As you may know, I have been practicing baking no knead bread. I think I have the system pretty well figured out, at least for here in Reno. With the elevation of about 4500 feet the recipes seem to need some tweaking. The white bread most closely resembles to me a fine artisan bread. The most important criteria seems to be how wet the dough is (the amount of water). Number two seems to be the nature of the container for the final proof (rising). this time I tried a loaf of regular white bread with parmesan cheese and black olives. Although I deviated from the recipe the bread was outstanding.
I am posting excerpts from an email from a friend that recently moved from San Diego to the DC area. It shows her observations on life in a different world. I notice people here, on base, talk a lot about their gardens, which plants are in bloom, and how we need rain . They are not pedestrian friendly, definitely not pedestrian friendly. one woman stopped to allow me to walk from the store to the parking lot and the car behind her started to go around her and just about hit me. I had some profane words for car no. II Californians are in for a shock when dealing with east coast traffic. Slow as heck drivers. the I-95 is the main artery going N and S. Everyone is going N in a.m. into DC. It starts to back up a good 25 miles south of DC. I see the gridlock/parking lot from my on ramp. I-95 is only a 3 lane interstate and it is ugly with all the big rigs. there are yield signs getting onto the freeways, scary!! there is the HOV lanes with 2 lanes for 3 or more they open and c
Saturday pm we visited our friends John & Cindy Young near Dallas. They too, have a Renegade motorhome. They were rushing home early from Missouri to see us. We got to their house before they were home.
Our camera had died and we took advantage of the time to shop for a replacement camera. We went to a nearby Costco. Perhaps that was a mistake. Dianne found all manner of other things that we “desperately needed”. The next morning, John suggested we visit the nearby Fry’s Electronics store. Since we live near a Fry’s I didn’t have that great urge, but I still readily agreed to visit the store. We chose the Konica Minolta DiMage Z3.
Following a great visit we headed east mid day Monday. It was raining, very heavily at times. There were a lot of wrecks. There is a general idea that southern California drivers don’t know how to drive when it rains. Now it appears that other drivers can’t handle wet conditions either.
We stopped for the night near Shreveport, LA.
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