Weekend Update

1. FRIDAY-Decide to try out the Cranberry Orange Spelt muffins for breakfast this weekend since the whole sourdough thing failed miserably.  This necessitated a trip to the hippie grocery store (b/c in this area of the country you don't find spelt flour in those suburban supermarkets).  Anyway, after being in the green hippie mart, I had enough self-righteous smug to power my eco-unfriendly SUV all the way home. (Don't get me wrong.  I like the self righteous smug.  I think they pipe it in to help you get over paying $5.99/lb for the same grass fed beef I can get at the farmers' market for $3.50/lb.)  Once home, the spelt flour went into the cranberry orange muffin batter and the whole thing rested overnight.  

SATURDAY-Bake the muffin batter with the streusel topping.  They looked really good.  And let me tell you, they tasted amazing.  I had mine with butter and apple butter and they were swoon worthy.  Recipe coming in a different post.  

2.  SATURDAY-Make up for being a total slacker in the garden and spend 1.5 hours resurrecting the peas, garlic, and onions from the weeds.  Make up for being a total slacker in the flower beds over the last YEAR and spend 3 hours muttering obscenities at bermuda grass and wild hedge while promising self we'd be a grown-up this year and exercise way more discipline in the weekly weeding.  SUNDAY-Spend copious amounts of time whining about muscle soreness and back pain but admit it is proper punishment for having let the weed situation get out of hand.

3.  SUNDAY - Remix a sourdough starter using non-chlorinated water and unbleached all purpose flour.  I want my sourdough pancakes and I will get my sourdough pancakes.  So really, it should just give up trying to thwart me and cooperate.