A few problems, a slow night anyway.

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I ended up burning the pan I was using to warm up the grain mix... for breakfast.  I have been working with that pan, off and on, since.  I am not sure I will be able to save the pan.  I then filled it with hot sudsy and... yeah... burned it again, running it dry.  I tried a third time and... nope, but almost.  Just one of those horrible nights.  I did begin working on the grains and beans.  That, too, was a pretty awful failure.  On the good side, there was no bitterness.  On the bad side?  I soaked everything together.  That simply will not do.  The rice and quinoa cooked much, much, faster.  The black beans not so much.  I will have to cook beans separately, or cook them together but without soaking. 

To major fails just blew the game.  I didn't quit.  I did run out of steam a little more quickly.  Plus, it smells of smoke hereabouts.  I did keep working on the pan, but I don't think that will... we will see.  It is in a fresh soak after my last attack on it.

I do have more grain that was soaked.  I will try it again, only watch much more carefully.  I am telling you... even though I burned the bottom fifth of the stuff, the stuff that was salvageable was delicious.  I have an appointment or two this week.  If I can make it to them, I will definitely get more various grains.  On the list is 9-grain cracked cereal, whole grain rice, old fashioned oatmeal, and actually I need various flours... whole and unbleached white, perhaps spelt if I can find it.  I might work on a starter, and then experiment with loaves of bread and some other things, when I can get the kitchen put into some kind of order.  I thought about whole wheat berries, for sprouting.  And while it makes a decent cereal, it is a bit heavy.  I will hold off on that until I have a wheat grinder.  If sprouting, then grinding softens wheat... and sourdough softens it (makes it more easily digested and nutrient available)... what about mixing those two processes?  I haven't seen where anyone has done it, and I have looked, lightly.  Just curious, to be honest.  Though it makes my mind think about food, and... that's never a bad thing.

It is cloudy today.  Amazing, really.  Yesterday, the lowest I saw it in the morning was 70 (now... that I saw).  Being that it was almost 74 F at 3:00, my guess is this IS the low.  It was a bit warm yesterday.  I'm hoping it stays cool.  But when the sun bakes the world, it takes several days of cloud and rain to lower temps... usually.  I do enjoy having that satellite clock, with an outside/inside thermo (that works).  It's been interesting.  Often, even having a thermo on my back open porch, I still won't go out to get close enough to look.  I am curious.  But... SUN!  At least I don't actually turn to stone, blow up, burn (or... quite as quickly as vampires do in most movies).  Still... I don't like it.

Breakfast of the remaining soaked grain, a shower... maybe some music... then a nap or sleep.  Bleh.  Later or... much later.  If I'm not back in a day?  Wait longer.  Dang kids.