i knead left-handed

on our vacation, teresa gifted me with her tassajara bread book (just like the picture!), and i'm honored to have it. the author, ed brown, puts forth that bread "makes itself, by your kindness, with your help, with imagination streaming through you, with dough under hand, you are breadmaking itself, which is why breadmaking is so fulfilling and rewarding." i really like that attitude.

he also goes through step by step with pen and ink illustrations of the steps involved in mixing the ingredients, kneading the dough, forming the loaves. and according to him, when turning the dough while kneading it, "clockwise is usually easier for right-handed persons." he later instructs when preparing the loaves, "knead the dough with your right hand. Turn and fold it with your left hand." it's interesting to me that i've always always done it the other way around.

that is all. oh yes, and i'm going back to baking bread now that jake is back to ohio for the school year. it gives me something to do with my time.