Sharon's blog: Another day

So I'm not the most domestic creature that ever graced a kitchen, but when my Granny Ninna's cooking gene kicks in, I love to bake. I've been thinking about baking for awhile now, ever since my long time best friend made homemade waffles for me. I even thought so long and hard about it that I baked myself biscuits last night. And when I saw some starter for sourdough bread a few weeks ago, I grabbed it. It was one of those envelopes that held something somewhat dry and I'd never used it, but the other day I followed directions and started the starter. Sat it somewhere back in my fridge after the first day. I kept up with it, didn't forget it as I usually do.

Today was one of those ho hum, cloudy, dreary, all caught up, what am I going to do next, headachy days. My thought was to clean the fridge but it's fairly bare anyway, not much to clean. I caught a glimpse of the covered bowl back in the corner. The starter. 

I'd really rather be baking applesauce oatmeal walnut muffins, but the squirrels got into the walnuts I was drying and very few are left. I like a lot of walnuts in my applesauce oatmeal walnut muffins, so I'll save that for another day

An apple stack cake crossed my mind but I have not a drop of apple butter and what's a stack cake without apple butter? One more saved for another day.

Or a blackberry jam cake. It's been awhile since I had the one in Iowa, middle of May, I remember. But I have no blackberry jam, another cake for another day.

Bread pudding, I'm the best at bread pudding, it's one of those making do things to bake, when you have no ingredients except leftover bread and raisins. But I had no leftover bread. Probably no raisins either. Another day.

Oh but!! If I make sourdough bread and have it leftover, I can make bread pudding, if I have some raisins. So sourdough bread it would be.

Did I tell you my cupboards stay bare? But I have a couple kinds of flour, some yeast, I don't need much else with the starter.

I made a loaf of sourdough bread! Heh! It's gorgeous and it tastes like heaven. A little butter, a spoonful of honey straight from a local beekeeper, and I will be eating like a diva tonight. Actually I already did eat, just a slice, just enough to make sure it was done to perfection.

That was 2 hours ago. There's 7/8+ of a loaf of bread left. Ugh. I hardly ever eat bread.

But I'm thinking, tomorrow French toast, and maybe on Friday I'll just turn it all into bread pudding. I already have cinnamon. And nutmeg. A little brown sugar.

But the raisins are all dried up. Whoever heard of bread pudding without the bourbon raisin sauce?

But then I have no bourbon either.

Another day.

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