lummi island wine tasting february 24 ’17
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Bread this week
Whole Wheat Levain – made with levain, also known as sourdough, which is built up over the course of a several days before being incorporated with bread flour as well as fresh milled whole wheat and a bit of fresh milled rye, then fermented overnight in the refrigerator. A long cold ferment gives this bread a less sour flavor for sourdough than does a warmer and shorter ferment. A great all around bread full of flavor that makes great toast -$5/loaf
Pear Buckwheat – Like one of the breads last week this is made with a poolish where a part of the water and flour are fermented overnight. In this case the buckwheat flour is used in the poolish. The poolish is mixed with more bread flour for the final dough. The addition of toasted walnuts and dried pears complements the flavor of the earthiness of the buckwheat flour. This bread has great flavor – $5/loaf
And for a bit of pastry…
Brioche au Chocolate – A rich brioche dough full of eggs, butter and sugar, rolled out and spread with pastry cream before sprinkling with dark chocolate. Folded over and cut into pieces these are really delicious! Be sure and get your orders in early as always with pastry I can only make a limited number and when they’re gone, they’re gone and you have to wait for the next appearance- 2/$5
Open Friday, closed Saturday
Last week, just home, we were introduced to the Janice & Sue Show at the wine shop, which we had, you know, heard about, but really we had never Actually Experienced what happens in the wine shop when we are Away.
So Here’s the Deal: people come in to pick up their bread. Someone (anyone) chooses a bottle of wine from the displays and buys it for the community tasting. That bottle is then opened and distributed, like, you know, Loaves and Fishes, until Empty.
Meanwhile, other people float in and pick additional wines, which are shared in similar manner. Bottom line: a Good Time is had by All!
All you need to know is that we are open Friday, 2/24 under this Club model, and closed Saturday.
We will reopen on our regular schedule next weekend, March 3-4. For now, please join us Friday night for the last of the Winter Improv Tastings!
Dreams of Sylvie
Sylvie was a Blue Merle Australian Shepherd that we brought home as a puppy in 1994. She was from herding lines, very focused. Always On Duty, she rarely closed her eyes except when sleeping in her crate. At precisely 8pm each night, she would stand up, jog to the laundry room door (where the dog crates were), and bark. That meant she was ready to go Off Duty and turn in for the night…and, oh yes, get her Bedtime Cookie…!
Sadly, in winter of ’06-’07 Sylvie developed lung cancer, and we lost her close to her thirteenth birthday in February, 2007. For some months, in Despair, I meditated on how we might bring her back to us. and at some point I had a strange and lucid image of two dogs. The foreground dog I have not yet seen in Real Life, a sort of Aussie/Corgie mix, no idea what to make of that. The background dog was clearly a red merle Australian Shepherd with unusual broad red and white stripes around its body. So imagine my surprise a few months later when a peculiar set of circumstances brought us Cooper…a red merle Aussie with unusual broad red and white stripes around his body. After taking him home we learned later that like his Aunt Sylvie he liked to go to bed at precisely 8 pm. Superstitious or not, it is all comforting fodder for metaphysical speculation.
Now that we have lost Coopie, we again lean toward the One Dog Theory of the Universe: there is only One Dog, in infinite Manifestations, whose Angelic Mission is to reflect our Basic Natures back to us in every moment. Therefore, we have Officially Posted our Ad in the Cosmic Yellow Pages for the next incarnation of Our One True Dog…
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