapes were. I had never heard of them. Well, yesterday I saw some at Piggly Wiggly and bought a package.  Last night I bit into one. OH MY GOODNESS!  I spit it into the garbage disposal.  Today I looked online to see what I could do with those grapes. I found a jam recipe.  I did not really do it like that so some day I may blog about it BUT may I say you cannot go wrong with a cup and a half of sugar added to almost anything...

11.  Made some bean-y sauce from the Engine 2 Diet book by Rip Esselstyn.  Not very good, though it was edible.  Since I like the idea, I will food with it to see if I can make it better.

12.  Went to the Food Lion to get milk for Dear One and found they DO have the Beyond Meat burgers, and are several dollars less than at Price Chopper in West Lebanon!  They taste pretty good.  Sort of the same texture as real burgers and HALF the calories. It is pea protein and other stuff.  Larger Burger King stores have what they call the Impossible Whopper which is these Beyond Burgers as a whopper.  We each had one after Dear One's blood draw yesterday and after we got South Carolina drivers' licenses and number plates.

There some other things I made today but cannot remember them.  Dear One put up a pingpong ball so it would hang down to where we need to stop the car in the garage.  That was a good piece of work.  I was always worrying about whether I would hit the shelving unit in front or leave the back end where the garage door would hit it going down.  Now we don't have to worry as much...

So I am showing all these pictures to prove that I really was so ill-advised as to do all this stuff today.  When will I learn to not run faster than I am able.  When...

Anyway, as I sit here typing I keep scratching my head.  As soon as the bug man left after spraying all around both the outside and inside of the house, I had a small bug jump on my arm.  It took a few tries for me to eradicate it. Then while in the kitchen a flying creature kept dive-bombing me.  So annoying.  And now I feel like there are bugs in my hair. And crawling on my legs, though I cannot see anything in either place... REALLY annoying.  I guess it is time to close up shop for the day and stand in the shower with Dr. Bronner's soap to kill anything that might be there.  If Dr. Bronner's does that!