Bread!

[evilhippo]

The bread project is now a continuing success! I have created bread that looks, smells, and tastes like bread, and I believe that I will be able to duplicate my results. The next step will be figuring out how to make a chewier crust. It's good for a fifth try, but for french bread, it's still a long way off. Someday, I hope to get as good at this as I am with pancakes and mashed potatoes. By the time I hit retirement age, I should be good and ready to cook for other people. (I also managed to cook fish correctly today, though I don't think I can duplicate those results yet. Fish and I have a rocky relationship sometimes.)

Comments

[linen.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that bread looks really good. The best thing I can do right now is.... well, I made some awesome tacos this weekend. They were tasty.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Oh great, now you've made me hungry for tacos. Darn you!

[sketchyheart.livejournal.com]

You know what you need?

Solar hands.

Mmmm bread <3

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Yesssss.

(I love how one of the first search results in google is "How can we get solar hands?" (-:)

[flutingfrenzy.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that looks delicious.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

They're a little prettier than they taste, but someday... someday... (-;

[madonnalal.livejournal.com]

That looks delicious! Very well done :D

My sister had a really nice recipe for making dinner rolls. They always turned out perfect for her. I can ask her for it, if you like. Or you can have fun with cooking adventures on your own, if you are enjoying the challenge.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely! I always like trying out new recipes (someday, I'll even get into the second and third search results in google for things when I want to make them. (-;)

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Dude, you rock!
The chewy crust trick is easy. You need a spray bottle full of water, and you open the oven every couple of minutes and spritz the daylights out of the bread while it's baking. I've gone so far as to dump a whole bunch of water right into the baking pan. The steam creates the chewy. A also douse the rolls before they even go in.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! Thank you. I never would've thought of that. Now I have an excuse to try this yet again. (-:

I think my next bread-related experiment is going to be bagels. It looks like the dough is barely different... there's just a boiling step. And that looks like fun.

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

Sure! It's taken me some tries, but I think I'm getting it and the water really does work.

I have never made bagels. Tell me how it works out! I totally want to try now, too. I keep meaning to and never do.

OH! Also. Watch this. Right now.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4237361689/

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

My neighbors must think I'm so strange. I'm always sitting in here laughing when no one else is around. But oh man... I remember reading about them working on that movie and being very angry at someone who implied in their part of the interview that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle didn't have the technology to write action scenes into his books. And it looks just as ridiculous as the interview made me imagine. I'm definitely going to have to go see it. I hope I can manage not to giggle and laugh too much at it... If the trailer is any indication, maybe I should wait until it's at the second-run theatre.

[look-alive.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I'm really excited. It just looks so ridiculous and kind of badass, I'm just... yeah. Excited. And it's RDJ being a whole new brand of ridiculous. So there's that. XD