It Helps To Be Obsessive

It turns out I am obsessive. Someone who has worked in mental health for a long time told me that yesterday when we were discussing what is important when making life changes.

That lets everyone who isn't obsessive off the hook I guess. You can't be held responsible for your non-obsessive nature so you might as well not try to make any healthy changes.

Maybe big Pharm could make a pill to make people more obsessive. Surely one of their fashionable drugs for ADHD or some other ailment real or imagined has obsessiveness as a side effect.

Maybe we could make a bunch of money by creating a program to make normal folks more obsessive. The TOYS-R-US of life changes.

I have to figure this out now. I'm obsessed with it. For now don't just give up. Hang in there and try to stick with what you know is right.

Recipe:

Whole Wheat - Or Multigrain Bread

This recipe is easy and has worked both times I made it. The bread not heavy at all and it has no eggs and no milk so it would qualify as Vegan.

7 - 7 1/2 cups Flour You can use all Wheat or mix in some Brown rice flour or some rye flour or some raw oats.. I used 2 cups rye, 1 brown rice flour, 1 cup oats and the rest wheat.

2 3/4 cups Water between 100 and 110 degrees.

2 Tbsp Yeast

1 Tbsp Salt

1/3 cup honey or raw sugar if you want

1/4 olive oil

I bloomed the yeast in 2 cups water for a couple of minutes.

Add everything except the flour into a mixer. Add 2 cups of flour and mix well. Add the rest of the flour a little at a time - 1/2 cup or so - until the dough just comes away from the side of the mixer bowl. Switch to a kneading hook and knead on medium for 4 or 5 minutes. Oil a bowl and put the dough in and coat it with the oil in the bowl. Cover with a towel and allow it to rise in a warm place for 1 hour. Punch down and place in 2 oiled bread pans and allow to rise 30 - 45 minutes. Bake at 350 for about 35 - 40 minutes until it sounds hollow. Flip the bread out of the pans and onto a cooing rack. Go ahead and cut a nice warm slice. You earned it.


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