Thank you for the kind words. I hope so too!

I’ve tried twice and both times were a fail. I keep meaning to try again. This time I’m gonna try a steam pan at the bottom of the oven. What have you tried?

A flour based cooking spray. Works great.

No steam needed. It took me a while to develop this recipe. It’s so popular that I’ve made 8 loaves this month to give as holiday presents.

This will make two loaves.

Start with a Levain of 50/100/100

900g bread flour

400g buttermilk

Water 100g

20g salt

50g granulated sugar

110g butter

(I’ve found that there are different times of the year where I need to add more water than what I put up in the recipe, so you’ll have to play that by ear.)

Bake at 350°F for 45 minutes. Bread is done when it has reached 190°F.

As I said before, no steam is needed. The crust comes out nice and soft.

If you want a really soft version of this bread that is great for toasting and making grilled cheese sandwiches, you’ll want to check out this recipe here… https://mrfunkedude.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/sourdough-buttermilk-sandwich-bread/

That’s another recipe that I developed.

Enjoy!

Thank you very much! I’m glad that you found it informative.

Some Truths

1. Life sucks sometimes.
2. When it suck’s it’s usually because you want things to be different then they are.
3. There’s a way to fix that.
4. You can fix it by paying attention to your head and not letting the more dickish thoughts get the better of you.

How did they know Carol would pick up the phone to use it at Mr. Diabetes mansion? Security cameras?

Norrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

I really wish people would differentiate between “social media” and “corporate owned algorithmic social media” because there’s a huge difference.

That first sentence makes my brain itch. So many grammatical errors. I can’t tell if she’s happy or not?

Gee what a COINCIDENCE that they release this right after people dropped their subscriptions. That’s not manipulative at all! 🙄

Must resist adding a Star Fleet badge to his shirt… Must… Resist…

I’m convinced session three was produced by theater kids.

For the last year and a half. I started with Transcendental meditation. Then Vipasana in January and right not I’m learning Zen from “The Way” meditation app by Zen master and poet Henry Shukman. It’s actually very good and instructional. He’s created a series of paths that teach you step by step not only how to meditate but also how to expand awareness.

The first 12 are free and then there’s a monthly subscription. If you don’t have the money you can tell them and they will offer a much lower yearly discount or give it to you for free.

I highly recommend it.

The sourness that you taste in store-bought sour bread is usually from some type of acidic acid that they add to it. Baking sourdough at home and getting that sour taste is more or less like playing the lottery. To get that sour flavor, you need to have consistently specific temperatures in your kitchen, in your oven, etc. It’s not easy to do. I stopped worrying about that long ago. As long as the bread taste good, that’s all that really matters.

Honestly, it looks fine. The real question is, how does it taste?

Rachel Riley is a force all her own. You never want to underestimate her

You can only do what you can when you can. When it’s time too vote, vote. When it’s time to help your community, help them. When it’s time to lend your voice to the cause, then do so.

But most importantly, stay safe. Protect your loved ones. Do what’s needed to keep them safe even if it means finding safety elsewhere. People have survived this kinds of political authoritarianism before. People have survived fascist regimes before. You can too.

Thanks for the reply.

“inherently probabilistic and can’t be determined” is just another way of saying “random” or “we don’t know yet”.

If reality was not deterministic, the reliability of models and predictions in physics would be upended.

In a deterministic reality, where all things are due and subject to causation, there can be no free will. If we did not live in a causal reality, we’d never be able to make accurate predictions or models.

“Randomness” is not free will either. If you’re not in complete control of your influences, then you can not be said to have free will. Randomness does nothing to help the argument for free will.

With that said. Regardless of the existence of free will, what does exists is your awareness of what it’s like to be you. To be in the circumstances that currently govern your life. And in that awareness exists the boundless capacity for compassion. Once you understand that no one is in control of their lives, that all things are causal, it allows you to be less judgmental.

"If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, he will not become angry. He will simply guide his boat around it.

But if he sees a person in the boat, he will shout at the other to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, and the boats collide, he will curse the other person.

Yet, if the boat were empty, he would not be angry."

— Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)

I wrote a simple explanation of determinism in a blog post earlier this year (there’s an audio version available as well.) https://mrfunkedude.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/following-the-strings/