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Off to grandma's house we go...

alfanso's picture
alfanso

Off to grandma's house we go...

Well, really to the In Laws.  I've been baking up and warehousing a few different breads to pack in my bags as treats for them.  They've been documented here before, but here's the lot of them:

1 dmsnyder style son of SJSD batard (sesame seeds added just for kicks!)

1 Forkish bakery style Raisin Pecan Whole Wheat Levain batard

1 FWSY Field Blend #2 Levain batard

1 dmsnyder style Italian Sesame Levain batard 

1 Forkish bakery style Country Brown Levain batard

 

That should hold them for a while!

alan

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dmsnyder's picture
dmsnyder

they are suitably impressed!

Have a safe trip!

David

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alfanso

 

these made it safely and still frozen.  Packed in checked luggage.  A flexible insulated bag, a set of blue ice blocks, the batards and a box of homemade boyos** nestled safely inside.  Packed at 5 AM, retrieved and back into the freezer at a little past noon.  They took up a full half of my 21" roller bag, gusset expanded :-o .

**boyos are cheese and spinach filled doughs, a specialty of Rhodes and Turkish Sephards.  And totally addicting.  These are my wife's domain.  I simply do as told.  Did I mention totally addicting?  These to be delivered to our friend's mother for her surprise 90th on Sunday.  The link I found features, as it turns out, our friend Renee in Portland.  http://204.130.176.200/news/npr/166686060 .  My wife's version is a little different, and as with many old generational recipes as hand-me-downs, there are multiple versions and inaccurate measurements.  Measurements like 'a small handful' - which is somewhat useless because whose hand and how big, etc.

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dabrownman

diet avoiding in laws are the very best to have!  This means you have a a chance for a perfect life  if your wife is wealthy, brilliant, beautiful, generous and totally smitten by you!  Just like mine..... if she peering  in :-)  That is a load of white bread with one 30% whole grain bread & raisins in there to break up the monotony!  We have to get you on the whole grain trail to Nirvana !  Well done, safe travels and

Happy In - Law Visiting - I used to bring a bottle of whisky - hope the bread works just as well.......     

alfanso's picture
alfanso

as is the Country Brown, and the Italian batard is 40% durum wheat.  So my batting average for a fair amount of non AP flour is pretty good here, especially for me.  I'd mentioned way back that my wife - all of those things that you said pertain to her here too for the same reasons, has been iffy with fibrous foods, so I have to strike a happy medium around these parts.

If I do bring a bottle of whiskey it'll be for self-medication around them ;-), and then I can use the empty bottle for self defense when they get tired of my endless drunken jabbering'.

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WendySusan

DAB...For them or you???  LOL

My outlaws live in town so I regularly lose extra loaves to them.   All those loaves look delish.

I'm now the carb avoider...temporarily anyway...its summer and those extra pounds have been commanded to leave. 

Mini Oven's picture
Mini Oven

if I got a discount for cracked open loaves...  

His sister used to state... "You really have to love a man to bake him rye bread."   ...I never knew how to take that one.  :)

dmsnyder's picture
dmsnyder

But self-love works for me. :-)

David

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pmccool

the definition of pumpernickel that is associated with evil wind sprites, aka devil's farts.  None of this business about Napoleon and his horse.

Paul