Looking about me there are, as always, illimitable amounts of things to do. I can avoid cleaning the toilet and sweeping the floors with so many other need-to-be-done tasks!
First off: the closet near the door that I ripped out last year that, after a bout of painting and building shelves, has remained untouched for too long.
Measuring tape and pencil in one hand, quickly-drawn plans in the other, I head to the garage to start....Barnboard has been moved outside to make room for what is supposed to be in the garage (vehicles) and sits in an imposing, ice- and snow-covered heap beside the frozen peony bushes. Move three boards inside; stage a "drying area" constructed of an old signboard and the heater from our bedroom. Head back to house to re-evaluate and wait for snow to disappear.
After a pleasant mug of chamomile and some appointment-making phone calls I head back to check on the icy future shelves...they are barely less frigid than when I left them though I decide that I may as well attempt sawing them now anyways. It turns out that without two sawhorses and three hands I am unable to make this safety-ed skillsaw start.
Alas, check the closet off of things to do TODAY....
The calamity of the bread making begins...with Jeanne Sauvage's "Soft Sandwich Bread, Gluten-Free" recipe staring at me from the cluttered countertop I start the process of baking THE best tasting gluten-free bread ever known to humankind.
I don't have sweet rice flour. Check internet. Almond flour should work. The yeast doesn't seem to be proofing (apparently the outer shell of the yeast needs to be shed in order to allow this process and mixing with warm milk or water and sugar, and letting it get foamy for about 15 minutes, will do the trick)...and without cluckers in our backyard spewing out fresh nuggets the eggs aren't room temperature...wait...wait...wait some more...
Without a proper loaf pan, and having been unable to "roll" the loaf into any short of rounded shape due to the strange consistency of gluten-free flour (which is STICKY in the oddest, guckiest way!), I can only hope that this miraculously "perfect" loaf of divine-ness turns out just the way I picture it in my head...
So what now? What other things can I do to avoid scrubbing that white porcelain bowl? Too chilly for gardening...
Oh! I know! Let's write a blogpost...
When our kids suffer from streptococcus, staphylococcus, E. coli and shigella bacteria, hepatitis A virus, or the common cold virus, you'll know it's because I chose writing a blog entry over shining up the ole crapper...shame on me...but you can tut-tut all you want as I devour some warm bread and disappear into dreams of closet plans...
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