Khachapuri (Georgian Cheese Bread) from a King Arthur Baking recipe. 🍞
The next stop in my March Around the World is in Greece as I watch the 2018 film PITY directed by Babis Makridis on MUBI. 🎥 🇬🇷
Fresh sourdough loaf cooling.
Today my March Around the World film is from Vietnam with the 2019 film THE TREE HOUSE directed by Truong Minh Quy on MUBI. 🎥 🇻🇳
Made some apple cake for Pi Day.
My next March Around the World film is from France, directed by Nelly Kaplan in 1969 – A VERY CURIOUS GIRL on The Criterion Channel. 🎥🇫🇷
Continuing to March Around the World by stopping in Ireland to watch the 2020 film TO THE MOON directed by Tadhg O’Sullivan as part of Montréal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma’s Nuit Blanche celebration. 🎥🇮🇪🌕
Zojirushi Bread Machine
One of the most useful things I have is my Zojirushi Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker. I’ve had it for more than a year now and I use it a few times a week. I still make sourdough bread and I knead the dough in the bread machine which saves a lot of time.
When I’m pressed for time I can make a loaf of bread in the machine in a few hours without having to do much after everything gets put into the machine. It’s also great for making pasta dough or any other stuff that needs to be kneaded. Using the recipes from King Arthur Baking has made a big difference and I even occasionally make some tomato soup using the “Jam” setting on the bread machine.
It’s large enough to make a full-sized 2 pound loaf of bread. Following the guidance of King Arthur Baking, when I make bread in the machine I take the dough out just before the final rise and remove the paddles, and form the loaf before putting it back into the machine. This reduces the dents in the bread the paddles will cause, and it also makes the bread slip more easily out of the bucket when the bread finishes baking.
Lately, my favourite bread machine bread is the Back-of-the-Bag Oatmeal Bread and my other regular recipe is the Bread Machine Bread - Easy As Can Be recipe. One of the benefits of working from home during the pandemic is that there now is always fresh, homemade bread in the house. It’s great to be able to get up in the morning and put the ingredients into the machine and then have a fresh loaf of bread ready at lunchtime.
Watching DEATH OF A LADIES’ MAN directed by Matt Bissonnette because of Leonard Cohen music, Gabriel Byrne, and a bunch of Québécois actors. 🎥
Sipping a delicious Double Orange Ale from Unfiltered and thinking that my last day at the school before everything changed was exactly a year ago.
Watching the sublime and beautiful THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL yet again. 🎥
Watching a film from Japan in my March Around The World with Naomi Kawase’s 2020 film TRUE MOTHERS. 🎥 🇯🇵
Watching a 1953 film from Spain for my next stop in my March Around World – SEGUNDO LÓPEZ, URBAN ADVENTURER directed by Ana Mariscal thanks to the Instituto Cervantes. 🎥 🇪🇸
Film #12 in my March Around the World is from Poland – the 2019 film CORPUS CHRISTI directed by Jan Komasa on the Criterion Channel. 🎥 🇵🇱
Watching film #11 in my March Around the World with a 2020 film from Georgia – BEGINNING directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili on MUBI. 🎥🇬🇪
For those in the US and Canada, Mark Cousins’ WOMEN MAKE FILM is on The Criterion Channel along with a great selection of films directed by women.
Today in March Around the World I’m watching a film from Armenia from 2006 – THE LIGHTHOUSE directed by Mariya Saakyan on MUBI. 🎥🇦🇲
Watching a Hitchcock that I haven’t seen in my March Around the World with his UK film –THE 39 STEPS from 1935 on TCM. 🎥 🇬🇧
Made some spicy Mafé tempeh for supper along with some pita bread and rice.
Film #8 in my March Around the World is a 2006 film from Chad – DRY SEASON directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on The Criterion Channel. 🎥 🇹🇩
Watching a film from Mexico set in Newfoundland as stop #7 in March Around The World with Yulene Olaizola’s 2012 film FOGO on MUBI. 🎥 🇲🇽
Watching a film from Morocco as #6 in my March Around the World – ABOUT SOME MEANINGLESS EVENTS from 1974 directed by Mostafa Derkaoui on MUBI. 🎥 🇲🇦
Blue sky reflected in a cup of coffee.
March Around the World film #5 is the Norwegian film THE WAYWARD GIRL directed by Edith Carlmar from 1959 on MUBI. 🎥 🇳🇴
Continuing my March Around the World with the Chinese film 24 CITY from 2007 directed by Jia Zhangke 🎥