Foggy, Black Friday

Despite being assured that today was going to be the last of a string of glorious, almost winter, days - it has started out very foggy.

I have made my favorite breakfast, one that is very hearty and keeps me going - sometimes right through until dinner.

It is a delicious blend of sauteed onions, tomatoes and (in this case) arugula - this is made into a 'nest' over a corn tortilla, then I add an egg and sprinkle feta cheese over all.  It gets popped into a 350 oven and bakes until the egg is done to your liking - in my case, well done.  Lots of protein, and a generous helping of veggies - it's even gluten free!






I think I'm going to need all of my energy today.  Despite promising myself that I would spend the day finishing up hats, and tagging jewelry, all to go down to the Jelly Bean Tree, it seems Michael's had other plans for my day.  I am loathe to go out on Black Friday, but Michael's sent me 2 really great coupons in this morning's e-mail, and I am in desperate need of more 'Shrinky Dinks', so off to Michael's I go.  At least it's on the outskirts of Keene, so I shouldn't have to get to involved with the shopping madness.

I have a number of new designs for 'Tea Time' brooches and am committed to spending the rest of the weekend, baking, making, coating and designing a host of brooches for Etsy - after all, 'tis the season!

Let's begin at the beginning - today is Sunday the 18th of November.  Starting a blog is on my list of things to get to.  So, today's the day.  Having discovered fairly recently that I can no longer tolerate gluten - which is a terrible thing for a baker - I have started collecting gluten free flours, ingredients and recipes.  At some point I want to get into the kitchen and actually use the items I'm collecting.  Today I'm going to bake breads - I buy Bob's Red Mill bread mixes.  I find them tasty, the whole grain one is particularly good, but it's a little strong in flavor (onion-ey) to make a good toast and jam sort of bread, plus I find it doesn't cut well - it falls apart.  When I bake my breads I do 4 loaves at a time - they take a long time to rise and bake, so to me it makes more sense to bake more than one loaf.  I do 3 white breads, and 1 whole grain.  Being the whole grain fall apart I make crumbs out of it and use them in meatloaf, meatballs etc.. Yay!  Something else I can add back into my diet.

Here are 4 loaves almost ready for the oven




All done - wasn't that fun?