Awesome! I've been trying to make einkorn sourdough bread for my wife due to her wheat sensitivity. It's been quite a year long challenge to get it right.
On Monday, January 20, 2020 at 6:43:23 PM UTC-5, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > This is a bike story that starts out as a school lunch story. > > School lunch is always a crapshoot - we all remember the days, don’t we? > The rise and fall of my elementary school happiness could be determined by > the menu in the school cafeteria. Would it be the celebrated chicken patty > on a bun? Or would we suffer through the dreaded sauerkraut and sausage? > Yes, school lunch is a crapshoot alright, and all the more so if you come > from a religious background that necessitates a vegetarian tray. > > My son, whom we’ll call #TheClemRider, sits next to one such kid, who > we’ll call E. Inevitably, the evil trolls of the school lunch program will > serve E something decidedly non-veg - like a hamburger. E will dump his > tray and look longingly into #TheClemRider’s lunchbox of fresh and homemade > things and beg a morsel or two. #TheClemRider, who has a golden heart, will > always share. And sometimes, we pack extra for E. And this is the pattern > we have had for their entire 8th grade year. > > The thing that E wants most out of my son’s lunchbox is his sourdough > bread. I’ve been baking sourdough for years, and I use it to make the boys’ > sandwiches. So much does E love this bread that he asked for the recipe. If > you know about sourdough, you know you’ve got to have and keep a starter. > So, I finagled a way to send the recipe and the starter with #TheClemRider. > The first day, E threw the starter in the trash. He would need to clear > this with his mother, he said, so she wouldn’t “think it was crack.” On our > second attempt, the starter made it home with E where he attended to it and > promptly killed it. He came back to my son asking for a 3rd dose of > starter. > > I said no more. New deal: E comes to our house and I will give him a > one-on-one lesson in my kitchen and THEN send him home with his 3rd > attempt. Surprisingly, E agreed. > > E told #TheClemRider that he is not the only one who bikes - he considers > himself *quite* accomplished and rides his bike all over his neighborhood. > Killer Hill would not be a big deal for him. It’s a school holiday, and E > got permission to ride his bike to our house and get his sourdough lesson. > > But what stands between E and his sourdough lesson is a monster we call > Killer Hill. Killer Hill is a mile long punisher with several hundred feet > of elevation gain. The roadies use it as a challenging workout. The rest of > the population avoids it. We use it to get to and from school. We know the > burning of lungs and straining of legs required to conquer Killer Hill. I > am not optimistic. > > #TheClemRider worries. He knows the trials of that hill and has rarely > seen any other kid ride it. He told E he would bike down to E’s > neighborhood and ride up Killer Hill with him. I wonder what type of bike E > will be using, and if he can carry anything. I tell #TheClemRider to look > out for E at the crossings for the side neighborhoods. I have been told I > am not allowed to check on them - #TheClemRider was very strict about this > - but I’m tracking his iPhone and they appear to be moving very, very, VERY > slowly. > > ***Update! They have arrived! E made a fine showing with a final burst of > speed at the end, and then, heaving, asked me, “HOW do you DO that hill?!? > That was terrifying.” > > Gotta go, Friends. We’ve got sourdough to make! > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/2dfeadf5-679d-4eb1-9483-2add7ea68170%40googlegroups.com.
