an unexpected dunking

Yet another mini-catastrophe at our house this morning...Rhyon fell into the dog pool while he and Colin were playing outside. The dog's pool is a small baby pool, so that wouldn't be such a big deal ordinarily...but fall decided to pay a visit this week (we'll see how long it stays) and it was about 60 degrees outside when he did this...needless to say, he was not a happy camper when he he came into the house dripping wet, saying, "Cold! Cold!" He warmed up nicely in the shower.

I've been baking some, lately. I've finally learned how to make decent biscuits, thanks to Alton Brown. We've decided to start making our own pizza again, since the local pizza place closed down in the last month or two...we still don't know why, but I'd hazard a guess that their expenses went up so much recently that they decided they couldn't turn a decent profit anymore. I'm still not so great at making pizza dough...it either doesn't stretch properly, or it's too floppy and you can't slide it off the peel onto the stone in the oven. I made a batch of muffins from scratch monday, which were edible, but a little dry. I'll have to tweak that one.

Today I'm baking bread, with the help of my Kitchen Aid mixer to do the kneading. The last two batches have turned out all right, but one was too crumbly (I think it over-rose AND over-baked) and the other was too dense, but not as dry as the first (underrose, I think...the recipe I'm using makes 2 loaves so I bake one and freeze the dough for the second to bake later, and I don't think I let the frozen dough rise completely before baking it).

So we'll see how today's turns out!