White Chocolate Bread Recipe

I found this recipe in a pile of paper in the basement. I think it was from a resort in the Caribbean of all places. Makes about 4 small loaves.

Ingredients:

1 kg (2.2 lbs) white flour
20 gm (little less than 1 ounce), or about 4 tsp) yeast
10 gm (little less than 1/2 an ounce, or about 2 tsp) puratos (or gluten)
600 mL (2 1/3 cup) water
20 gm (little less than 1 ounce, or about 4 tsp) salt
450 (1 lb) gm white chocolate chips

Directions:

Mix together yeast, water, gluten, and flour.

Add salt. Mix. Add white chocolate chips. Mix.

Cut dough into 4 loaf-sized portions and roll lightly to resemble a french loaf (not a baguette). Let sit 20 minutes.

Bake at 225 Celsius for 2 minutes on wax sheet and flat tray.

Featherstone Estates 2007 Gemstone

We tried this wine on the weekend. I don't remember it being that good, but it was the 6th (of 7) vineyards we hit, and we'd already been drinking for 6+ hours when we got there.

This wine has a ton of body and a deep plum colour unlike anything I have seen out of Ontario. It's a blend of Baco Noir and Cabernet Franc and captured a gold medal at the 2008 Ontario wine awards.

We only bought 2 bottles of it...I think I am going to have to order more as it was a mere $13.95 Cdn (that's about $2 US).

http://www.featherstonewinery.ca/

Dripit

Dripit.org is a little group of folks from triiibes that wanted to make a difference. Some interesting articles, and content changes fortnightly (that's every to weeks for us people that don't speak proper).

Each main story ends with actions YOU can take to effect change:
Drip = small actions
Trickle = medium actions
Flood = harder actions

They are always looking for contributors (they were desperate enough to take contributions from me even!), so take a look, and then Drip, Trickle, Flood!

Seth's New School

Seth Godin is offering a new type of schooling for those that dare to make a difference. Do you dare? Could you? Would you?

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/12/if-you-could-ch.html

Would you install apaving stone driveway today?

Take a look at the photo in my previous post. We've got close to 8" (20cm) of snow in the last 36 hours. As I am leaving my subdivision today, I see an interlok (interlock) paving stone company clearing a driveway to install paving stones.

Besides the fact that there is 3-4" (7.5-10cm) of frost in the ground, does this instill confidence in you? I wouldn't want to see what the driveway looks like in the spring- it is not going to be pretty.

Nature Rules

It's beautiful here this morning...

What's In a Name?

I hate this. I finally get off my butt and decide that this blog (I've started a couple others) will be the one. The one I will write in regularly. And then...I can't find a name that isn't taken. Like when you have a really great company name and some soulless corporate domain squatter has already take it.

I hate that too.

Welcome to the blog.