Daily Notes- April 18th

                                              

Baking No Knead Bread.  Having some difficulty with the Gold Medal Flour as it's not my usual  King Arthur.  Too soft.  Next time I will weigh the flour and not scoop.  It's cooling on the counter now and not pretty enough to take a picture.  But it's bread.  And it looks crusty.

I am thinking I might venture into a health food store to see if they have wheat berries.  I have the dry attachment for the VitaMix and can grind grain into flour.   I know wheat berries get rancid FAST so most stores probably do not stock them.  Perhaps they carry Maine Grains. They make superb flour. We have local flour and oats.  Very expensive but quite tasty.

Texting with our son last night- he had wanted to make biscuits but couldn't find any baking powder  or baking soda in the stores he goes to in California. You can make baking powder with cornstarch (?) and cream of tartar but he didn't have those things either.  Or is it baking soda and cream of tartar?

We are slipping into "flexible time" here in week five of quarantine.  Breakfast anywhere from 8 to noon (we have nowhere to be).  Lunch at 4 or 5 pm or later.  Supper- usually we forget about it and have a snack.  Cooking?  I am making soup mostly but we ARE enjoying the spaghetti and meatballs.  And I still have that very small quarter of a ham in the fridge.  Still sealed in it's packaging so- indefinitely available.  Husband has asked me to bake cookies. The ones that use up an entire large tub of sprinkles.

Dark today.  Threat of rain.  Hard to say if it will or won't.  He's going out to work in the garden. Clean out the birdbath.

Found an old vintage red linen tablecloth in the Magic Attic to use to make a "large cloth" robe or jacket for Jude Hill's new class on the internet.  Now need to measure myself.  Decide just how to make cuts so the jacket is lovely and wearable.  It will have additions appliquéd to it as it grows into itself.  I could have used a white linen twin top sheet as well.  But the red has some "weight" to it. Like a nice hug.  I think that will feel good.

So.....the news that The Man Who Doesn't Know How To Be President is inciting his followers to mingle in public (crowds) and not wear masks because he is anxious to have rallies without public distancing.  He wants the people to experience the "flavor" of the rallies.  Experience The Virus.
Part of me is screaming NO!!!  The other part says- people only learn from their mistakes.