The wife again started out this morning telling me I needed to buy a loaf of bread. Despite having sacks of flour stored away in the freezer.
I keep about a pound or 2 in some big glass jars (formerly held nachos) at room temp for easy access.
Grabbed the stew pot, dumped in flour, no measuring. Whet gluten another dash (makes the texture really nice) yeast, no measuring, a dash of honey just for grins but not necessary, and very warm water added until the right consistency.
You really do not need to knead bread all that much like the YouTube videos say. You do need to mix it, but the flour will over about 20 min firm up as the water spreads thru the flour and the gluten will form. Grease up your hands, knead it a bit to make it nice and smooth surface.
Today just to mix things up, I oiled up the cast iron pan, put in some cornmeal as shown and sprinkled more cornmeal on top. Then sprinkled some rock salt on top. I find that gives better flavor to salt the crust vs salt in the entire loaf.
Bake until brown, and let cool so that the starch firms up and does its thing. Too fast to eat from the oven gives you a gummy bread.
All in all the whole process took less work than going to the store. It is the weekend and I like to stay home in my nice quiet neighborhood away from the riff-raff I see all thru the week.
Meanwhile the Telegram group I am in, has a guy who has been posting the various reports of the coming spiciness in the Ukraine. He told me that he was told by someone more connected that to expect war in Feb 2022. He did not believe it, but well, we see now it is look inevitable and the Russians are seeing the same stuff we are seeing from open data sources.
Poland has announced that the roads will be occupied by military convoys heading East. Missiles were moved to the front. Flight tracking shows the US flying everything to Europe.
Putin gave his response to the Rothschilds beast system that they will no longer participate in the US Dollar system and the SWIFT bank system. This all seems connected. Every country that announced decoupling from the USD has been destroyed with the exception of Russia and China.
I was hoping for a respite. To no avail.
Now here is a speculation. No proof or anything. What if the fertilizer shortages are not completely due to the high fuel price explanation? What if it was diverted to explosives manufacturing? Just a thought.
France going full retard with Macron sending out the tanks to stop the convoys.
DHS keeps talking nonsense about the Super Bowl and a blockade, but I have seen ZERO talk about that in the convoy organizing page. The fa USGOV hits you while he cries out in pain and blames you for it. Abusive relationship indeed.
Canada and givesendgo are at odds. The illegitimate Trudeau gov makes their false claims and doubles down. Those at the top are all Klaus Schwab/Beast System people.
More and more evidence coming out that the USGOV or rather those in the deep state beast system who control the USGOV have their fingers in the drug trade. No surprise as we already know the Mex gov gave the cartels license to operate in Mex as long as certain conditions were met.
Nothing I can do on the big picture things however. Best I can do is monitor the weather and try to survive.
Btw the weather in SE Asia is perfect for a Taiwan invasion and will remain so for a couple months. However no info coming out about troops massing, but then again, are the China port closures COVID or a military preparation?
I do know that my shipment from Shanghai via FedEx was unusually speedy this week. Which may indicate that Shanghai is not bottlenecked at the moment. I got a big extrusion screw sent from there cause the local shops asked me 1500 dollars to make the same item I bought in Shanghai for 165 bucks. Likely the local shops would have made it to substandard quality as well. Rather not buy from there but getting the essential vitamin parts to make my own stuff, I will not cut my throat to buy this item from the West that is likely the same Chinese crap laundered with a new made in (insert country here)
Bread update
It is every bit as delicious as you can imagine. Whipped some cream, European butter, salt, powdered skim milk together into a whipped butter that was like frosting.
Served with coleslaw/tuna. Perfect brunch for the weekend. Not overly full.