Phaedra's 2025 Journey

[Phaedra]

Thank you for sharing your journey with us Phaedra. It is such a a pleasure to read your posts, and to see your beautiful creations. You are such an inspiration!

Great that you like, and it's also my pleasure to have friends here to share my journey.

 

[Phaedra]

Cleaning and trimming and filling containers~
Kwern is a very reliable partner to clean and remove weeds from such a paved ground. DH takes care of the basic cleaning, and I take care of the planting.

Time for a hair-cut!

Okay, 65% ready for re-opening on March 7 - And there will be a pop-up event tomorrow for introducing spring drinks. I am appreciated that I sanded and re-painted the tables. For the black pots, I planted mainly two bulbs.

Narcissus 'Lemon Shake' and Tulips 'Novi Sun' - so we will have a warm yellow tone for late spring.

I mixed all 5 sourdough starters into one yesterday, and renamed it 'Nichi Star'. As I am not running a bakery, maintaining 5 different starters isn't that convincing to me.

Before going to bed last night, I mixed the discarded starters, water, and bread flour to make Levain. It looks very nice after overnight fermentation.

So, I made a batch of sourdough bread - multi-whole grain, cheddar cheese, and pulp (mainly purple cabbage, apple, and pear)

After 6-hour fermentation, the dough has a charming color presentation. The bulk fermentation will keep going for another 4-5 hours. The dough will be divided and shaped then and enter overnight cold fermentation in the fridge. Long waiting, but in fact pretty stress-free - the baking will be done tomorrow morning around 8am.

Joy of the day - Amaryllis 'Picotee'