Busy busy

[unicornduke]

Work is slow, so I'm doing some personal stuff right now. It's slow because it's Still Raining. Ew

I'm going to PA for the next two weekends, this weekend to help with strawberry planting and to build my truck bed platform (and ice skating maybe), and memorial day weekend to plant All The Things. My summer crops are all going in that weekend. 

So that means I need to do things during the week, which I'm not spectacularly great at. 

Here's a small to-do list

•  today
  
  • get groceries
  • bake cornmuffins - two kinds - cornmeal molasses crumb and double corn and cheese
• tomorrow
  • get ground meat out of freezer
  • bake? 
• Thursday
  
  • make food for weekend - kheema, white rice, moong dal (?)
• Friday
  • pack and head to PA

One of the things I really want to try and get going again is my sourdough starter. I need to be consistent with it and I actually had it alive for a while, but never ended up baking with it. There are sourdough pizza recipes that I think will work better gluten free than the yeast. But the consistency of it with travelling to PA so much is hard. I also just don't have the timing down, where you feed it at night, split it and prep dough in the morning and bake in the evening. But I will get there! Maybe I need to store it in the fridge over the weekend, pull it sunday night, feed it and it'll be ready to split in the morning. idek. gotta think about that. 

anyway. stuff, things. 

Comments

[graydon]

Back when, I always kept the sourdough starter in the fridge, pretty much all the time. (other than when starting a new one for a day or so.) Slows it down enough to bake once a week.

[unicornduke]

Yeah, I figure I can leave it in the fridge but it needs to come out and get fed a couple of times before baking so I sat down and figured out a little bit of a schedule. Now I just need a solid week at home to get it established because I'm not hauling it to PA with me lmao

[graydon]

Old-school Old West cooks were reputed to sleep with their sourdough starters (presumptively in a nicely wrapped gallon mason jar) to keep it from freezing on cold nights out during cattle drives.

In general though, yeah. Getting sourdough out of the air vents in your truck is the sort of thing you don't need to be doing.

[unicornduke]

especially given the state of one of the highways I travel. They don't fix it much, just put up more "rough road" signs. I usually hang in the left lane because it's less bumpy. They did fill in the holes made from the winter but I don't think it made it any less bumpy.

introducing a mostly liquid that's fermenting seems like a very bad idea.

[graydon]

introducing a mostly liquid that's fermenting seems like a very bad idea.

Not into impromptu sacrifices to the God of Beer, I take it? :)

[unicornduke]

lmao definitely not. that's more my dad's speed