How's your Thursday going, friends?
Today is our first full day of summer break
to stay home.
All day.
All day long, we stayed home.
Which is all fine and good for me,
cause I loves me some home.
But, the vibe I'm getting from the rest of the crowd,
it's very boring.
Good.
That means I'm doing my job well.
We'll venture out tomorrow.
I made some dee-lish multi-grain bread today.
Mercy, does freshly baked bread ever smell glorious.
The taste is pretty amazing, too.

In case you wanna try it at your home:
Makes three lovely loaves!
6 cups freshly milled wheat
3 cups freshly milled: rye, millet, spelt, barley, oat groats
1/4 cup (approximately) freshly ground golden and brown flax seed
1/4 cup vital wheat gluten (or more:)
3 tsp. sea salt
3 cups warm water
1/2 cup honey
1 1/2 Tbl. yeast
4 1/2 Tbls. melted butter (not too warm!)
*Of course you can use any blend
of grain you want for your flour.
Just make sure it's a total of 9 cups.
I usually soak six cups of it in warm water
with 3 Tbl. vinegar.
I'm too lazy to write out all the directions.
If you're a seasoned bread baker, you know the drill.
Just mix everything up as usual,
knead and let rise as you would any bread recipe.
Top with egg wash, freshly rolled oats and
semi-ground flax seed.
Bake at 350 for 35 minutes.
If you need detailed instructions, shoot me an email
and I'll try to do that for you!
***
Oh, Wanda.
I had told all of you earlier
of Wanda's untimely demise,
then corrected myself that it wasn't
in fact Wanda and Dorothy,
but Leonard and Hal, who perished
on that dreadful day at the hands
of the other roosters.
(They do have hands, you know.
Where do you think they get
chicken fingers?)
Anyway,
not sure any of that made a lick of sense.
But the real deal is,
Wanda and Dorothy are alive and well.
Take a look.
Wanda is looking especially elegant today,
wouldn't you say?
(And yes, the roosters next to
her are who stole her lover away).
I do hope you're keeping up
with this poultry soap opera.

And look.
She and Dorothy got red highlights.
They are obviously moving on with their lives,
sans Leonard and Hal.
Good for them.

I really can't decide this these
are the ugliest or most adorable creatures
I've ever laid eyes on.
I just don't know.
But they do make me smile.