Muchacho Polaco

It is starting to heat up, but it’s still nice in the evenings. Such a beautiful sunset.

I made two no-knead firey cheese breads today, one of which had a Mennonite cheese with chiltepin, and the other I used a cheese from Chiapas and added about 2 ounces of chiltepin. Both were spectacular, but the loaf where I added the chiltepin separately was much spicier and preferred by all. It was also the cheaper loaf because cheese with chiltepin is much more expensive to buy. This will be ny showcase bread.

We were invited over to Asael and Lupita’s house for dinner this evening. We brought Sequence. Good times.

Last Saturday we went over to Orlando and Anna’s house and had some fun making raviolis. It’s been awhile since we’ve done this and I think it’s in part because it’s a lot of work. I was hungry when we arrived, but it would take another 3 hours before we’d be able to sit down to eat.

Even so they turned out great and it was a fun thing to do. Perhaps in another year or two we can do it again.

We tried our first date from the date jar last night. Dinner in the reverse order. So we began with dessert and moved our way forward to dinner.

I made this loaf of bread yesterday experimenting with chiltepin. It turned out to be pretty spectacular and my best yet.

I recently purchased some thermometers, one for the oven and one for the inside of the bread that has helped a lot in determining how long to bake. I discovered that the maximum temperature on my oven which states 230° C actually only reaches a maximum of 200 degrees C. For this reason, my prior loaves were not adequately baked given my assumption that they were cooking at a temperature much higher than they were in reality.

I also found scoring the loaf with olive oil on the blade made for a much finer cut. The end result yields a loaf that looks much cleaner.

Also, before putting the loaf in the Dutch oven, I sprayed it generously with water before putting the lid on. This in turn led to turn in the crust a much darker golden brown that I’ve ever been able to do previously.

The loaf costs about 10 pesos to make (roughly .50 cents).

A week ago we found this cute little pup on our way home. He was running with another dog that looked to have a bad leg. We chased them down and I was able to catch one of them. He was a bit resistant. But eventually we got him home thanks to the help of a neighbor.

He was so cute, an exact replica of Scout. Sadly, Scout wasn’t much interested in any new edition to the pack.

We had a bit of pressure to find a home for him before our departure. Fortunately, we found a place a day prior.

Given that he was with us nearly a week, we had to come up with a name. So we went with Moka. He will be missed.

Guanajuato is such a neat city. We had a great trip. We want to return soon

Began the day with breakfast at a small French bistro with a great view. The food was spectacular.

Spent the rest of the day wandering around town and visiting various museums.

Yun bought a bag of alfalfa and lime juice for 13 pesos. Not too bad