Still Obsessed With Food. Obviously

Last night's supper. I think this is becoming a feature here at Bless Our Hearts. I see that my placement was poor when it came to the avocados and eggs. 
Presentation has never been my strong suit. 
But it sure was good. 
On the other hand...let us discuss the bread I tried to make. I mean, I did make it but there were problems. 
I've been getting a lot of recipes on social media for recipes with cottage cheese in them and the purpose of cottage cheese in food is to up the protein in them. You know how it is- every few years we're told there are certain nutrients that are truly the important ones and right now, the trendy winners are protein and fiber. 
Am I right? 
Well, I don't really worry about not getting enough protein but I thought I'd give the cottage cheese in a baked good a try and so I made up a bread dough with bread flour, yeast, ground flax seeds (fiber!), old-fashioned oatmeal, and cottage cheese. Oh, and honey. I made the dough in the food processor where I make a lot of my bread dough, especially things like pizza crusts and focaccia. 
I processed all of this until it was a good consistency and then I kneaded it by hand a few times and set it to rise. It was a lovely dough. Quite punchy and so forth. It rose nicely, I gave it a second rise. Again, good rising, and then I baked it in a Le Creuset pot which I'd sprayed with some avocado spray. I put it in a hot oven and it looked great. It rose a bit more in the heat of the oven and browned well. When it came time for me to check it for doneness, I tried to do what I always do which is to take the loaf from whatever I'm baking it in and tap the bottom. If it sounds hollow- it's done. If it doesn't, it ain't.
However. There was no easy removal of this loaf. It had stuck to the sides and bottom of this pan with a crust at least a third of an inch thick. It took a knife, a spatula, and a lot of work to get that thing out of there and I ended up putting it back in the oven on a piece of aluminum foil because it was obviously not going to do well if I put it back in the pan. 
Well, I didn't bake it long enough. That was one problem, the other problem being the extremely rough exteriors of the bread. 
However, the parts that did get baked were lovely and delicious and I am going to try this again but I will be using a different baking vessel. 

Oh well. La-di-dah. 

I ended up going to town today to meet up with Jessie and the boyos for lunch and a Costco shopping. We asked Lily if she could go on her break but that wasn't happening until 2:00 so she told us to go on without her. The boys chose Chow Time, of course, and as always, it was NOT BAD! At all. I had boiled shrimp, some hot and sour soup, a few green beans and some cabbage, a piece of baked salmon, a bite or two of chicken and the same of beef. With a little rice. 
It was perfect! 

And then on to Costco. Now y'all- I don't think I'd left Lloyd in at least three or four days so Costco was a bit of a neuro-blast for me. So much going on there. And, two very energetic boys who bounced about like Energizer Bunnies. At one point, they begged Jessie to let them sample the Liquid Death drink. Liquid Death is an energy drink and Jessie and I both said, "NO!" at the same time. They were cool with that. They were actually very good little guys and entertained me well. I tried to get them to pose in front of a Halloween decoration which was a dracula-looking guy who moved and made scary noises. 
Here's what happened. 

That just about says it all. And we need to get Levon on the stage. Immediately. He is such a natural born performer and entertainer. 
And check this out.

I don't even know what to say. He really is going to be taller than me before I know it. 

All right. Here's a picture of their Boppy when he was probably about the same age as August. I'd say ten or eleven. Or maybe even twelve. 

I believe we can safely surmise that Levon and August are direct descendants of Glen Moon. 

By the way, Glen hates that picture so don't tell him I posted it. I love it.

And so it goes and so it went today. 

Here's the last picture.

The Seminole Pumpkin vines that are taking over our universe here in Lloyd. See that tendril on the left side there? It's heading right towards a boat parked in the yard and obviously, by tomorrow the vines are going to be climbing Tom's Subaru and will also be on and in the boat. I have got to cut it back. Again. Despite its obvious inability to know when to stop growing, I am not finding many pumpkins. I think perhaps we're not getting the number of pollinators we usually do. I'm not seeing much action on the basils, either, but I keep telling myself that they're not really putting out that many blooms yet. 
The pumpkins, however, are. 
I hope I'm wrong. I really, really do. 

Meanwhile...

Love...Ms. Moon