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Bakery Day 89: a different approach

I am not sure what I did right this morning but I had all the breads and croissants baked by 8:30 more or less. I was at the bakery at 5:00am so I am sure that helped. Also, doing a slow bulk ferment using the sourdough starter also helped me in the morning.

Once I was done my baking I immediately started on tonight’s tapas.  I had to run to the stores a few times but I would guess I spent the better part of 8 hours making six tapas. In part this is because today was all sushi.



I forgot how much I love making Japanese food and while I am no expert it makes me wish at times I did open a vegan sushi house. But I love bread too much to turn my back on it.. sandy said some months ago we should do sushi one night a week.  If the bakery were closed two days a week I would consider this. I had the idea of Sushi-Sunday... pick up only for takeaway. But who knows !?!!?

for tonight I made Gyoza (I made the wraps yesterday to let the dough rest - my only bread), cauliflower tempura, three different sushi rolls, one of which had cranberry juice pearls, and sea salted edamame. A lot of work but a lovely day for sure.

With that said, I am exhausted. I worked 30 hours between yesterday and today and that is not counting the 70 minutes I worked at home yesterday morning baking before I left for the bakery.   I have a lot to do tomorow but honestly I am not going to stress and I will sleep until 6. My body just cannot work like this day in and day out. My back hurt quite a lot today which was the first time in a week it hurt this much.

Enough complaining ... well, not really complaining, but more listing the facts ...

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and ... our new security is installed.. the cost is 60.60€ per month for three years, but after the third break in Saturday we had to do something drastic!

here is a screen shot I took just now for you to see how it looks empty :)



I feel a lot better with this one. It has two photo cameras and one video camera. Also, it has two alarm controls plus a panic button. Further, it notifies the service center immediately and will inform the police. That is very good news! Now we will see who the people are who keep breaking in.

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Sleep time, it is late for me (9:30pm). Thank you for taking the time to read today’s post! ❤️

#doeverythingwithlove
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