Friday, March 26, 2010

{This moment}


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Originally uploaded by breiduiveltje
{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

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We're enjoying every minute of what will probably Teddy's last year. He's fifteen now, and getting weaker. We love him to bits.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Morning ritual

It's no secret, I'm not a morning person. I need coffee and at least two hours of peace and quiet in the house to get into gears.

So there is no way I can organize bread- making this early. What I CAN do, is this:

Every sunday (or so, when needed), I make a big bowl of artisan dough.

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13 cups of flour
3 tablespoons of dry yeast
2 tablespoons salt
6 cups of lukewarm water

When I start my waking - up - process, I take the bowl out of the fridge, and fetch my flour pot.

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then I use the handiest thing I bought in years - the silicon dough cutter - to take out approx 400 gr dough.

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fold it under a few times, it's cold at this time.
Drop it into the breadmaker. Set to baking cycle (it stay's there most of the time), which takes an hour. Set timer to 1.40 hours or 1.50 hours, even 1.20 hours if I'm in a hurry.

It will rise in 20, 40 and/or 50 minutes and then the baking starts.

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By the time I can see out of my eyes, the breadmaker beeps, and the bread for tomorrow's brown paper bag is finished!

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I use different combinations of flour, my favorites now are:
8 cups whole grain wheat, 5 cups white wheat
3 cups rye flour, 5 cups whole grain, 5 cups white wheat
5 cups whole grain flour mix, 8 cups white wheat.

I even dropped sunflower seeds or so additionally into the dough. It's always delicious! try it, it's easy!

Monday, March 22, 2010

The perfect way to start my day.

A fresh egg from our ladies, softly boiled:

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and nutbread, homemade. And sun, don't forget the sun on the table!

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Another day's work

It's beginning to take shape for this years endeavour.

Bed 8 and 9 are defined:

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bed 1 to 6 are cleared from cuttings,

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and this is what's came off from our "little" fruit- garden:

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tomorrow the wood- chips. I hope the weather stays that nice.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

National compost Day

The national compost day is initiated to give back to the citizens which all seperate their garbage from compostable materials.
On this day, you can go to several composting plants in your area to get free compost for your garden. So I did.

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lots of fellow gardeners, shoveling compost in the rain

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later on, when the busiest time was over, I went for a second "helping". These guys worked there and even helped us this time around.

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This was the hardest part - getting it to the allotment. Second round still in the car, and it stopped raining for a bit, so I'm off to do that now.

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Clearing out to confirm to rules

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Saturday, March 13, 2010

The garden in march

A round through the garden before the season starts.


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Saturday, March 6, 2010

13 medals

The WIP's finished during Ravelympic's 2010



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Sock's
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One WIP - finished (off) in an entirely different way ;-)

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My favourite event, which started the medal - madness at this house in the first place:

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