A request to the blogosphere… I am organizing a large conference and part of the work we are doing as we sense into the need and purpose of the gathering is to understand the people who will be coming. The conference is a gathering for a large national movement, and although we know many of the people who will be there, the purpose of the gathering may be different this year, necessitating different participants. We have a core team designing the gathering and we’d like to use an effective, relatively quick low tech method to map out and overview of …
As I promised yesterday, here is my recipe for fougasse. Actually this comes from Richard Bertinet’s excellent book Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads. It’s easy and quick and very satisfying. First the ingredients: 1.5 teaspoons of active dry yeast (or one .25 oz envelope) 18 oz of all purpose white or white bread flour. 2 teaspoons of salt 12.5 oz of water. It’s important to measure the ingredients by weight to get the proportions correct. If you don’t have a kitchen scale then use 2.5 cups of flour, but don’t pack the measuring cup full, just scoop it out of the …
Yay. It is the world day of bread. What a great idea to celebrate the human ingenuity behind combining flour, salt, yeast and water. These four basic ingredients are responsible for more comfort in the world that almost anything else. When I return home from a day of working in Vancouver, I will post a recipe for my standbay easy bread: fougasse. In the meantime, enjoy the offerings at my favourite bread site The Fresh Loaf (including this excellent Daily Bread recipe, and perhaps even try a batch of no knead bread. If you start it tonight, you …
Overheard… FLIGHT ATTENDANT Something to drink? PASSENGER Tea please. FLIGHT ATTENDANT Sorry, we’re out of tea. PASSENGER Damn these hard economic times. ——- PASSENGER ONE Hi there! Where have you been? PASSENGER TWO Travelling around the United States by train. I made it as far as Arkansas! PASSENGER ONE Really? PASSENGER TWO Yeah…I did the Arkansas trifecta: the Bill Clinton library, Wal-Mart headquarters and…and…what was the other one…? (scratching head) PASSENGER ONE Texas? —– CHECK IN CLERK Are you staying for two nights with us? GUEST No just one. CHECK IN CLERK Would you like a casino pass? GUEST …
If this past week’s events in the financial world took you by surprise, consider yourself very ill informed indeed. Everyone knew this was going to happen, even comedians. Back in January, this video was posted on YouTube: Crazy.