Tickseed sunflower
I call September that yellow-flower time of year. As soon as September arrives, yellow flowers appear all along the roadsides here in the Blue Ridge foothills.
And there’s another thing that arrives in September — bread season. The kitchen, at last, is cool enough to want to use the oven. My first loaf of the season was barley bread. It’s about ten parts barley flour to one part gluten flour, plus salt, a teaspoon of yeast, and water. As long as you add gluten flour to the barley and keep the dough warm, it will rise, even though barley flour is a little harder to work with than wheat. I grind my own barley flour from organic hulled barley. You can get the barley — and grain grinders! — on Amazon. My grinder, though, is a classic Champion juicer with a mill attachment.
Barley bread with fixin’s
Lovely David. We have had the first tinge of Autumn here the last few days, those subtle signs that the seasons are changing.
Hi Chenda: And now Halloween is right around the corner… 🙂
Yes and we have bonfire night on the 5th November…there’s got to be some political joke there 😉
Hi David, beautiful full almost live photo of Fall. Here in the West we are still suffering/surviving the heat from our good “ole” Sun.
Migrant birds are flocking to our feeders, so that is enjoyable. We sit out in back in the morning, because the afternoon Sun is just too much.
I hope whatever “Front” is heading your way doesn’t damage any part of The Abbey
Bread looks like turned out good. Food on the plate looks very good too. Enjoy.
Chenda: I’m not familiar with bonfire night. Is it a surviving pagan observance? Henry, the weather in California just gets crazier, doesn’t it? Jo, thank you. It’s hard to go wrong with pintos and cabbage, isn’t it?
Hi David it’s also known as Guy Fawkes night, celebrating the foiling of the gunpowder plot and the attempt to blow up parliament in 1605. It’s celebrated with firework displays and effigies of Guy Fawkes burnt on bonfires. It’s great fun 🙂