Random Things.....

I can hardly believe it has been over a month since my last post. Recently,  I took a class by Bonnie Hunter called Virginia Bound, and am only halfway done with one block (I think the finished size is 15 inches). Over this weekend I hope to complete the first block, not sure if I will make more, and then I will post a picture. I finally was able to find a frame for a Tinkerbell counted cross stitch gift I made for one of my nieces. The background was already done in the kit, so I just worked on Tinkerbell. When I was making this years ago (it took me awhile to make and then I put this up in a "safe place" and then thought I had lost it), it was the biggest project I had ever worked on at the time. The picture was an odd size so it was really hard to find a frame, who knew?

Tomorrow I plan on making homemade pasta sauce, I did this several months ago and it was really good. Unfortunately, I thought I had saved the recipe, but now can't find it. I hope another one I have found will be just as good. I will be making some homemade parmesan reggiano and pecornio romano bread to go with it.

This week it has been warm here, so Dexter and I are just hanging out (literally in his case) in the nice AC.

What have I been up too?

I haven't been on here lately, but here are a few things that I have been busy doing:

Making quite a bit of homemade bread and mini rolls as you can see below

I have been getting back to doing some crafts;

For those Doctor Who fans, it reads Books are like Tardises, Bigger on the Inside.

I have actually gotten more done on this music cross stitch, but haven't taken another picture yet. 

I am currently reading these books:

Who Doesn't Love Homemade Bread?

In the past few weeks I have been making a few loaves of homemade bread. They are easy recipes, and no knead breads as well. Here they are a few of the photos, along with the attached websites for the recipes;

Rosemary Bread

I just used the regular bread dough recipe from here and added a little bit of olive oil and rosemary. It turned out pretty good, as you can see from the photos.

Cranberry, Orange, Almond Bread

The recipe is towards the bottom of the website. It was really good. I took it to a quilt guild meeting and it was all eaten, so it was good I was able to get a slice before it was all gone.

Oat Bread

This bread was really good, but it makes a LOT, so be forwarned.

Tomorrow I will be baking another bread.

Making some bread....

Recently, I purchased a Lodge cast iron dutch oven after finding a bread recipe on Simply So Good. I proofed it yesterday for about 24 hours, here it is rising:

After shaping it into a ball, I ended up putting olive oil and kosher salt on top of mine, even though the recipe didn't call for this.

Here was the end result, it tasted pretty good. I think next time I will add the olive oil and more kosher salt after the bread has been baked. Might also add some italian herbs perhaps.