2025 doing something new / different

I call them Big Meal & Little Meal. Little meal is about 1, Big meal about 6pm.

My something new is setting up my breadmaker!
Haven't used it for years. I bought bread flour last week and bought dried yeast about 6 months ago, when I thought of making bread again. Unfortunately, the recipe needs skimmed milk powder and that was best by June 2022!!
Worse than that - I started the machine and realised that I'd forgotten to add the yeast to the flour. I've just put it in now - but had to sprinkle it on the ball of dough!! If anything edible come out of the machine in a few hours time it will be a miracle.

The loaf is cooked and I've eaten the first slice. It didn't rise as much as it should have (I blame the cook) but its edible and won't be wasted. I've already measured out the ingredients for the next loaf including yeast!. When I used the breadmaker regularly I used to make up some bags of loafmix in readiness as making up several bags at once takes little longer than doing them individually - and you only have to wash up spoons and scales once!

Veggie anytime my bread fails we call it soup bread and it’s perfect.

Thanks Bren. I can't imagine your bread ever fails!
When I had the little house in West Wales, we started a little weekly market where locals could sell their fruit, veg, jams, flowers and crafts but there was nobody who sold bread. Guess who volunteered. I used to make a load of dough in the breadmaker, then slap it in tins and cook it in the oven. The loaves came out in all sorts of weird shapes! I advertised my loaves as "Bread with Attitude". I always sold out. Some people will buy anything if its freshly made and warm from the oven.

My something new is setting up my breadmaker!
Haven't used it for years. I bought bread flour last week and bought dried yeast about 6 months ago, when I thought of making bread again. Unfortunately, the recipe needs skimmed milk powder and that was best by June 2022!!
Worse than that - I started the machine and realised that I'd forgotten to add the yeast to the flour. I've just put it in now - but had to sprinkle it on the ball of dough!! If anything edible come out of the machine in a few hours time it will be a miracle.

The loaf is cooked and I've eaten the first slice. It didn't rise as much as it should have (I blame the cook) but its edible and won't be wasted. I've already measured out the ingredients for the next loaf including yeast!. When I used the breadmaker regularly I used to make up some bags of loafmix in readiness as making up several bags at once takes little longer than doing them individually - and you only have to wash up spoons and scales once!

Ditto, our usual loaf has wheat flakes, sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, poppy and linseeds in it, so I make up several jam jars with the salt, sugar and seed mix. Then it's just measuring out the flour, yeast and water. Mine doesn't require milk powder.

Today is the first day of my 3 weekly Luna-tick calendar. https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.php?tid=2243
So exciting I can hardly control myself or my bladder.

Today is the first day of my 3 weekly Luna-tick calendar. https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.php?tid=2243
So exciting I can hardly control myself or my bladder.

I'm still trying to figure out the system. Best of luck. Legs instead of fingers crossed.

My first was using tue log burner to cook our "dinner" today- a couple of spuds....needless to say I need to relook look at timings. One teaspoon of spud each - the skins were charcoal.

Cooked veg in my "new", second-hand, pressure cooker tonight.
I stood there, with the instruction book in my hand while it came to pressure, since its a bit different to the one I've been using for the last 20 years! Fortunately, it worked as it should and I'll be more confident next time I use it.

Cooked veg in my "new", second-hand, pressure cooker tonight.
I stood there, with the instruction book in my hand while it came to pressure, since its a bit different to the one I've been using for the last 20 years! Fortunately, it worked as it should and I'll be more confident next time I use it.

.............and everything tasted bland and full of 'sameness'?