Monthly Archives: September 2015

Yincut Zenith

Wonder Wednesday

iamthedivacztLaura Harms is back from her summer vacation and has challenged us to use the newly publicized official tangle Zenith. It was publicly released last week and although I thought it looked like a fun tangle, I did not play with it yet.

FB□1 ~ LifeofJoy.meThe focus of the Facebook group Square One Purely Zentangle this week is Yincut. I didn’t really like yincut before because of the sparkle in it but when I recently realized that it could be drawn without the sparkle it came way up on my list of tangles. ;) So I combined the two on this tile.

As I said, I had not played with Zenith at all before this tile. I drew a loopy string and tried to apply zenith to it. That did not go so well. I flipped my tile over (obviously, I’m not using official Zentangle tiles because the back of mine are blank) and tried again with two diagonal lines and then one in the opposite direction.

My second attempt at Zenith was on the two diagonal lines. I made my initial curves too small and then I didn’t realize I was supposed to aura before adding the orbs. :\  Oh well…I had another opportunity with the other diagonal line. I drew it hollibaugh fashion, behind the first two and much larger. This worked much better and I like it that way.

Yincut Zenith ~ Lifeofjoy.meThis tile was a bit hurried because we’ve had family drama this week and I agreed to go with Lauren to a thing at her church last night, so I rushed myself a bit to get the post up in time. I enjoyed my time with Lauren and am glad she asked me to come along. It’s good to have time alone together. :)

Thank you!!!

Since I had done the three audio meditation challenges prior to last week’s Guest Diva Challenge, I also did the Betweed challenge. Thus I had four links on Mr. Linky because each of the audios were done separately and had their own pages, as well as my Betweed tile.

I just want to thank everyone that took time to visit my pages and comment or like the posts. Your words were very encouraging! Thank you so much. I did try to visit your posts as well and leave comments in return . . . I’m sorry if I missed anyone.

Well, it’s getting late and I need to get this post wrapped up. I hope you have a wonderful week!

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes

Tasty Tuesday

Artisan Bread ~ Lifeofjoy.meWell, I guess I have teased you with the bread recipe for long enough and that it is now time for me to share this it with you!

For this, oh so difficult recipe, you need 3 cups of warm water, 1 tablespoon yeast, 1 tablespoon salt, and 6 1/2 cups all purpose flour. Yes, all four exotic ingredients. ;)

The first time I made it I used a regular dry measuring cup to measure my warm water but ended up using my digital scales to measure the flour.

Water, Yeast, and Salt ~ Lifeofjoy.meAdd Flour ~ Lifeofjoy.me

And stir until there are no clumps of flour. This should not take very long at all. The entire process should take about 5 minutes.

Stir Dough ~ Lifeofjoy.me

Next you cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let rise for 2 hours. Then place it in the refrigerator until you want to have bread. :)Cover Dough ~ Lifeofjoy.me

I forgot to get a picture of the process of baking the bread. :\

You take a grapefruit size piece of dough and quickly shape it by pulling the dough under the ball, rotate a quarter turn and repeat until you have a nice smooth top. Place the dough ball onto the pizza peel sprinkled with cornmeal, pan with parchment paper, or pan with silicone mat. Let it rest and rise for 40 minutes or up to 90 minutes or so.

Place a baking stone in the middle of the oven with a broiler pan beneath it. PREHEAT the oven to 450º for 20-30 minutes before ready to bake.

When the rest time has elapsed, dust the top of the bread with flour and slash the top of the dough. Place the bread onto the baking stone and pour 1 cup of hot water into the broiler pan. Quickly close the oven to capture the steam inside. Bake for 30-35 minutes.

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Artisan Bread in Five Minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 cups (680 grams) lukewarm water
  • 1 tablespoon (10 grams) granulated yeast
  • 1 tablespoon (17-25 grams) kosher salt (I used table sea salt)
  • 6 1/2 cups (910 grams) all-purpose flour
  • couple tablespoons cornmeal to slide the dough off the peel easily

Instructions

  1. Put the water into the large bowl.
  2. Add yeast and salt.
  3. Add flour and combine. DO NOT OVERWORK the dough. Do not knead it either.
  4. Cover with plastic wrap, loosely.
  5. Rest on the counter for 2 hours and then refrigerate.
  6. Baking Day:
  7. Sprinkle some cornmeal on pizza peel.
  8. Sprinkle a tiny bit of flour on top of dough and grab a handful of dough about the size of a grapefruit and cut it off with scissors.
  9. "Cloak" it by pulling the side down under, rotating the dough and pulling the side underneath until the top is smooth - about 20 seconds or so.
  10. Set the dough, smooth side up, onto the cornmeal and let it rest/rise for 40 minutes.
  11. Preheat oven to 450º for 20-30 minutes with a baking stone in the middle of the oven and a broiler pan beneath it.
  12. Sprinkle flour atop the dough and make a couple of slash marks into the dough about 1/2 inch deep to allow the bread to rise more.
  13. Place on the baking stone and pour one cup hot water into the broiler pan. Quickly close the oven door to trap in the steam.
  14. Bake for 30-35 minutes.
  15. Remove from oven and cool for 1-2 hours.
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I’ll try to add more pictures when I find them, as I thought I took pictures of the process of preparing to bake the bread.

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº