@CaptainGiraffe thanks :-) Fortunately I am better at physics than cooking :-)

@JohnRennie I'm guessing you didn't take a video? (I'm just curious to see what it looked like...) Also, hi John!

@Mithrandir24601 hi :-)

It looked just like curds and whey

But I wanna see the process happening! :P

Much like the final step here

@Stephie @Jolenealaska o/

@ElendilTheTall hello stranger!

Hi everyone! Happy Star Wars day! 😀

@Stephie @Cindy hi

\o/

how's tricks?

Chaotic?

are you asking me or telling me?

;D

Telling, unfortunately. At least school’s done for one child. I have a short break, then I’ll have to get my dough under control.

(After a long Skype session with my boss later today.)

Ugh

After barely communicating outside of e-mails for nearly 2 years, now I have an hour long video call with the office twice a week

I have that LM that’s a bit out of control. It was supposed to lounge in the fridge for up to a week. Now it’s plotting its escape after only three hours.

All this stuff we're talking about now? I could be doing it now.

@Stephie LM?

Ah.... so someone is trying “this online meeting thing”?

@ElendilTheTall Lievito Madre. Firm wheat sourdough. Very temperamental.

ah

sourdough is never worth it AFAIC

I am exploring various “plonk the dough in the fridge, pull it out when you need bread” approaches.

I'd rather just have lemon curd on regular bread ;)

Ohhhh, don’t give me ideas.

I have been crisis coping in the kitchen lately.

I've made quite a few simple pain de mie style loaves lately

start them at 7, have them ready by lunch

Also good.

no faffing around with high hydration

i made raisin focaccia a while back too

many little trips were made to the kitchen that day

I kind of don’t trust the village bakery (having observed the sales lady with some rather questionable hygiene behavior), the one in town seems to have decided to cut a few corners to increase profits Whuch means store bought sandwich bread or baking.

man

@ElendilTheTall I can imagine.

here in Scotland we have what are called morning rolls

well fired, batch baked rolls not too dissimilar to French bread

Ah?

you usually have them with Lorne (square) sausage or bacon

Ah!

so, they're sold at the butchers

last time I got some the butcher was chopping up some big joint. I asked for half a dozen rolls.

I have a batch of baguette dough in the fridge, ready for baguette rolls for breakfast.

He goes to the sink, rinses his hands for 2 seconds in cold water, then grabs the rolls

>.<

I blowtorched them

don't need E. Coli in a closed house TYVM

Yeah, I didn’t appreciate the rolls handled with bare hands after a big sneeze and nose-blowing. And for convenience and speed, no hand washing.

tbh I don't know the regs about butchers handling money and meat without washing their hands either

handing you change after cutting you a steak

<boke>

I am considerably more germophobic after my wedding day

Oh, wasn’t there a story about food poisoning?

yes

yes there was

the bitterness has faded, the desire not to get Campylobacteriosis again has not

And they say you will never forget the day...

Time for a little afternoon caffeine kick. Coffee or tea, coffee or tea...

coffee

any new board games to report?

my collection appears to be breeding

Another one on the way this week, Bärenpark

No, we have turned our focus towards outdoorsy/sporty things - after the ice skating season ended rather abruptly, we splurged on good rollerblades. And I am still trying to figure out how to do Zumba online.

It's German for 'Bear Park' ;)

I would have never known ;-)

what's the rule over there for going outside?

we're allowed one excursion per day for exercise

Major difference - while most countries decided on a „lockdown“, our government opted for „contact restrictions“. You can go out, but meet with only one person (will be increased soon) not part of your household. Lingering is tricky, but as long as there’s enough physical distance, you’re good.

ah

we're on no meeting outside the household

2m social distance

there's talk of letting family groups see each other

staggered 'back to work'

basically they're starting to say "right, a few more of you can catch this now and we'll see what happens"

Which leads to pretty dumb side effects - we have a few „scenic“ spots nearby. That are now overrun by city dwellers. Hubby‘s blood pressure went through the roof when we couldn’t even get to yesterday afternoon.

yes, we had a a stampede of motorhomes and southerners storm to the Highlands at the beginning of the lockdown

running to their second homes/boltholes

@ElendilTheTall same here. We‘ll see what the infection rates are going to be in two weeks.

good idea folks, you're only 3 hours from the nearest, tiny hospital now!

@ElendilTheTall some states in Germany restricted access to these, at least in the earlier phase.

people will be people I suppose

we plod on

So are the youngest TheTalls stuck at home, too?

yup

thank goodness the weather has been half decent

dry, sunny, but cool

the standard Scotsman uniform is appearing - shorts and puffa jacket

for when your legs are hot but your body is cold

A view that baffles the average continental European.

it baffles this half Englishman

maybe it's my continental European half that's vaggled

lol

baffled

Probably!

bye o/

@Cerberus are you there?

argh, now I'll have to work

@ElendilTheTall Hello!

I am now.

What happened to your other half?

@ElendilTheTall :o

@Stephie I can't wait to get back on the ice, once it's safe to do so. The ISU have done some free off-ice training/exercise videos recently, which are really good though :)

@Mithrandir24601 Our ice stadium thaws off by the end of March, so we missed about two weeks. And we are by no means pros - I still haven’t that backwards thing internalized. But for fun? Hey, it’s literally seven minutes from home, so it’s good exercise. Minor 1 is at that age where the teens hang out in groups. And let’s be honest, it does impress the girls when you can skate well and show off a bit.

@Stephie 7 Minutes?? You are very lucky :o Well, to be honest, ironically for the only sport I took to easily, I just enjoy it and don't really care what other people think :P Unless their thinking about what I'm doing can improve what I'm doing :D And the backwards bit is just psychological - it requires less effort than going forwards :P

LOL, I am sure I was that close. And then came Corona.

I bake too much to skip exercise.

@Mithrandir24601 I feel my years of dancing now give me trouble: I reflexively turn the toes outwards.

Now to wrap up the day: A bit of food porn.

Italian white with Lievito Madre and two kinds of “sort of” baguette with a two-day cold rise.

Definitely unplanned for today, but the dough had other ideas.

(Note my new bread peel! Happy Easter to me!)

Looks nice!

As to pornography, I'm having trouble telling which body part is which. But perhaps that was the intention.

@Stephie Niice :D I've currently got some lamb chump (something I've never tried before) in the oven :D

@Cerberus Well, it mostly involves the recipient’s eyes and imagination. And may negatively influence the poster’s hips.

@Mithrandir24601 Ohhhh, I haven’t had lamb in a while. For various reasons. But I miss it!

<plots secret binge on lamb chops when the rest of the family is away>

I know, I know.

But those shapes are rather suggestive.

>.<

@Cerberus I see stuff that I want to lather up in butter and just have my way with them.

Couldn't find my zester, but at least Stephie was right. This is tasty stuff.

@CaptainGiraffe Hehe I know the feeling.

Oh, yes, you definitely need a zester.