Andrea Roceal @Roceal@aus.social

All my pan au levain is eaten up. I guess it's time to pull the chef out of the fridge and kick off another batch.

A good slather of butter hides the salt deficiency quite well.

Baguette tasting notes:

* Crumb / texture: nailed it
* Crust: also perfect
* Flavour: pretty bland. Chef is still pretty young & I didn't add enough salt

Overall rating: 6/10

Boule is very meh, probably should have just made 3 baguettes. Oh well, so pleased with the two baguettes that I don't even mind. Waiting for them to cool off is the hardest part!

OK, I'm pretty darn chuffed with how these 2 turned out. Boule got too hot / unevenly baked, possibly. Giving it a few more minutes because despite being quite dark on one side it didn't sound hollow.

Bake, my pretties!

An inconvenient day for my bread paddle to fall apart 🤨

Dough is divided and resting. I think two will be shaped into baguettes and one will be a boule.

Baby Levain, ready to ripen.

Wednesday night is tabletop RPG night. Our Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign is now interstate; since we can't all be in the same room anyway, we reinstated a player that moved out of town. ☺️

Starter is already looking lively.

To balance out the minor miracle of one of my children spontaneously deciding to wash the dishes, both the induction cooker and the tumble dryer decided to break down today 😭

Finally got my chef (sourdough starter) rolling today.

The veggie patch is now decked out with peas and snow peas. The peas have suffered the most attrition, something took out 4 of the seedlings before I could get Eco-Oil on everything.

We inherited these self watering pots from friends moving overseas, so I can finally get some fresh herbs happening again. I'm especially excited about the French tarragon.

It kind of festered and went feral after reno no. 2 due to spending all my spare time parenting small twins, but I am grateful my dad was here in Feb to help me clear out a whole pile of crap and set everything up for a fresh attempt. The ground cover (dichondra repens) needs to recover but we have pulled out a huge chunk of weeds and put in some new food producing plants.

The only thing I really cared about saving from that edition of the garden was the plum tree, which unfortunately gave up the ghost during reno no. 2, possibly wiped out by the annoying decorative ginger in front of it.

Here's a photo I dredged up of the state of the yard when we first bought our house during the initial move in reno. It was pretty daggy, the plant choices did not align with my garden philosophy, and there were pavers everywhere.

Going to show off my garden a bit, it's nothing spectacular, but it's the nicest it's been in the decade I've lived in this house.

Rubbish sleep last night. Had a nap this arvo after doing chores and listening to Puddles the Clown.