Food Science Day = Day with Graham!

What a fun day we have had! But...I definitely know that I'm not as young as I used to be! I had been wanting, for some time, to have a day of bread making, so Graham could see how yeast works...and today became that day. He came over around 9:30am and we got underway. We first watched a short movie clip that I found on YouTube about what yeast likes to eat. Then we got underway with making our bread. In the "waiting times" we did lots of other things. The hit of the day was mixing yeast, water and sugar and putting it in a soda pop bottle and then covering the top with a balloon. What fun he had watching the balloon inflate due to the carbon dioxide gas. During one of the breaks he ran home to check out the deer that his daddy had shot this morning. Then he hustled back to our house to finish the next step in the bread-making process. He kneaded the dough, watched the dough rise, punched down the dough, shaped the loaves, etc. it was definitely a hands-on science project! And, he found out that it takes a looooong time to finally get a loaf or two of bread! While the loaves cooled, Woody, Graham, and I went on a walk...they picked up aluminum cans to recycle, I took pictures, Graham crowed at the rooster, maaaaaaaaaed at the goats, and skipped along (most of the time ahead of us!). When we got home, we sampled one of the loaves (ours) and then he headed home with his whole loaf so he could share it with his family for their supper. He left with the promise that he could come back to have a bath at our house this evening (if he got permission from Mom and Dad)! That is where he happily is at the moment. He chose the pictures for tonight's collage and helped arrange them.

When Graham headed to his house for supper, I got back to making our soup of the day: Cream of Chicken Florentine...very good! Woody went to the library this morning, has watched a DVD, read, watched football, gave our front door its second coat of paint, and made Cranapple Crisp for our lunch dessert. Busy day for all of us! By the way, Graham and I made Pilgrims' Bread. It has corn meal, whole wheat, rye, and white flours in it. It is a good hearty loaf...appropriately named for this time of the year!