Cooler day, lower humidity, bread returns

After days of high humidity, yesterday 92%, not useful for baking, today was cooler, drier, and I was out of bread other than banana and corn. 

So I seized the day, and here's four loaves in one. One complete recipe, that is, all baked at once. Whole-wheat, bit of white, bit of oatmeal. Caraway seeds strewn around on top, and I had to sweep them up, too. They get around.

Now Hammond Cheese sandwiches with interesting stuff spread on, can happen. I made a spread of softened butter and a bunch of fresh herbs, good for this purpose.

Bread, new twist

No pic, you've seen bread before. It's just that this time I put two cups of oats with the 5.5 cups of whole-wheat, and shook in some fennel seeds.

Really good idea. I've used oats before. It doesn't rise as much as with all flour, but it's dense and very good, great crust. And the fennel seeds, never used them before, are a great licorice flavor, very light, and really interesting. I'd reached for caraway seeds, found I had none, and tried these.

I'll do this again. Cheese toasted on slices for supper was very worth eating.

Artisanal afternoon break

Scene: indoors, mid-afternoon, July, temp in mid nineties, feels even hotter, who cares, once it gets up there, might as well be 150f.
 

Break from morning at knitting group, afternoon home again, piecing.

Homemade everything: lemonade, whole wheat bread, yogurt cheese, apricot preserves. Puffick!