Our Little Miss is 6 weeks old, she is so special to us, our fat little squishy baby!
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Wild Yeast
I have played and played around with sour dough and wild yeast off and on the last few years, and mostly I have found it tedious with unappetizing results. Regardless of the brick-like bread I had produced in the past, I still wanted to learn how to make a good sour dough bread and other items from wild yeast. Baking with wild yeast means that you gather the natural yeast from the environment, you don’t use any commercial leavening products, and you keep it alive in your “sour dough start”, just like they use to do it in the olden days.
Last time I was at Costco I saw the book “The Art of Baking With Natural Yeast” by Caleb Warnock and Melissa Richardson and I had to buy it.
Monday I prepared my start. I combined one cup freshly ground wheat flour and one cup water, put it in a jar and covered with a cloth. By that evening it was already starting to bubble with yeast and by Wednesday night it had doubled and was ready to use. This very morning I made sour dough banana pancakes from the recipe book. I was a little worried about how the kids would react, they weren’t fluffy pancakes, like those that use baking powder, and they have a sour taste (very mild) however, the family loved them! I am so excited to try some other recipes, including bread.
Yes, I am still alive
Barely….
Some days it is all about survival and some days we thrive!
So I have been thinking:
– 1 year olds are funny little monkeys, Little Lady keeps me busy cleaning up her messes and laughing at her antics.
-One of the reasons God created nursing, so busy mama’s have to sit down and hold their babies.
-Sleep is a good thing
-I want a farm house on a lot of land, I would like to drive down my own lane to get to the farm house. I would also like a barn, and I want to grow heirloom tomatoes.
-It takes a lot of energy to run a household with 9 people in it.
-I don’t like homework, I didn’t like it when I was a kid, and I don’t like it now that my kids have to do homework. It seems like my kids have much more homework (aka busy work) than I ever did and at earlier ages. Makes me consider homeschool.
-I love birthing at home, I wish I had done it with all my kids.
-Speaking of birthing, I need to write down Little Miss’ birth story, but I hesitate to do it, it was kind of hairy (2 1/2 days laboring) and I don’t want people to tell me I did it wrong….
-I need to work on a budget and start saving money like a crazy person if I am to ever have that farm house, barn and lane.
-Laundry is my enemy. If I have to pick between a nap and folding laundry I pick the nap. Did I mention that Little Miss isn’t sleeping though the night? Laundry can wait.
-I want to have more children, but not right now.
-I plan to blog regularly again, I just wish I knew how to attract more readers…..
Have a good day!
