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<\/a><\/p>\nNote: I am a really big fan of Bobcat, and his set was a lot of fun. Apparently the early show before us featured a less enthusiastic crowd, but he seemed to think we were cool and told a lot of stories (in addition to his rehearsed standup).<\/p>\n
The next day, J left to go to a bachelorette party for the night, leaving me to get into trouble. I chose to go shopping, make food, and watch movies.<\/p>\n
Before I left to shop, I started some No-Knead Bread in the Dutch Oven<\/a>, the first thing we’ve made in the D.O. You just mix the flour\/yeast\/salt\/water and let sit for 12-24 hours for the “slow-rise”.<\/p>\n The first thing I set to work on when I got back was some potato-leek-cauliflower soup in the slow cooker. I found it here<\/a>, who found it here<\/a>:<\/p>\n Its just potatos, cauliflower, leeks, onion, carrot, broth, and some rosemary & s\/p. Chop it up, stick it in the slow-cooker for 6 hours on low. Then blend as much as you like for consistency, and you have 6 quarts of soup!<\/p>\n (You will notice a quarter glass of beer next to it, that’s home-brew styled after the “Cooper’s Sparkling” australian brew).<\/p>\n Behind my slow-cooker is the beer tree I bought J, which can both sanitize (using an attachment) and dry beer bottles.<\/p>\n Next to it is fruit for kombucha! I’ve made kombucha a few times now and am trying to get more comfortable with the process. It’s supposed to be good for you, but I just like how it tastes and makes me feel. This kombucha has been brewing 3 weeks:<\/p>\n Most other people’s kombucha is a little darker than this, but this is SF so the weather isn’t too warm and I don’t get great airflow in my kitchen, so this is probably less fermented than other 3-week kombuchas.<\/p>\n I mostly follow this recipe to brew<\/a>, using jasmine or oolong tea, and let sit on top of my fridge. Then I do a secondary fermentation in beer bottles, adding either ginger + lemon or juice + chia seeds. This time the ginger I got was kind of dry, so I did less ginger lemon than usual, and used fresh raspberries that I blended in my food processor.<\/p>\n My current kombucha bottling process is still a little annoying, but I’m getting faster at it (it’s all about planning!) I’m sure with some better bottles and brewing vessel I could make it go faster. This one involves funnels and saran wrap.<\/p>\n Now it was about time to go back to the bread I put together last night, but first I was a good boyfriend and swept the living room for the people who were going to crash here tonight:<\/p>\n (I also got our music room, afterwards I was temporarily distracted by my fretless bass, despite the air mattress)<\/p>\n Ok, enough bragging about our awesome apartment.<\/p>\n Next I had to roll the sticky gunky bread dough together into a ball, even though it had yet to really take on any sort of shape. So this really meant covering it in flour, which kept it from spilling out everywhere, giving it a sense of form.<\/p>\n Then I stuck it in the dutch oven I’d been pre-heating in the stove (although not for long enough), and let it do its thing. 45 mins later it was finished and lookin pretty good!<\/p>\n In retrospect, I should have let it rise for a little after “forming” it, and let the dutch oven cook up a bit. I also realized that my dutch oven is giant for such a small loaf of bread. But, it was easy and tasted good! Sweet.<\/p>\n During this I watched movies that I haven’t been able to motivate myself to watch. This included Gang Tapes<\/a> (which was interesting if not a little draining), then The Girl Next Door<\/a> (a disturbing yet incredibly well-made account of real-life torture – why do I do this to myself?), and then cleansed my palate with 48 Hours<\/a> (ridiculous, but fun and easy).<\/p>\n It wasn’t over though, even when I ate the soup! The next day I went to a free concert at Stern Grove<\/a> (a beautiful donated park in SF) featuring The Relatives<\/a> and Shuggie Otis<\/a>, which was awesome. I also got there right on time for the music and scored the best seats I’ve had at the venue:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n