Sephahrdic Challah Bread: 5 '21

 One of my personal goals this year has been to  learn to make well-kneaded bread,

  and on the top of that list is Challah bread. 

I think I may have found the perfect challah recipe. 

It is a: Shepardic Challah.

 This Challah Recipe is a little more work than most in that it calls for several

 risings,  but it is well worth the effort. My husband wants me to make it every day.

It is a honey-egg dough  but unlike Eastern European Challah recipes,

 It is seasoned with aromatic spices,

 and

 optionally allows the use of raisins  (I left the raisins out),

 but loaded the loaf

 with caraway, anise, poppy, and sesame seeds 

- think 'everything bagel mix-.  

The recipe will make for two coiled loaves.  

I made half the recipe dough into knotted rolls

 and the coiled second into a single loaf which I froze.

(I'll report on the success or failure of baking the 2nd loaf in a later post)

Here's the link to the original recipe

that Julia Moskin published in the NY Times: 

 https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017858-sephardic-challah-with-whole-spices

Nine holes at Tupelo Bay: 4'21

It was another beautiful sunny day so we decided to paly 9 holes at Tupelo Bay Golf Center.. Bruce played really well. On the 9th hole, he drove his ball from the Tee straight into the flag pole; his ball bounced off the pin and onto the back upper shelf of the green, from which he holed it.

I was sore and stiff from yesterday's game which threw my driving 'off'' a bit. Even so, Tupelo Bay remains one of my favorites places to play bc, for a par three course, it is surprisingly technical. For one thing, there is water on almost every hole, narrow fairways, and lots of elevation change. Many of the fairways have moguls and steep slopes that make it hard to stick your ball. I lost several balls in the water, not because I didn't land them dry, but because they rolled into the water due to the slope of the fairway.

There are also a lot of bunkers. Usually, I can avoid bunkers, but the placement of the bunkers on the narrow fairways at Tupelo Bay meant that I didn't have room to play around them, but had to try to shoot over them... or in my case yesterday, I was chipping out of them.