Ever since mom started realizing that sourdough is tasty and relatively inexpensive to make (well minus time and a growing array of accessories), she has started to see it as a new source of currency

I just threw some leftover schezuan on top of tortellini. I call it Mapo Polo

This weekend we learned that the little dramatic hop that springboks do is called "pronking"

My favorite way to hang out with friends in town is still to go run a totally mundane errand with them. Grocery run. Car wash. Random park with the kids. No pressure just a little company in the normal day to day

Today's loaf is an exercise in higher hydration and extra steam time. The crust is singing Child is getting more creative in her slashes

Part of my morning routine now is logging into mom's email and marking off all the spam and scams

Today's loaf. An experiment in skipping cold proofing. It's great and a little more sour. Also adding a second steam after the initial bounce. Resulted in a baguette-texture of crust which was super nice I let the kid cut the ear today and I am so brave

It's a queso in a baked potato kind of day

Baby's first home sourdough

Also I started walking regularly and with increasing distance when we got back and I am so mad that this shit feels good.

Do you know how much starter the kid has made. There is so much starter in the fridge Everyone on our street is getting bread

Quiz time! What are these?

I am this flavor of middle age

Our friend spent a week graciously and entertainingly teaching our older kid the art of sourdough and I think I need to go get the Costco pack of Kerrygold this week

Denver, if you're free on Monday, a mountain of free spuds awaits:

‘We genuinely have too many potatoes, I cannot stress enough’: 42,000 pounds of free taters headed to Denver

Twenty-one tons of potatoes are up for grabs at Potato Palooza on Monday.

denverite.com

I forgot how big pelicans are

Boarding the plane and told the kid to go to the windows Which is finishing out in my brain as is the curse of the elder millennial

I forget sometimes that people don't live and speak internet and I just made someone cackle because I told them to measure with their heart

Thanks to this girl scout camping trip I have learned that there are glue guns that work off of drill batteries and my mind went blooey

Also I am now actually trying to type "duck", please accept this autocorrect

My most American traits are truly that I really love ice in beverages and will dip French fries in everything.

We walked down pioneer square to the stadium to the CID and are now eating an inexplicable smoked duck dish that has really fantastic French fries which we are dipping in a bright green numbing spicy sauce while watching this game in Mandarin and it's everything

Also I accidentally introduced a bunch of children to hot milk cake and boiled roux frosting.

Cooking competitions need theme days like "kids birthday party" where you need to make frosting with a very enthusiastic and inquisitive kiddo and decorate a cake in half an hour while you get random texts from parents with last minute questions and requests

Look if the library has both copies open, my favorite way to consume a book is having both the audiobook and ebook and swapping between for fastest "getting this in my brain" time I think there are probably ways to have the two copies sync but I don't mind flipping and rereading

Pike Place Market is so much better to visit now that they've blocked traffic on the small section of street. Just so much more relaxed and people have more space to chill

We are in Pioneer Square watching this game and it's been the most fun to see this with people

There was a deer in our backyard and our senior dog, for once, actually realized it was there and started growling. Younger kid let him out There was no chance he was gonna get that deer but that baby's border collie roots were so happy for five seconds

My brother is remote shopping me through Costco one photo at a time and it is pretty funny as he stocks a cart full of things for mom to drag back to the states

My birthday party plan for the last two years for the now 11 year old is to let her pick like minded friends and two or three ridiculous Klutz Craft kits that I usually say are too messy and expensive and let them go to town on whatever slime/foam/clay thing they have been coveting