Amazing things are happening in my kitchen today.
Adele and I both had plans that required baked mashed potatoes.
So we started our day baking potatoes.
Then, Adele used the potatoes to make homemade potato rolls...
to go with the meatloaf and carrots she is making (under benevolent supervision) for dinner tonight.
Wow!
(Adele is often so busy in our kitchen now that I am somewhat relegated to sous chef/ dihswasher, but I can't say I mind.)
It's a joy to watch her and advise her when needed.
And I get to eat what she makes.
Today, I also made hopps starter with my portion of the morning's baked potatoes.
This is a mixture of a "hopps tea" made from dry hopps flowers steeped like tea, then strained, then some of the "tea" is boiled with cornmeal, then all of everything is mixed in a big bowl with mashed potatoes, sugar and salt...
this ferments on my counter in a warm spot for at least twenty four hours...
before mellowing in the fridge for a few days...
before I stir it and use it to make the next bread in Bernard Clayton's Complete Book of Bread.
Like I said, amazing things are happening here!
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