Posts Tagged ‘dad’
Bread Making
About two weeks ago my dad and I went to learn how to make bread. A lady from my church ran it, and we ate the most DELICIOUS bread. The next day dad and I went a bit bread crazy, and we made breads, and pizza bases… so yum!
The bread we made in the video below was Ciabatta, an Italian loaf you can probably get in the bakery. It was fairly easy, but we did have to let it rise for 12 hours, so it took a bit of forward planning, and a whole lot of patience!!
Since then I’ve made a few more batches, and we’ve been eating the bread I’ve made for lunches. I’m a little bit annoyed because my own doesn’t seem to be making bread as nicely as mum and dad’s oven, or the oven we learnt on… it means that while these bread loaves are beautiful and soft, mine are always a bit hard- because the heat isn’t getting into the bread right… 
Apparently this is something that does happen, and a consideration when buying an oven. When we build I will be looking out for a super duper oven, but for now I think I’ll have to think of a way to make do with what I’ve got!
Anyway, this is how it went (let me know in the comments if you want the recipe, and I’ll type it up!):
Bread Making from Talia Carbis on Vimeo.
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Exceptions To The Rule
We’ve been making a Woodfire Pizza Oven at home over the last few weeks. In one weekend, after so many weeks of waiting, we basically put it all together and started the first fire and batch of pizzas!
Dad was putting the render on the outside, and showing Luke how to do it so he could help. The rule was “Only push the render up, don’t drag it down the pizza oven”. So that’s what Luke did. Later, towards the end I noticed Dad putting the render on sideways. I didn’t say anything, but I thought to myself, “there are (almost) always exceptions to the rules”. I know that for me, there are the odd exceptions when comic sans IS an okay font to use (I know it’s hard to belive…!), or that in cooking, sometimes odd flavours work, and that in craft, sometimes colour combinations that shouldn’t work, do. We can’t be too stuck in the rut, or 100% sure that the ‘rule’ is right.
Now that pizza oven is up and running we’ve used it quite a few times. It’s lovely to sit outside and enjoy some company, and relax. Perfect on these hotter nights! Here are some snaps of the building process:
Oh, and this also means that I can cross something off my list of things that needs to be finished!
1. Making the Christmas pressents for everyone <- very important!
2. Finish making Christmas quilt <- also quite important!
3. Finish bathroom
4. Finish woodfire pizza oven
5. Clean study
6. Edit photos for Pete and Rhys, and edit Video from Hayden’s 18th.
Those last two stare and me, hating me, but I WILL get them done. Eventually. :-S
The slideshow below goes through some of the stages of making the oven. Not sure if you’ll be able to view it in your reader, so if you can’t just click through and view in your browser!
Tags: creation, dad, exceptions, list, oven, pizza, rules, todo
My Dad…
My dad has four children, and one wife. He’s my boss, and my protector ( I have a few of them!).
He’s smart, caring, and loving.
Here we are, from youngest to oldest. I know I’m a few days late, but Happy Father’s Day!
