I’ve made this spiral bread recipe a couple times lately, and since you get three loaves per recipe, I’ve actually made 5 “loaves” (one to go).
2 of the “loaves” have been pizza crusts. It’s great to have a pizza crust 20 minutes from being ready in the fridge. And it works pretty damn well for pizza…but I’m more interested in the bread.
It’s pretty simple–you make dough, roll it into a long rectangle, put stuff on top, then roll it up into a loaf. This one is herb bread: oregano, basil, fennel seeds and a little bit of sauted garlic. Parmesan works well too. You don’t really see the spiral unless you toast it. You should toast it though, because it looks cooler with the spiral marks.
One of the loaves was filled with honey and cinnamon. That was promising, but it needs some refining.
It’s supposed to be a good recipe for kaiser rolls too, so that’s what I’ll make with the last batch. If they are worth mentioning, I will report on them here.
I’ve been looking for something new to start baking and this seems like a good foundation. Eventually I will go back and try to conquer brownies, but for now, I will stick with something I understand a little better.
This is the part 2 of the Sister Cities performance. I lost the end as usual, but that’s what you get for using a caving camera to take video. Someone else was filming but I don’t know if I’ll ever see that video.
We had 17 people at this one and would have had 18 but for a bike accident (poor Tim)! Afterwards one of the organizers said she thought we were going to play 30 minutes. We’d have preferred to play more–getting all that momentum going in 15 minutes and then suddenly stopping is not ideal. But we were told we had 15 minutes and so that’s how long we played.
Check out the reflection of the Picasso in the background!
Anyway, I think it’ll be great just to play for all the loopsters and to hear us bouncing off all the big buildings. I’ve heard the ghytta bouncing off the distant peaks of the atlas mountains, but never off the Smurfit-Stone building. (Note: I know that isn’t actually near Daley Plaza, but that is the name of an actual building in the loop.)
