Artisan Bread

[image via artisanbreadinfive.com]
T baked a bread in the dutch oven last week. When it came out, it was not all covered in flour like I expected (see picture above), which is how I thought this artisan bread to look.

When I questioned him, he told me, "It used to be they would let bread rise in canvasses upside down, so they could flop it onto a pizza stone without the top sticking, but now it's just for looks."

You learn something new everything. I thought the flour look is nice though.

Another Thing Learned

I don't remember what we were talking about but T told me, "Imitation crab meat is made from cod."

More specifically snow cod after I looked it up. This comes as a big surprise to me because I always thought they were vegetarian. When I was a vegetarian in high school, I'm pretty sure mom made me eat it once saying it was fine. LIES!

Thanks T!

Something I Don't Know- I Learned from T

I would say I am smarter than the average person, no genius, but definitely somewhat intelligent. As my bosses would say though, I'm an accountant type of smart. This means I learn fast, have book smarts, and am very good at math. However, I do believe that I lack a lot of common knowledge.

Every time T and I actually talk, on the phone or in person, which happens about three or four times a month, somehow he always teaches me something new. It's usually a random fact pertaining to something we're talking about. I always exclaim "I didn't know that!" Which I hope he thinks is cute, or at least it must make him feel smart. I guess it could also make him think I'm dumb, but whatever. So anyway, the point is, I joked that I was going to start a segment in my blog about the things I learn from him. Yesterday he told me...

Widow is for a woman who is unmarried and whose husband is dead. Widower is for a man whose wife is dead. I never knew there was a difference between the two.