i live in the woods in western pennsylvania where wiki now describes our temperature as "marine west coast environment". what????????? baked some brioche buns this morning that were so damp.
I live in central NY where May was so dry I actually had to water HOSTA. Then June arrived, and along with it the rain. Now it's so wet we can't mow, the daylilies have aphids, and mushrooms are sprouting under the hosta. I just returned from nine days at the the family cottage on the coast of Maine and after five days of rain/fog/mist/cold threw in the towel and came home early. I did make 2 loaves of sourdough last week and they seem unaffected by the weather, but the A/C is on, so there's that.
I live in the Pacific Northwest (for real!!) and it's really really dry. Alexa just told me humidity level is 32. My bread of the day was a 20% whole grain mockmilled Triticale & white wheat with Sunflower seeds and the rest Cairnspringsmills Expresso Bread flour. Fluid was half beer, half whey and it was awesome! I like warm weather, but hiking in the woods in June and sweating is a new concept. I never thought I'd say this, but I do miss the rain. We're getting ready for the first forest fires now, and then less access to hikes because of the smoky air. I have a treadmill, but it's just not the same. Oh, and I LOVE Lukas Volker's new book. I made the earlier version of his carrot & bean burger last week, and it was yummy. I usually don't follow recipes to a T, so mine didn't have canned white beans but beer-soaked soybeans in it. :) And I crumbled the left-overs (#nextovers) over my dark green salad. Intuitive cooking is my middle name. I do that with my baking, too -- as long as the percentages are the same, it all works out.
Please give us back our rain. The 4th is typically wettest day of July in Seattle with the most rainy days in the last 80 years. But not this year! It's going to be in the mid 80's.
i live in the woods in western pennsylvania where wiki now describes our temperature as "marine west coast environment". what????????? baked some brioche buns this morning that were so damp.
I live in central NY where May was so dry I actually had to water HOSTA. Then June arrived, and along with it the rain. Now it's so wet we can't mow, the daylilies have aphids, and mushrooms are sprouting under the hosta. I just returned from nine days at the the family cottage on the coast of Maine and after five days of rain/fog/mist/cold threw in the towel and came home early. I did make 2 loaves of sourdough last week and they seem unaffected by the weather, but the A/C is on, so there's that.
I live in the Pacific Northwest (for real!!) and it's really really dry. Alexa just told me humidity level is 32. My bread of the day was a 20% whole grain mockmilled Triticale & white wheat with Sunflower seeds and the rest Cairnspringsmills Expresso Bread flour. Fluid was half beer, half whey and it was awesome! I like warm weather, but hiking in the woods in June and sweating is a new concept. I never thought I'd say this, but I do miss the rain. We're getting ready for the first forest fires now, and then less access to hikes because of the smoky air. I have a treadmill, but it's just not the same. Oh, and I LOVE Lukas Volker's new book. I made the earlier version of his carrot & bean burger last week, and it was yummy. I usually don't follow recipes to a T, so mine didn't have canned white beans but beer-soaked soybeans in it. :) And I crumbled the left-overs (#nextovers) over my dark green salad. Intuitive cooking is my middle name. I do that with my baking, too -- as long as the percentages are the same, it all works out.
Please give us back our rain. The 4th is typically wettest day of July in Seattle with the most rainy days in the last 80 years. But not this year! It's going to be in the mid 80's.
You can have it!