Homemade Bread - November 17, 2025

I was especially useful in the kitchen last week.  Around Wednesday, I made a big pot of vegetable beef soup.  We had it for dinner that night and the next.  Friday, I sent some home with a daughter-in-law.  We finished it off Saturday night, with fresh bread from the almost-forgotten bread machine under the cabinet.

Yesterday, I made another batch of bread and used it to make a double batch of cinnamon rolls.  They are not all that fabulous.  They needed a different bread recipe.  I can make a biscuit that you could float to someone across a table, but I don't know much about yeast bread.  Come to think of it, biscuit dough makes a fairly decent cinnamon roll.  ;)

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I started the oil landscape late last week, got it blocked in and left it to dry.  Meanwhile, a daughter-in-law came over to use the t-shirt press, and I had to move all of the painting accoutrements off the table to make room for the machine.  "Out of sight, out of mind."  I haven't touched it since.  

Instead of oil painting, I have been having fun with watercolor.  Did a bunch of Christmas-y paintings for Christmas cards.  Yesterday, I tried to paint one that featured a miniature donkey in a stable.  Tried three times, in fact, and still didn't get it right.  Attempt #4 is drying on the kitchen table, awaiting the next details.  If I don't screw it up, this one might be a keeper.