Dough
I’m making French bread to go with breakfast eggs from Cleo the chicken. I’ve never worked with yeast before. It breathes, it stretches, and it smells like a sleepy lover—how could you not say good morning to such a substance? Tim makes fun of me when I wake up my dough with flour and water, and chat to it about the night it’s had, and show it the moves I learned last night watching Saturday Night Fever. But I’m in the city today, where there are no chickens to shimmy with over tinned sweetcorn. And it’s less crazy to talk to spores and birds than to screens and cars, no?
Because the internet is all about telling the world what you had for breakfast…
Saturday, December 15th 2007 at 9:58 pm
Peace and love back, D. Have a great Christmas. Don’t know which is nicer, the post or the pictures. The bread looks smashing.
Saturday, December 15th 2007 at 10:33 pm
Heheh. A nice return to posting.
Sunday, December 16th 2007 at 10:04 am
Beautiful!
Sunday, December 16th 2007 at 11:09 am
Next you’ll be taking pictures of you posing with your Christmas dinner a la Daddy…C xxx
Sunday, December 16th 2007 at 3:16 pm
Hooray, you are posting again! For a while I thought it was ‘no one here but us chickens…’ Have to link up next time you are here, or I am there.
Sunday, December 16th 2007 at 6:35 pm
Bring some next time you come over :) Have a great Christmas, see ya in they new year.
Sunday, December 16th 2007 at 8:20 pm
Genevieve, Udge, and Jill: it’s lovely to hear from you.
Clairey, at least I don’t have a Photo Rosebush yet…
Karlin, come visit! I was disappointed you didn’t make the Paddy’s Valley tour last month.
John, I’m sure I can manage an oul’ loaf next time I hit the Sunset. Give me a call if you feel like last-minute pints this week.
Wednesday, December 19th 2007 at 5:58 am
This joke works better with two eggs not four:
Two eggs get cracked open into a sizzling frying pan. The first egg says,
“Is it me or is it hot in here?”
The second egg says, “Holy Cow! A talking egg!”
Sunday, December 23rd 2007 at 10:50 pm
Dervla,
You must stop everything you are doing and the people you are doing it with. You must marry me now! I will do everything you ask me to except ‘I won’t do that’. Be with me !
Tuesday, December 25th 2007 at 12:24 pm
Nollaig shona dhuit! ;-)
Wednesday, April 16th 2008 at 11:08 am
How did you come up with Cleo?