Hazelnut Poppy Seed Bread - Trial 1

There were some issues with the bread but I am well on my way to making a pretty decent hazelnut poppy seed bread (which I remember from my Walla Walla days and then was reminded of when I went to visit relatives in Spokane). Problems: a bit too fluffy, needs a bit longer bake time, a few too many seeds and nuts. Good Things: fluffy, has the right flavor, looks good, tastes good.

Current recipe

3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup water
1 1/2 teas. salt
1 tbs yeast
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup oil
6 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup oats
2 tbs ground flax
2 tbs poppy seed
2 tbs sesame seed
1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts
1 tbs sunflower seed
2 tbs chopped cashews

do whatever you normally do with bread dough... then mix in all the seeds and nuts at the very end.
bake at 400 °F for 20 minutes, take out of the oven and brush on egg white and sprinkle some additional poppy and sesame seeds, bake an additional 5 minutes.

• note you should bake longer, maybe 5 minutes by my guess and decrease the overall seed and nut count just a bit. makes a giant loaf so may need to overall decrease things too.

Week 10 Bake

After being gifted three beautiful summer squash (one green and two yellow), I decided to make the following and served it with rice. Great reviews from the whole clan.

Ingredients

vegetables
1.5 cups Brussels sprouts
3 small summer squash (a mix of yellow and green is nice)
2 small to medium tomatoes
topping
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
1/2 cup Italian bread crumbs
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper




Wash the Brussels sprouts and trim off the end. Chop into bite size pieces (quarters for medium sized sprouts). Steam for 6 minutes, do not overcook. Place into a large glass pan.

Wash the summer squash and trim off the ends. Chop into bite size pieces on the larger size. Steam for 4 minutes or so, you do not want them to become limp they should retain some moderate crunch. Place on top of the Brussels sprouts in the pan.

Chop the tomato into bite size pieces on the larger size. Place on top of the summer squash in the pan.

Mix the topping together and then sprinkle on the top

Place in the oven with the broiler on high for about 3 minutes, until browned on the top.

Serve warm with rice or as a side dish to whatever... 

Libraries are Wonderful Things

keith's flight was delayed to lax.... i had already left the house in case their was traffic (as happens in LA) so i kept going to the airport.  i stopped at a grocery store for an apple and a cinnamon roll.  then the flight was delayed again.  so i put barnes and noble into the gps and headed off the 2.5 miles.  no barnes and noble.  then i thought to myself i don't really want a barnes and noble, i want a library.  there was one less than a mile from the failed barnes and noble and i found books, glorious books, and internet. to access the internet i had to get a library card.  i'm thinking i should start collecting library cards.  i should have kept my nevada ones....  interestingly it was easier to get a library card in a county where i am not a resident than it was for me to get a library card at the library 1/3 a mile from my house & po box. 

Awesome Information from Sarah the Guru of All Internet Utility

sarah just showed me how to get rid of the find bar in firefox when done with it (initiate with ctrl F and close with ESC). if you want it to go away by itself after a little bit of time just use forward slash (the button to the right of the period).
this made my day. i've been wanting to know this for a while now (just didn't really know what to search on or even if it existed). yup i'm that nerdy.

An Interesting Color Test

from some weird link that sarah posted in some feed thingy i don't feel like taking the effort to re-find. here's a color test thingy that seems simple but is actually surprisingly difficult. i got a score of 7.... perfection is a score of 0.

An Interesting Article by Desmond Ford

rather than do some useful work this afternoon i have been reading various interesting things like the sections on sustainability in C&EN from Aug 18 and reading some on Desmond Ford since we are going to hear him speak at the Loma Linda campus hill church this sabbath.  here's a link to an article by Desmond Ford and here's a quote that i found poinent.

A vast array of modern sciences blatantly contradicts the literalistic reading of the opening chapters of Genesis. In addition to this fact the church must recognise that its efforts to evangelise the world are largely unsuccessful among educated people because there is this same issue of the great gap between science and Genesis when the latter is interpreted literally. Thus the Christian church today makes progress in the third world but is retreating in the industrialised countries of the globe.

Vista - another crappy view

vista has some internet commercials called the mojave experiment where people are told vista is mojave and then they love it. clearly not actual users given time to realize how it has created new problems. myself, yesterday found a new realm of crappiness when i tried to delete a dll that was part of a program I, wanted to delete. it pretended to be all Unix-y and didn't allow me to have file permissions to delete it. i found some command line instructions for giving myself ownership & permissions for the file. still no delete. had to boot to safe mode to delete a dll. you go mojave. granted some stuff is nice like the integration of good handwriting recognition for the tablet... but if you don't have a tablet stick with XP .