Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

This Week's Bread: Yeast Rolls (from Threagill's)

Oh, I shouldn't have fretted. These are GOOD. Still a little dryer than I'd prefer, but not nearly as much as the Luby's one and once you've melted a pat of butter on them, they're great. Still trying to find one where the bread is moister without butter, but as usual Threadgill's does not dissapoint.

ALSO: given that I make really tiny bread rolls to fit my 15g carbs rule for bread (the recipe makes 24 regular rolls), I got a muffin pan, and THESE ARE ADORABLE.

# Yeast Rolls

Threadgill's: The Cook Book

6.0 cups flour
1.0 tbsp baking powder
1.5 tsp salt
1.0 cup sugar
1.5 tsp sugar
0.25 oz dry yeast
1.875 cups warm water
1.25 cup vegetable oil
1.0 large egg
1.0 large egg yolk

1 - Combine flour, baking powder salt, and 1/4 of the sugar in the bowl of a mixer with a dough hook and mix on low speed for 1 minute.
2 - Combine yeast and remaining sugar in a small bowl and cover with the warm water. Set aside for a few minutes until the yeast begins to look foamy on top.
3 - Whisk together 3/4 of the oil with the egg and egg yolk and add to the yeast and water
4 - Add the liquid to the dry ingredients in the mixer bowl and mix on low speed until the dry ingredients are moistened.
5 - Turn the mixer off scrape down the sides of the bowl, and then knead on medium speed for about 5 minutes, adding a little flour if necessary to form a ball of dough.
6 - When dough is smooth and elastic, add remaining oil and knead only to incorporate it into the dough ball.
7 - Remove the dough to a well-oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight until the dough has doubled in bulk.
8 - When the dough has doubled in bulk, punch it down and divide it into the designated number of rolls and place in well-oiled muffin tins.
9 - Cover loosely and allow to double in size again.
10 - During the rising time, preheat oven to 350°.
11 - Bake the rolls for 15 minutes or until crispy and golden.
12 - Cool for about 10 minutes and turn out of pans.

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The Threadgill's recipe is not looking good for this week's yeast rolls, which didn't rise at all. The recipe they give us is HUGE, making 24 regular rolls or 52 Jenn-sized rolls. Cutting it down to just 6 makes for teeny tiny measurements, and I'm fairly sure they're too small to do their magic. In fact, one of the measurements was so small, my scale just wouldn't calculate it and it kept re-zeroing itself trying to do it.

We'll see. May be having large croutons for bread this week....

Nerve pain willing, I'll finally write about the city council meeting today. But first, sleep.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park. ::music plays::

Smokey skies....

(Why yes, my neck isn't bothering me allowing me to type today, why do you ask?)

That bat came back. This time it's in the car!

One of the wierdest pushbacks I got when informing people of my transition was that I shouldn't transition because "Being a woman wasn't easier." Another was "why would I give up having it easier."

It's funny, but, at the time, I told them "I'm not doing it because it's easier." But looking back at it, it's funny how them telling me this made the fact that life as a woman is rough was something to expect.

Sure, they told me this as a reason to not transition, but in the end, all they did was prepare me for the task ahead of me.

320x200x256 is the golden screen and none but the blessed may tresspass upon it.

I've seen a few posts from friends talking about how it's getting harder and harder to relate to the younger generations. I worry about that myself a lot.

I don't think I've lost touch with younger generations, but the divide is there. But I do make the effort to keep in touch. Not by watching the latest shows, or listening to the latest music (although I tend to do the music thing), but by just talking and listening. And learning, specifically.

In becoming a "trans elder," something I'm trying hard to do is to allow myself to listen and learn from the younger folk. I don't want to end up like the folks in Boulton and Park who, when faced with an 18 year old in 1992, gave advice that was fine for a transwoman living in 1972.

It's not that I want to be a forty year old teenager walking around and saying "How do you do, fellow kids?" I just don't want to be the stuffy person giving bad advice to our younger folk who actually know better than me, learn from our younger folks, and be aware of the world around me as it is, and not as I remember. I may have the wisdom but they're living in the now, which is much different.

Also, I want to be the 2050s version of that awesome 1980s grandma who listened to death metal and genuinely enjoyed it.

Looks like we're going to get the worst of the smoke at 3 to 4AM. Just as I go to bed. We definitately had a smoke sunset, and the moon is blood red. I was smelling smoke when I left the girls' house this evening....

The other day I mentioned that I was considering a meal subscription service. I mentioned specifically Hello Fresh, cause it was the one I had on the top of my head. Someone on my Mastodon feed came up and mentioned they were seemingly anti-union and created a lot of waste.

That's good information, for sure, and I plan to consider it. But something I'm noticing online where every choice comes with it's share of shaming. While the post I got on Hello Fresh wasn't really shaming, many of the others are, ranging from being a terrible person for making choice A or how choice B is destroying the planet.

Here's the thing: Everything is terrible. Everything is bad. Everything has secrets. Everything has issues. It's how we navigate that terribleness that matters.

I want to buy a pickup as my next vehicle. There's a lot of anger towards that depending on who you talk to. But the navigation is that I genuinely use it, not just as a daily driver, but a truck.

It's not a status symbol, it's not a gas guzzler (in fact, I'm planning the next pickup to be an EV), it's genuinely going to be my daily driver, and it's going to be put to work whenever there's work to be done. Just like when I had Cheyenne.

There will never be a perfect corporation or service. It's the navigation of the choices that you have in front of you that matter.