The weather was once again wet and gray, as it is expected to remain until at least the weekend.
I spent much of the morning kneading bread and waiting for it to ferment- sourdough takes much longer to ferment than yeasted bread does to rise and rather than a two-hour process from kneading to baking one can expect anywhere between four and ten hours.
In the afternoon Elisabeth was with me in the kitchen. We were treated to her boyfriend’s Hip-Hop+ Playlist (something like 100 hip-hop songs and 3 non-hip-hop songs), which was developed over several years and is of the highest quality.
Soon after we started on dinner Damon arrived with groceries and mail from Grand Manan.
Janet had mounted a campaign to keep the produce from freezing in the refrigerator, so she put it all in the baskets in the top of the unit to keep it away from the freezy bottom.
While things were being put away, I was making a salad with lettuce I had harvested from the garden and various other things that had just arrived with the groceries.
Elisabeth was boiling black beans on the stove (they had been dried and needed some serious boiling even to reach the consistency of canned beans).
We also cooked beef and chickpeas, corn, and rice.
We had the especially exciting addition of hard taco shells to our usual repertoire of multi-varietal tortillas.
We had an exciting variety of sides as well: salsa, sour cream, and black olives.
For dessert, Elisabeth experimented with a new moosewood recipe for chocolate pudding cake, which was a great success.
After dinner there was the usual noisy and enthusiastic card playing as well as a contingent of quiet crosswording.
Having finished my friendship bracelet I started another one, experimenting with new patterns.
We had music from DJ Colin for the entirety of the evening, starting with 80s music and moving on to remixes and mashups.
Elisabeth and I spent some time decorating the dorm by taking interesting clippings from and old issue of National Geographic and hanging them in various places.
I started knitting yet another hat, and Emily and I made green smoothies with spinach, apples, and bananas, much to Colin’s disgust.
I spent much of the morning kneading bread and waiting for it to ferment- sourdough takes much longer to ferment than yeasted bread does to rise and rather than a two-hour process from kneading to baking one can expect anywhere between four and ten hours.
In the afternoon Elisabeth was with me in the kitchen. We were treated to her boyfriend’s Hip-Hop+ Playlist (something like 100 hip-hop songs and 3 non-hip-hop songs), which was developed over several years and is of the highest quality.
Soon after we started on dinner Damon arrived with groceries and mail from Grand Manan.
Janet had mounted a campaign to keep the produce from freezing in the refrigerator, so she put it all in the baskets in the top of the unit to keep it away from the freezy bottom.
While things were being put away, I was making a salad with lettuce I had harvested from the garden and various other things that had just arrived with the groceries.
Elisabeth was boiling black beans on the stove (they had been dried and needed some serious boiling even to reach the consistency of canned beans).
We also cooked beef and chickpeas, corn, and rice.
We had the especially exciting addition of hard taco shells to our usual repertoire of multi-varietal tortillas.
We had an exciting variety of sides as well: salsa, sour cream, and black olives.
For dessert, Elisabeth experimented with a new moosewood recipe for chocolate pudding cake, which was a great success.
After dinner there was the usual noisy and enthusiastic card playing as well as a contingent of quiet crosswording.
Having finished my friendship bracelet I started another one, experimenting with new patterns.
We had music from DJ Colin for the entirety of the evening, starting with 80s music and moving on to remixes and mashups.
Elisabeth and I spent some time decorating the dorm by taking interesting clippings from and old issue of National Geographic and hanging them in various places.
I started knitting yet another hat, and Emily and I made green smoothies with spinach, apples, and bananas, much to Colin’s disgust.
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