Oh yeah...

Sunny, crisp fall day, leaves blowing all around, and bread baking in the oven.  My soup smells wonderful and some days just don’t get any better than that!

I wish you could hear my crust “singing”!  It sounds like rice krispies!

Time to go lay down for a bit so I don’t pass out tonight!

Mmmm...

It already smells good! 

Just a small pot of sauce, I’m making lasagna tonight.  I really had a craving for chicken parmesan, but my quilt group meets tonight so I needed something easy that Jim could just heat up when he gets home, as I’ll likely be gone by then.

I’ve had a batch of dough fermenting for a few days, and will make a nice crusty loaf of bread to go along with the lasagna.

Can’t you just smell that?  I go crazy over the aroma of fermented dough, I really don’t even care for bread anymore that uses dough mixed the same day.

All shaped and ready to rise for a couple of hours, then it gets baked in a clay dutch oven at 500 degrees.

I’m very sad that my garden was such a flop this year, as I’m nearly out of my canned tomato sauce.  Without it, I can’t make a really good sauce.  When I can tomatoes for making marinara and sauces, I  run all my tomatoes along with some peppers, onions and garlic through my food mill, so it’s pure juice, then simmer it down all day long until most of the water cookes off, leaving an intensely concentrated sauce… it’s just incredible! 

For lasagna sauce, I add more onions and garlic, portobella mushrooms, fresh rosemary and basil, red wine, and a handful of diced sun dried tomatoes, they make the flavor explode on your tongue!  Oh and of course Italian sausage.. I use sweet for lasagna.

Now that dinner is out of the way, I’m going to work on the pink and green toddler quilt some more.  Here’s my progress so far… yep, I’m sure taking my sweet time with this one!

It’d be nice if I finished the blocks up today, but I’m not holding my breath.  I’d rather be cooking… or out driving the Magster!

I did get another asparagus bed weeded, so all three of them are done.  When enough leaves come down, I’ll rake them and mulch the beds with the leaves.