Comments on: Like a boss

By: mig

mig — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 21:29:04 +0000

The bread, by the way, was wheat sourdough, and it rose too long, and lost… surface tension (the surface actually cracked) and I guess elasticity? Which might be the same thing. So, as a result, it did not get as much oven rise and was a bit flat, tho not my flattest ever, and lacked that appealing smooth sourdough exterior. HOWEVEr spending an extra full day (2 instead of 1) in the refrigerator, plus maybe the extra rising time outside prior to baking (about 7 hours instead of 4) was extremely good for the flavor, which was extremely good.

By: karan

karan — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 20:39:13 +0000

You live a complicated life.

By: mig

mig — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 19:59:34 +0000

Who says I didn’t?

By: tuckova

tuckova — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 14:34:05 +0000

I want a scarf for Christmas, she said, as if Christmas were going to come.
This post overwhelmed me with the number of things happening in it and I don’t know how you didn’t go home and just get fetal.

By: mig

mig — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 11:55:40 +0000

Two skeins of rather fine, bright-colored, pretty variegated yarn, three smallish skeins of thicker wintery yarn (wine-red IIRC), and the shop’s last remaining gigantic skein of immensely thick whiteish yarn (takes 20-25 size needles (at least that is what they are called here in Austria, as fat as my thumbs) and allow you to knit a blanket (I had thought of it as a shawl but my wife has decided it is a blanket and needs more yarn, hence today’s yarn purchase) in a day (whereas I am about a foot into a wide scarf I have been knitting for weeks with finer yarn and normal needles).