Amish White Bread

So reika and I are trying out this blog for a couple reasons.

First, we want to keep track of our time spent here in Columbus. It's a new thing for us both to be around each other, and we want to share that with our friends and family.
Second, Columbus has some great things going on, and we want to invest in the community here, and to get ideas and give ideas to those we live around.
We hope you enjoy reading our thoughts and ideas. We enjoy sharing.
Especially Reika, considering her interesting post on silverfish.
Weird.

Here's a basic recipe I pulled from allrecipes.com for a white bread. Cheap, quick, and makes two good size loaves, so it fits my criteria.

2C warm water
2/3C sugar
1 1/2 T yeast
1 1/2 t salt
1/4C veggie oil
6-7C flour

dissolve the sugar in the warm water by stirring, then add yeast and let proof.
mix the salt and oil into yeast mix.
flour in one cup at a time, then knead, oil up a bowl and let rise for around an hour.
punch it down and cut it in two, then knead again and put in oiled pans.
let it rise again for a half hour, then bake it at 350 for about a half hour.

real simple, and if it comes out too sweet, you can cut back on the sugar or add some more salt.
T - tablespoon
t - teaspoon

This bread is great for sandwiches and french toast. Hope you enjoy it. Google amish white bread for the allrecipes.com base.
Next recipe coming up is a pumpkin bread that I stole from my aunt's bed and breakfast cookbook. It's pretty much amazing.

Off to meet reika at the north market.

Rocktober.

It was ten.ten.ten today on a gorgeous fall Sunday, which felt more like a summer day. Turns out it was too hot for floral tights but I wore them anyway, while a lady in church literally leaned over and felt my knee and asked if I had floral tattoos on my legs.

Ten days of October goodness have already flown by yet there is so much more to look forward to!

We’ve started the month off with a gorgeous bride and groom (Jill and Austin), an amazing time spent with three of my best friends who camped out in my shoebox of an apartment, flew to Canada to visit dad and grama Oda, boyfriend and I celebrated at Barcelona on the patio for Arthur’s new job, and we enjoyed some massive Italian hot dogs with bad greasy fries at the Italian festival with some Big Band music.

So here’s what we have to look forward to…carving pumpkins with my bumpkins, of course, Hallow Weekend at Cedar Point with Arthur and sister plus husband, a visit from mama, and I’m always thrilled for fall hats and scarves.

I love you, October.

What I wish for this silver fish...

I didn’t know that I could hate anything more than a spider until I saw the silver fish.

When I walked into my bedroom I saw this monster scurrying on my wall! What to do, what to do?! This giant seemed to be taking over my wall with its hideous long legs!
I couldn’t kill it with my shoe with all that goo.

Into my bathroom I ran and out with my shower spray I went as I thoroughly hosed it down my wall until I lost him. I lost him! Now this creepy crawler is either dead or alive in my apartment somewhere, and now I can’t sleep.

disturbed,

reika

OhioLoveYou

It’s been almost four months since I made the big move to Columbus, Oh, and now I can say its home. I have my own address; I’m paying my own bills, and I feel grown up, kind of. Between then and now, I’ve lost my tank of a car in a crash, moved into a cute studio, found a job at Jenis, and had appendicitis exactly two weeks after Arthur had it. It was strange.

Geographically, I’m much closer to Arthur than I have been for the past couple of years, and I will say that it’s been quite rewarding. No longer will I have to drive four hours to see him. Now, I can enjoy the five minute bike ride to his door step.

We’ve been playing a lot of tennis together, meeting new people, riding bikes, volunteering at different events, going to church, cooking, and keeping ourselves busy. It’s been a good time. There’s actually a lot of stuff to do here in this city. There’s good music, live story telling, rock climbing parks, beautiful biking trails, good food, and amazing ice cream, which I get to make people happy with everyday.

Looking for a job here has been another story. I spent three months in Kenya being a social work intern at a hospital, and it was one amazing last semester at Asbury. Unfortunately, nobody here seems to care about the experience I had abroad when it comes to finding a job in social work. It doesn’t seem to mean anything unless you’re a licensed social worker. I also don’t want to be a case worker so I’m working at Jenis Splendid Ice Creams at the North Market, which I’ve been enjoying for now. Even though I don’t plan to make it my career, I’m convinced that it’s best at being the finest ice cream in the world.

These recent transition periods of spending three months in Kenya to graduating from college and then finally being closer to Arthur have been both exciting and challenging for me, but so worth it. So while my dream job is still hanging up in the air some where waiting for me to catch on to it, I’ll be looking for a way to aspire it here in Columbus, Ohio.

Labor Day Pictures

Some photos from our labor day picnic with the family . . .