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• Post #4259011

  I’m awake, but the complicated dream I was having has left me tired.

• Post #4259010

  This morning I declared myself Employee of the Week, made a sign, and posted it on my door. In honor of this auspicious event, I took the last three hours of my work day off and went shopping. Honestly, I was humbled to just be nominated for the award.

• Post #4259009

  Going all-in on my Employee of the Week gag, I’m taking a celebratory cake to work tomorrow. Because who doesn’t like to celebrate Employee of the Week? AND WHO DOESN’T LIKE FREE CAKE?!?!

• Post #4259008

  ‘It’s an honor to just be nominated…’ 🤣😂🤣😂

• Post #4259007

  The frustration of dealing with an HOA just to replace an existing fence (that isn't much of a fence any longer).

• Post #4259006

  I have things to say this morning, but there aren’t enough characters in a toot to express the thoughts. Living alone and being single, there’s no one here to listen to me verbalize them, either. These thoughts will just keep swirling around in my head for now. That’s all.

• Post #4259005

  Chat, it was not a good work day. I punctuated it when I got home by dropping my favorite coffee mug on the floor (leaving it in shards, of course) as I was attempting to load it into the dishwasher. I’ve subsequently taken a Xanax, and prepared an eccentric “Thanksgiving Dinner Meatloaf.” When it comes out of the oven, I’ll eat and go to bed.

• Post #4259004

  Maybe I was just hungry, but the Thanksgiving Dinner meatloaf was surprising good.

• Post #3156272

  Rewatching the controversial GBBO meringue semi-final episode.

• Post #3156271

  Apparently I’ve volunteered myself to fabricate an Eierschecke for some (straight) Germans (that I find delightful) in my life. First, I have to locate quark. I believe I can find it at HEB’s Central Market. We need to have a proper #KaffeeUndKuchen.

• Post #3156270

  I love Stephen, but I think Stacey would have baked a better final than Stephen ultimately baked. Overall in the season, Stephen outperformed Stacey, but maybe Paul and Prue made a mistake? (Not that any of this matters to anyone any more—except maybe Stacey)

• Post #3156269

  I’ve really got anxiety coming down off this illness week. I should just go to bed. The sooner I sleep the sooner I can bake, lol.

• Post #3156268

  Well, yes, I am up starting my Tangzhong at 3 AM because I miscalculated how long it would take my levain to reach peak

• Post #3156267

  I feel moderately less crappy than yesterday morning, so I guess that’s a plus. I’m up baking only because I woke up coughing and needing to void my bladder. I realized going right back to sleep wouldn’t be easy, so I swallowed a random handful of pharmaceuticals and glugged some cough syrup, and then started this ferment. Dubbing these the Fever and Delirium Loaves.

• Post #3156266

  NGL, throwing these dough masses about takes a toll on my hands. They already hurt, and I’ve just started for the weekend. This will eventually push me back to using a machine to mix and knead my sponge.

• Post #3156265

  How cute. I’m getting spam/phishing emails from “Disney+” in Dutch (I think—maybe German?). These are two languages I’m extremely fluent in. 🙄

• Post #3156264

  Turning the leftover levain from this morning’s bake into some drop biscuits to go with my coffee.

• Post #3156263

  Quick and dirty sourdough drop biscuits.

• Post #3156262

  Sourdough discard recipes are really misleading. You aren’t using the leavening of the starter—just the leftover flour in a paste form. You may get some sourdough flavor (depending on the composition/age of the discard), but the main purpose of discard recipes is to not waste flour. In this economy, I can get behind that. But better yet, keep a small starter with only minimal discard waste.

• Post #3156261

  These aren’t fancy flaky layered Southern buttermilk biscuits but I’d feed them to stay over company (between sessions of toe curling) and they’d be happy to eat them.

• Post #3156260

  Apologies for my frequent posting and weitschweifigkeit the last couple days. It seems I’m on some sort of phase shift in the time-space continuum where all the zeros become ones, and well, here we are. 😳

• Post #3156259

  First two #sourdough loaves have been in the fridge cold proofing for several hours now (they’ll be baked off tomorrow) and I’ve started two more loaves of my favorite, croissant-style loaf. These won’t finish fermenting till near 10pm tonight due to the quantity of frozen grated butter incorporated into the dough. #MySourdoughJourney #sourdoughlife

• Post #2870473

  Two incoming international parcels, one traceable, one not, both lost in some netherworld limbo.

• Post #2870472

  You folx who have meetings on a regular basis…how do you do it? I just spent 90 minutes in a meeting where nothing was really resolved or even properly discussed. 🤯

• Post #2870471

  Sunday’s sourdough prep hot out of the oven this afternoon after the overnight cold proof. There’s a number of things in these loaves that didn’t turn out as I intended. The bread should still taste good, though. I haven’t been baking lately and I’m a little out of practice. #sourdough #sourdoughlife #tangzhong #MySourdoughJourney

• Post #2870470

  It is a joyous day here as NRC inspectors are on site. 🙄

• Post #2870469

  Chat, this has been yet another stressful work day, only in part due to the NRC being on site.

• Post #2870468

  RE: https://hoosier.social/@dleszcynski/116608538363076437 I’m doing this, too, and concur with both of these folx.

• Post #2870467

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/116638997073190558 The cigarettes, however, must be hand-rolled during their art class.

• Post #2870466

  Back to work after 5 days off. 0/10, do not recommend.