Today I am grateful for negative experiences.

 If you read yesterday's blog, you know that I was excited about baking a loaf of bread in my new cloche. I had the best of intensions and made the prettiest bread dough.

Photo: Bread dough

It rose to perfection.

I even used a lame tool and etched a leaf design on the top of the dough at the last rise.

Photo: Lame

The beautiful new birthday cloche was preheating in the oven while I designed the top of the bread dough.

When I took the cloche out of the oven, something was wrong.

it smelled like plastic.....and when I took the top off... there was melted plastic all over the bottom.

Photo: The plastic that was on the inside of my new cloche.

I had been playing with the new cloche all summer long but never looked into the top of the cloche where there must have been plastic packing materials.

It was the hottest, gooey mess. Larry tried to clean it up, but it was like super glue and nothing could be done to clean up the mess.

I baked the bread dough without a cloche. The crust was awful.... but the bread was delicious.

Photo: the bread

Larry threw my birthday cloche in the trash and ordered a new one, then went out to dinner.

*****

Please be happy today.

Even if things go badly.... they will always turn themselves around.

Love you beyond the moon.

Me

1 comment:

pinkeerach said...

oh that's so disappointing! at least the bread was good (even if the crust was suboptimal), and it seems you can still be grateful. big hugs. :D