Daily Bread and Daily Respite

 I needed bread, and thought the fastest form, as usual when I don't feel like heating up the kitchen long, is hot biscuits.

So today I  made a batch and thought a different touch might be good.

Usual buttermilk sub made from whole milk and lemon juice, three table spoons Italian olive oil.

Mixture of durum whole wheat and bolted wheat, baking soda and baking powder, salt, with a new addition, a tablespoon each of dried sage, from my plant, and lime zest which needed using, been in the freezer long enough. 425° ten minutes.

It worked okay, could have used more flavoring but I hadn't wanted to overwhelm the taste.

Lunch, leek potato soup with a sprig of fresh sage on top, and a hot biscuit, split and buttered with Irish butter. Pretty good.

When you're not in the mood for cooking but need to eat, a bit of decoration on top of the soup is very cheering.

Speaking of cheering, I continue to get daily cheerful messages from  Clara Parkes Daily Respite, which she started to help us get through the pandemic. 

I signed up for daily emails, and they're great. Sometimes funny video, sometimes amazing ideas, sometimes her own Vimeo of the water's edge and the sound of little waves near her Maine home.

Highly recommended. She's a designer and very creative person, and you can Google her to find out how to sign up. No, she doesn't know I'm saying this! 

Now I'm reading Bess Crawford, dozing and keeping cool. We had rain overnight, just storms, nothing like the flooding further north. The hurricane hasn't arrived yet. 

These were apparently unrelated rains. They provided us with all the humidity we can handle, which is why I walked this morning and am staying in this afternoon.

Happy Friday, dear readers.