I think I need not tell you that these girls are oodles of fun. They were there on day 1 of the food adventures and experienced part 1 of bread making.
Exhibit A: bread making. Note that you should remove jewelry from your weird pruny old lady hands before kneading bread.
Then let the bread hang out under a towel to rise, butternut squash looking on.
This is the bread making work station. A tidy little mess.
This turned out to be a FAIL. Apparently leaving beans out for multiple hours, though required, must happen in the fridge, which sweet Alice Waters didn't tell me. So these suckers got nasty and had to be tossed. Back to square 1 on the navy beans, which prolonged this cooking process by 2 hours. Read ahead in the directions, folks. Read ahead...
Alice Waters, though she failed to mention the bean thing, is pretty awesome. Bread and fall minestrone soup recipes came from her book, pictured above.
This is the only picture of finished herb focaccia bread. Because I eated it all real fast after it came out of the oven. Actually I think I was far too sleepy to take the final bread pictures.
But whoa nelly, did that sucker rise! I love the science behind that.
Ya smoosh the dough out on that there pan, and ya let it sit AGAIN for 2 hours. Again, read ahead folks... read ahead...
And here we have the soup and round 2 of navy beans chugging right along (smelled amazing, ps).
Boom. Soup. For days. Freeze lefty, and enjoy righty. Later, defrost lefty and enjoy him too.
Different day, same cookbook. Roasted sweet potatoes with rosemary. YUM.
The slicing, dicing, pinching area. Where the magic starts.
Toaster oven, where some of the magic happens...
Big oven, where the rest of the magic happens! That's right. Two ovens going at once. One significantly smaller than the other.
It all turned out to be scrumptious! Broccoli, sweet potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, and butternut squash. Amen.
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