I know it's taken me a bit to write another post. My apologies. Life has been tremendously busy, and I know I always say that. Mostly because it's true. With the Thanksgiving Holiday just past, a scary day of working retail on Black Friday (for any non-American readers, this is the day when we greedy Americans trample each other for not so great shopping deals the day after we proclaim our thankfulness over what we have, we love our hypocrisies over here). My weekend was so crazy it gave me a lovely cold which I have been suffering from the last two weeks and finally had to call in sick last night because I couldn't talk and could barely stand.
Yup, I have a hard problem 'resting'. I just can't stop until someone steps in and forces me to sit and relax. It's not a healthy way to live life, but I have responsibilities and well, I can't really afford to take a day off. Do you know how much I lose in a paycheck if I do so? And they take so much out for taxes, it's insane! I'll maybe see 3/4 of a paycheck, probably less.
I could gripe about the government and its exorbitant taxes all day, I need to save money and how can I do that if I barely have enough to survive paycheck to paycheck. It'll work out, it somehow always manages to do that anyway. I work two jobs, which I surprisingly like to do? Well, for one it keeps me busy and entertained. I think too much as it is, and I don't need to the extra time to do so. In my free time, like some I had today, I experimented with making bread.
It didn't go well.
So far, it hasn't risen at all. Which apparently yeasty bread is supposed to do. How can I be a good cook if I can't even make bread? Ugh, so frustrating. It tasted fine. But the consistency is all wrong. Maybe the water cooled too quickly when it was soaking in the yeast? Right now the dough is flat and doesn't look right.
Il pan e male.
The bread is bad. Well if I actually made it to the baking part it would be. Maybe baking bread isn't my thing? It's possible. But I'm not giving up. I'll keep you all updated. I have two more yeast packets left, and several other recipes. It shall not escape me, this elusive trick.
Yup, I have a hard problem 'resting'. I just can't stop until someone steps in and forces me to sit and relax. It's not a healthy way to live life, but I have responsibilities and well, I can't really afford to take a day off. Do you know how much I lose in a paycheck if I do so? And they take so much out for taxes, it's insane! I'll maybe see 3/4 of a paycheck, probably less.
I could gripe about the government and its exorbitant taxes all day, I need to save money and how can I do that if I barely have enough to survive paycheck to paycheck. It'll work out, it somehow always manages to do that anyway. I work two jobs, which I surprisingly like to do? Well, for one it keeps me busy and entertained. I think too much as it is, and I don't need to the extra time to do so. In my free time, like some I had today, I experimented with making bread.
It didn't go well.
So far, it hasn't risen at all. Which apparently yeasty bread is supposed to do. How can I be a good cook if I can't even make bread? Ugh, so frustrating. It tasted fine. But the consistency is all wrong. Maybe the water cooled too quickly when it was soaking in the yeast? Right now the dough is flat and doesn't look right.
Il pan e male.
The bread is bad. Well if I actually made it to the baking part it would be. Maybe baking bread isn't my thing? It's possible. But I'm not giving up. I'll keep you all updated. I have two more yeast packets left, and several other recipes. It shall not escape me, this elusive trick.
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