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Starting My Blog.

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Nomadcruiser53

Starting My Blog.

         Hi. Here is a short introduction. I'm one of the newer Dave's on TFL. I'm 56, Canadian  and getting ready to retire. I spent my early years in open pit mining and oil field construction work. I spent a couple cold and interesting years in mine construction in the high Arctic. The last 16 years have been spent operating in the pulping and steam side of newsprint production. Now we're waiting for our house to sell in a slowing Alberta economy so we can move to our second home on Vancouver Island. My baking for now only happens on days off work so it's sporatic at best. Once retired, I'm hoping to settle into home renovations, time in the kitchen and recreational fishing. It's now time to start a blog so I can keep my bread and baking attempts in some sort of order. The bread machine used to be my home baking tool of choice, but since finding TFL I am discovering the joy of handmade loaves. I tend to have more failures than successes, but when the successes come I sure injoy them. Even the failures seem to get eaten at my house. Between my wife, 24 year old son and company, food doesn't last too long around here. I also have a 29 year old married daughter and 4 year old granddaughter living Regina so they don't get to enjoy the fruits of our kitchen as often, but we see them when we can.

         Today was a lazy day, but I did manage SD waffles and sticky buns. Both recipes came from the KA site.

These are a couple of left over waffles and they sat for awhile before I took a pic. Great with butter, syrup and a side of good old Canadian back bacon.

The sticky buns are wonderful and soft. I do think I pulled them out of the oven 10 mins early though. They were smelling more than done, but I was wrong. Next time I will wait.

Dave.

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SylviaH's picture
SylviaH

Dave, Oh my!  I should have had breakfast...your baking looks mouthwatering!  Nice introduction too! 

 

Sylvia

AW's picture
AW

To the group. I wish I were in your shoes, ready to retire. Good luck on selling your home. Perhaps you've already heard this, but realtors say that if you bake before the showing (something like apple pie or that with warming spices in it) and put a polished copper pot on your stove people will find your house terrifically inviting and give the perception of it being impeccibly well-tended and clean, so, consequently, more sellable than someone else's. Reason being, you make it feel like home to them too! Or you could simply bribe potential buyer with these lovely cinnamon rolls. I bet this might push buyers over the edge. :)

Enjoy your weekend.

-Arlene

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hansjoakim

You can look back at what sounds like a most fascinating working career. I envy you those years in the Arctic. Well, it seems that you can look ahead towards a most fruitful future in baking :)

By the way, Arlene's right, you know! I read about a survey where a slew of people were asked to rank their favourite smells. Not surprisingly, freshly baked bread came out among the highest rated smells (among cut grass and baking cookies if I'm not mistaken).

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xaipete

Looks good, Dave. Thanks for the introduction. It's always nice to know something personal about the people who post here. Do you plan to rig of a steam injector for your oven? It seems like a natural for you.

--Pamela

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Nomadcruiser53

Maybe I could run a steam line from my double boiler espresso machine :) Seriously though, steam injection is certainly something a guy could look at since we will be eventually buy all new appliances and do a total revamp of the kitchen. It's looking like when I finally do retire I'll be way to busy to even hold a part time job. Dave