Bible Study and more bread making

good frosty morning from my neck of the tundra!!!        hahaha        it was a nice cool 3 degrees this morning!!!           but, right now, it's a toasty 5 degrees.         I am not ashamed to admit that I am hooked on the luxury of heat.         if the power went off on a morning like this morning, it would be difficult to deal with.         so while I'm in luxury this morning, my heart breaks for the ones who are flooded, snow covered and without electricity.          I pray that God makes a way for all of them.        it's bad enough when it's just cold, but when people have been flooded and piled up with snow and now the bitter cold, it's like 3 strikes against them.        so when I find myself complaining, I'll start praying for those folks.     ------------------------

let's do our "giggle for the day": 

What do you call a pile of cats?

A meow-ntain.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

what can I say, the cold and snow is getting to me.  hahaha

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let's go to the kitchen for a "2 minutes in the kitchen with me".            snow days are great for baking bread.         if you don't believe me, try it for yourself.         this morning I used a new recipe for me.      I had been wanting to try the antique white bread recipe, but I just never did.        but since eggs have gotten to be like chunks of gold, I decided this morning was the morning to try it.        I wish I had gotten a pic of the dough ball, but I didn't.        while I was getting the ingredients together, I did change the recipe a little bit.         I put some whole wheat flour in my dough and I put some vital wheat gluten and a little more yeast than the recipe calls for.        it works for me.       hahahaha         recipes are just a starting place for ones own creativity.       hahaha        you heard it here first.     

so after about 25 minutes, I took the dough ball out and weighed it in grams and then I divided that number 16.        I tried it with 20 first, but the buns would be too small.         so dividing the overall weight by 16 will give me good sized buns.

I used the same trays for these that I used yesterday to freeze my cornbread swirls.          all I could get in them was 4, but as it turned out, that was perfect.         I can't wait bake some and see how big they get and what they taste like.

this is just a closeup of some of the balls.         you can see that they are all very uniform in size.         so when I put these in my 4 inch muffin top pans, if they rise well, they only reach 4 inches across.      they will be the perfect size for the egg, cheese and sausage patties that I make for my husbands breakfast.

this is all 16 of them ready to go in the freezer to flash freeze and then I'll put them in a freezer ziplock bag and they'll be great.         I need to another batch of these made this afternoon.        I'll either make these or get a new batch of sourdough mini loaves started.       I'll do that closer to be time so the dough will ferment overnight and then divvy out the dough and out in the mini loaf pans in the morning.      anyway, winter snowy days are good for making or baking bread.       anyway, I hope you are inspired to make and or bake some bread.    

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I guess that's about all we have today.         I pray that we all have a great day today and that we keep seeking after the heart of God in all that we do.         I pray that we see the situations around us thru the eyes of God.         I pray that we won't fall for the lies and trash that the enemy throws at us.       I pray that we strive to do the right things even when so called friends may be telling us not to trust God.        I pray that we seek new friends instead of hanging on to the ones that are dragging us down.       I pray that we see reality around us instead of the indoctrination that is thrown at us from every direction.      hugs and love, patty