Sourdough

I've been trying and trying to make sourdough bread, with limited success. I've done a few passable semi-sourdough loaves (sourdough with added yeast), but when I tried plain sourdough it would sit for days, barely rising at all. When I gave up and added a bit of yeast it rose, but it was so sour it wasn't really nice.

Then Deb sent me a little bag of sourdough starter from Yoke Mardewi. I fed it over a few days then made a loaf with some of it and some of mine (because there wasn't much of Yoke's yet). Kept it warm in the car and hooray! beautiful sourdough bread.

Possums

Louka requested a possum-feeding table, with a bridge to the paperbark tree in the park. We put a carrot there the other night.


You can see the stripe of furless skin on the underside of the possum's tail in this photo.

Fungi

With the recent bout of rainy weather, lots of fungi have sprouted up.

I especially liked this cheeky toadstool peeking out from a tree trunk.