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This Week in Wine
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This week I have mostly been drinking wine from Puglia, Italy.
Varietals: Susumaniello; Negroamaro; Primitivo; Fiano
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Anyone ever bought starter dough off someone locally?
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I found someone selling their starter dough on craigslist but I'm a little hesitant because who knows if it's any good and I won't have any protection since they want cash. I was considering using a site like this one to look up the persons information but not even sure if it's worthwhile.
Has anyone has success buying starter dough off someone locally, or should I just take the plunge and make my own (I'm a bit lazy and don't want to go through a zillion trials)?
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Japan beat Germany and France
One of my other hobbies
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My adult daughter is visiting from out of state tonight, so I'm currently baking a batch of foccacia. However, tomorrow or the next day I have to work on one of my other hobbies and smoke a batch of bacon that has been curing for about ten days at this point.
Past batches...
Spiced coffee bacon and cayenne bacon headed for the smoker
Spiced coffee bacon, post-smoke
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Humor: Cat Loaf.
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"Cat Loaf": A sitting position sometimes common to most all cats, where they tuck all four paws under their body, making them resemble a loaf of bread. See:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cat+loaf&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images
Also see: https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/19452/my-model-great-oven-spring
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Biblical bread, Passover, feeding 5000, Last Supper.
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This being the season of religiously connected bread (hot cross buns, Colomba/Pascua bread)...
Interesting video on 6,000 years of bread history by Eric Pallant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqjBxQhe8o
40+ minutes long. Goes back to Egyptians, Romans, etc.
At time mark 17:55, it goes into bread in the Bible, with interesting parallels that I hadn't thought of before.
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Dumb Website Questions
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I have been lurking for a while, and I joined a few days ago. I have not yet figured out the best way to do things here, like sharing recipes. Please pardon these dumb website questions:
1. Am I correct that only image file attachments are allowed?
There seems to be no way to upload .pdf, .xls (.xlsx), .doc (.docx), and other non-image file formats. Are all posts, blog entries, etc. only plain text with the formatting done in the browser (along with image files)? No document attachments allowed?
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My two mixers, no frills, very cheap.
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I found this photo on the internet. So they aren't the exact specific ones, but same models.
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Hat tip to SueVT for the inspiration: https://www.thefreshloaf.com/comment/503625#comment-503625
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10 captchas - Twice to log in ?
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I'm been a member here for years and I've never had any problem logging in. This time I had to solve 10 captchas twice, yes 20 of those damn things.
What's up with that ?
Is the site suddenly having spam problems or something ?
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