The Good...
I baked this oatmeal batter bread on Saturday. It's a tasty loaf but I've decided I don't really like batter breads. They are too soft and tend to assume strange shapes while baking. I'll make this recipe again but will add a few more cups of flour so it becomes a soft kneadable dough. With a short knead time not too much gluten will develop so it should still be fairly soft.
We'll see, grasshopper, we'll see.......
The Ugly......
is providing the impetus to finish the tiles for the wood stove surround. We went ahead and put the stove in with just the wonderboard up. Necessary as it is getting too cold to have the electric heat coming on to keep us minimally warm.
Wonderboard (cement board) is just about as ugly as it comes. It's so awful that I am not going to photograph it until we are ready to put up the tiles, so I have a Before and After record. This part will happen next spring and summer.
Of course the temps are going to be in the fifties with lots of rain for the next few days, but last night it was nice to be warm and not have to dress in many layers to stay warm.....uhhhhh......I'm being a little dramatic here! The cats are quite simply ecstatic and are basking away like sloths.
On a more somber note, I have made no comments on the horror of Newtown, CT. I'm very simply unable to achieve any sort of understanding of such an act......but this is beyond understanding.
As always, thanks for stopping by......*s*