| Ways not to save money. |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|09:58 pm] |
I bake. A lot. Since I've been trying to save a little money lately, the last time u bought flour, I purchased a store brand of all-purpose flour. Noelw, this flour has been fine for making sauces, banana bread, and pancakes. Since I hadn't made a pizza in a while, I thought tonight would be a good time to do so, since we'd just gotten a new giant bag of mozzerella. So I did, exactly as I've done for years.
For those tuning in for the first time, I'm generally sort of an ingredient snob. I figure that if you want your finished product to be high quality, you stand a much better chance using the best ingredients that you can get. For white flour, unless you're making cakes, this generally means unbleached, unenriched hard red winter wheat flour. And I'm a big fan if bob's red mill flour. This time, though, I was trying to save a buck, and purchased whatever was generic all purpose flour at m street. So I make my normal recipe:
1 3/4 or so of flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp yeast
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup hot water, that you must never use all of
Now I'm really anal about how mix this. The order is flour, whisk, yeast, whisk, sugar, whisk, salt, baking powder, whisk, drizzle in oil while whisking vigorously, and thencontinue whisking until you have something that looks like it would be a good biscuit dough. At this point, you add your water untilnit acts right, then turn it out and knead it until no longer sticky. At this point, I start thinking, "there's something not right with this dough". I put it off, however, to natural variability.
Anyway, the pizza comes outabd the dough had browned unnaturally quickly. I didn't think much of it, again, until I ate it. Holy plastic pizza batman! Completely flavorless crust, managing to simultaneoulsy be tough and without texture. I make a lot of pizza, and I've done a lot of strange things, and some of them don't work out well, but this was hands down the worst pizza that I've ever made, including the first ones where I rolled the crust so thin that it didn't rise and the no-flour bran crust pizza. Awful. I'm going to throw this flour away, now, andbever buy anything like it again. Bob, you're my man forever. |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2009|12:05 pm] |
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This is just wrong. It's 87f in Seattle, and 82f in atlanta. I didn't come here for the heat! |
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[Jun. 2nd, 2009|09:32 am] |
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One couch. 11 flights of stairs. Go. |
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[May. 7th, 2009|12:16 am] |
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Ok. So tulas in Seattle has a live 20 piece jazz orchestra on tuesday and wedesdays. |
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[Feb. 2nd, 2009|01:37 am] |
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That's right, it's superbowl sunday! That's why everyone's crazy. NFL, I blame you. |
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[Feb. 2nd, 2009|01:17 am] |
So here's the full bus story, what I've seen and heard.
To begin, a guy in the back of the bus began verbally accosting a woman, I think offering to sell her crack. She basically told him that she didn't want any crack - at the top of her lungs. This went on, and he got off at the next stop.
It's not over, though, because not ablock later, a man and a woman get into a fight in the front of the bus. Evidently, she hit him, and the he started whaling on her. She then ran to the front of the bus, and he chased her, hitting her again. She grabbed the driver and pulled him out of his seat and about this time we hit a car. The bus driver got out with the two pugilists, and we sat there until the cops showed up with another 174. It didn't look like the car was badly damaged, and now we're headed home again. |
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[Dec. 19th, 2008|10:40 pm] |
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The Saint, at olive and bellvue, rocks my socks off. |
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[Aug. 21st, 2008|06:08 pm] |
Ok, been out again, getting ready for bman. Built bike, some costumes, needing new boots badly still. Only a few things left to do before we leave, and then we're gone tomorrow, off to playaland.
The state of washington can suck my cock, btw, for the insanity of their drivers licensing program.
Wedding invitations arriving soon. Need to order envelopes.
The apartment looks bombed. Maybe that will confuse burglars.
The background of this tool is nice, but they need to make it move with the text... Having lines that don't move is distracting- it looks like my text is in jail.
Back to work. |
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