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@pinguluv7 / pinguluv7.tumblr.com

A blog of all the things I love, especially my wife!
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fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

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unbossed

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

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petermorwood

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this

can we have more posts like this in future please? this is really useful and could help those who are struggling

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cricketcat9

Does anyone know how to adjust recipes for baking on a high altitude? More yeast? Less yeast? Internet opinions are conflicting. Made pizza dough according to an adjusted recipe, edible, not so good :-(

the reason i’m still on tumblr.

Just be careful using terra cotta pots to bake in. A lot of them aren’t food safe & have industrial shit on them.

Honestly, bread baking is one of my favorite mental health coping tasks, it’s not a ton of work, it smells so good, even when you’re mixing it up, you get to work out excess energy, anger, stress, whatever while kneading, and homemade bread, which is just…yes.

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40 Thoughts You’ll Have While Dry Humping Your Girlfriend

This is so funny but so right hahah made by : Kitschmix.com 

1. She’s literally just rubbing herself against my butt right now.

2. This doesn’t really do anything for me.

3. Oh wait, that moan in my ear does a little something.

4. If I moan back maybe she’ll fondle my boobs.

5. OK, she’s way more excited than I am – boob fondling is not the business.

6. For the love of all that is holy, please stop humping my butt.

7. Maybe if I roll over, she’ll hump my front instead.

8. Oh yes – now she’s on top of me.

9. Wait, why did she slow down?

10. Is she about to finish?

11. Nope, you’re not getting off if I can’t get off.

12. She’s trying to undo my pants. Do I let her?

13. She started teasing, so she should definitely keep teasing for a while.

14. Screw this, teasing sucks.

15. Wait… Teasing isn’t so bad after all.

16. Is it bad that I want her to beg for it?

17. Crap… I’m about to beg for it.

18. LOL, I can feel how wet she is.

19. Can she feel how wet I am right now?

20. Well, she definitely noticed – and for some reason felt the need to comment on it.

21. Why is someone grinding against me so sexy?

22. That face she just made isn’t very sexy, though.

23. But that moan definitely was.

24. Can’t we just get to business already?

25. Note to self: I am a classy lady.

26. Second note to self: Dry humping doesn’t make me feel very classy.

27. Dry humping makes me feel like a teenager.

28. Did I dry hump when I was a teenager?

29. I definitely dry humped my first girlfriend.

30. I wonder what she’s doing now.

31. No – stop! Don’t think about your ex right now!

32. Didn’t she eventually decide she was straight though?

33. Didn’t really seem so straight when she was pressed against me.

34. This dry humping thing isn’t really doing it – maybe if I take off my pants, it’ll work better.

35. I repeat: I am a classy lady.

36. Classy ladies don’t take off their pants right away.

37. But classy ladies don’t dry hump either.

38. Why can’t we be classy and still have lots of sex?

39. Why am I not having sex right now?

40. Screw it – let’s have sex.

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I wonder if my girlfriend knows how fucking beautiful she really is

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My mind was blown…

you didnt notice immediately? It was distracting to me. like…what went wrong, Patty? Why did you make these decisions? you were full of such potential as a child

Took me three seasons. Like “WHY I KNOW THIS VOICE?!?!”

pinguluv7 omgggggg

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