Baby I’m-A-Want You

I was going to post this yesterday and then I got wrapped up in the last 3 episodes of Gilmore Girls, like, EVER and then it was 10:30 so I went to bed.

I only really got into Gilmore Girls a couple of years ago and it became one of those guilty pleasures that really pays off when you have a sick day and there are 22 episodes on various channels and you haven’t seen any of them because you just started watching, thereby excusing you from Dr. Phil duty, hoorah!

This past year has been pretty excruciating, writing-wise, on the Gilmore Girls. A lot of the snap and vigor disappeared and the plot turned sour. The conversations just went on too long. I realized at some point this year that I had Gilmore Girls on and was also emailing someone and was also reading two different blogs, all at the same time.

But I had several episodes saved on the MythTV box and I knew the series was ending so I cued up the first episode and it wasn’t great but then I thought – well, I have to watch the finale so I watched the next one but it wasn’t the finale at all, there was one last episode to watch and I thought about just leaving it till today but by then I had more time invested in it than not so I stayed up and watched as Rory dumped Logan and got a plum job after graduation and Luke and Lorelei got back together finally hallelujah can we all go do something else now.

Before we went to Ontario, SA’s dad said is there anything you want to do while you’re in Ontario and I said yes I would like to eat real poutine because I have heard that on the west coast the poutine is not real. So he said OK I will find poutine for you and he went to a foodie website called chowhound and posted a plea for poutine recommendations in the Ottawa area and someone suggested the Elgin Street Diner so that’s where we went. Man, it was delicious. I am ashamed to admit that I didn’t actually eat “real” poutine after all that because I was swayed by the “Chili Poutine” on the menu and garsh it was tasty. But SA and his mom both had real poutine and they said it was delicious.

I was at Chowhound just poking around in the threads and I came across one about favourite recipes. And within this thread I found a link to a recipe for bread. And I forwarded the link to SA and said checkitout this looks tasty. So he made some and it was. And then he made some more on the weekend, but added cheese and sundried tomatoes and OH it was. (although it was a great deal more dense with the added ingredients. Jury is out as to why; possibly too much salt in the cheese & tomatoes, which made the yeast die? Or possibly just weighted down with too much yum?) And it was so good that I decided to try making it and again, it was.

You basically mix the ingredients half-heartedly and then let it sit for 18 hours (I waited 24), then fold it over on itself and let it sit another 2 hours, then turn it upside down into a cast-iron pot for 45 minutes and walla! fantastic bread comes out of your oven.

I mean come on. You like bread, don’t you? You’re not a bread-hater?

And thanks to the bread and my own inability to finish this blog entry, now I know where to go when I need wine paired with my music. I will sleep soundly tonight.