Humanyms

Braided Spinach Bread and Minestrone Soup

Few things are more relaxing than making bread and soup (when it works). And this worked:

[Getting the raw ingredients chopped, some red onions, shallots, celery and lots of carrots with some beans, canned, and dried inside a soup mix of pasta and split peas]

[After some serious time, simmering the rest is next.]

[Kneading bread dough. It was based on a bread bun recipe so was a little sweet. That was offset because the primarily unbleached all purpose flour had mixed in a bit of quinoa flour (which tends to be bitter), wheat germ with oatmeal thrown in as well.]

[Floury toes are part of the sensual process.]

[For a stuffing some chopped fresh spinach, 4% fat Allegro cheese, grated some curried cauliflower with some hot pepper flakes for bite]

[Somehow the idea of a simple loaf idea got enlarged into one that is stuffed and braided.]

[Baked braided bread topped with a little olive oil and parmesan to promote color.]

[The final plated combo with the stripes of cheese and spinach and spiced veggie.]

Featured Quote: “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.” ~ Mae West

Food Link:Chocolate silk pie recipe looks tempting.

Science Link: eye tracking a webpage (via Presurfer) shows I reeeally should reduce my number of links on my sidebar. And against that end I added another link for navigation, a category for posts like these that aren’t just the meal photo but a few of the cooking process.

Household Tip: I use those chip clips to close packages, twist ties of paper covered wire but this seems to close much more airtight. They may break, I don’t know but so far, so good.

Listening Microskill: Talk: Communication takes genuine exchange of different data while reaching for consensus. You both lose some potential wealth if you listen only or talk for your “side” only.

Soundtrack: Madonna’s Frozen (“you’re broken when your heart’s not open”)

Glad Game: That Danny’s Daily is continuing his humor pages and mailout despite people who have no sense of humor.

Glad that I heard what Elizabeth Gilbert said about nourishing the cells that make you resonate, hum, sing. What doesn’t work we don’t have to move away from. We can can just move towards what does work.

Glad for the man in the office building lobby who dropped a sheet and was hailed by 3 people who moved forward at him from 3 directions to tell him his paper had dropped.

Glad for cat wanting to be near and choosing to express that as sleeping on my bag instead of knocking over my CDs on my desk, or crawling all over me. This way we are both happy.

Glad to see the view outside my window changing to get a slight cast of budding green going on.