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UPDATE! These actually turned out like bread.  Not hamburger bun quality, but edible.  More like a dinner roll.  It was promising enough that Malpal actually used a roll to make a cheese sandwich.  Still dense, but flavor was there, a little weak on the salt, but not bad.  PROGRESS!

Everyone grills on Memorial Day Weekend for whatever reason.  Burning meat on metal apparently honors those who have served in the military.  I don't get it, but I know I like to grill, and I'm determined to grill some sort of meat and eat it on bread I've made earlier in the day.

Woke up this morning with my mind set on making something edible this time around so I went for it.  Scraped by with the bear essentials to prepare my dough, and again, I sit here and write this as it rises.  I realize it would be a lot more intriguing with pictures or video, but I'm usually in no state to take or be in pictures when I'm baking.

So, like last time, I shall update with pictures of the outcome when its done, and I promise I won't wait a day to do it.  FINGERS CROSSED.

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Today, being the only day that we'll have weather even close enough to make me want to grill, we're grilling.  I figured this was my best shot at trying to make my own rolls and buns for brats and burgers.

I busted out the ingredients, and went for it all by hand, since mixers are the most expensive thing ever.

First thing I learned, was that the second I started adding flour to make the actual dough, I NEED a mixer.  That shit gets hard, fast, and it makes it real hard to mix everything in while trying to stir.  Way hard.

I also learned that kneading bread is kind of like washing the dishes or mowing the lawn to me.  I actually enjoy doing it, I just kind of zone out, and do it.  Gives me time to think.

So my first batch of dough in resting and rising, and in about 40 minutes I'm gonna roll that shit out and throw it in the oven.  Here's hoping that they'll turn out good enough that I won't have to go to the store and buy rolls, that would crush me.  Pictures and review to follow...stay tuned.

UPDATE!
The rolls turned out horrible, weird, and I had to buy rolls for dinner.  I was talking to my moms on the phone and she had mentioned not to use too much flour, which I think I did, because they were dense as all hell.  I accidentally used salted butter as well and cooked them too fast so they burned on the top and bottom.   In the end I wound up cooking these weird little dense as rocks, salty dinner roll things.  Bummer.  I shall prevail!

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So here it is.  Ultimately, it didn't wind up being what I thought it was going to be, it's just another boring blog.  I had grand visions of making a web zine with artist interviews and music and reviews and guest posts, but that wound up going by the wayside.   I realized that I'm way too lazy to keep that up to date.  It was hard enough to do with the old QuawQuaw - and that was totally meaningless.

So I'm using this now as a place to hopefully show someone a new band every once in a while, talk about food I ate, have eaten or will eat, beer I like, and the most important thing, baking.

I figured what a better way to keep this up to date than chronicling my venture into baking.  I've never baked a goddamn thing before, but I love baked goods and always have, who doesn't?  My mom and grandmother were always baking growing up, and they were really really good at it.  Since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a Jew and own a bakery, I have no idea why, but I know that those were two of my biggest aspirations.  Astronaut?  Cowboy?  Fuck Dat.  I wanted to be a Jew baker.  I suppose I got lazy at some point, because I wound up being a Web Designer, and I totally forgot about it, much like how a child forgets that he/she ever wanted to be a doctor or an astronaut.

I'll never be a Jew, and I might never own a bakery, and no one will even give a shit if I post a picture of a lumpy loaf of bread and say "Tasted like shit" - but it'll give you something to do for 5 minutes at work, it'll give me a way to track my progress, so I figure it's win-win.  At least along the way you might go "Shawn listens to really shitty music, eats shitty food, and drinks shitty beer."  Or maybe you'll say "Shawn eats shitty food and drinks shitty beer, makes shitty bread, but Sick Of It All's not so bad."

I guess we'll find out.

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