Wednesday, November 4th

Dear God,

Thank you for having us invent Monkey Bread.

Fondly,

Maryn Stephanie Silverberg

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We had a super busy day today! We made Hot Cross Buns which I personally think are Hot Cross Lame and only helped me to remember the song we learned on the recorder all those years ago.

With the left over dough from the Hot Cross Buns, we were allowed to make whatever we wanted... Most people opted for cinnamon rolls. I opted for Monkey Bread. Now let me break this down for you... The dough is cut into small pieces, drenched in butter then rolled in a cinnamon / sugar mixture and put into a loaf pan and baked. What you get in the end is this crusty on top, gooey on the bottom, warm and sweet in the center dessert type bread sent straight from Heaven. I kid you not. I mean. Its almost like an apple fritter from Patterson's in Cleveland, but in loaf form. Utopia.

As I told you yesterday, we were give the option of using our sourdough starter to make bread, so I did....

You know I don't normally brag on here, which is why I am going to take the time to do so now... Chef said, as I presented her my sourdough loaves, that they are "cover of a magazine worthy." BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYA!!!!!

I immediately sliced one up for my classmates and saved the other for Julie as I have been promising her sourdough from the second I started school. She was also given the rest of the monkey bread as I could show no will power around it. I may or may not have insinuated to Chef that she needed to hurry up and grade me so I could dive into the bread.

We also made two other doughs today that are fermenting overnight. We are making what is called a bread plaque and today had to turn in a design for ours. I have to admit that I don't really know the point of the plaques is (we don't even eat it), but we had to create some sort of 3-D scene to construct out of dough, which we will be constructing all day tomorrow. So I drew a beach scene with an umbrella, some crabs, waves, a setting sun and a boardwalk. And then I made one that looks like an open book with Once Upon a Time written on the left and a castle with a drawbridge and a moat on the right. And then I made a bar scene fit with a bar, stools, drinks, and Christmas lights.

Needless to say, it was a unanimous vote for me to do the bar scene... Ill let you know how that one turns out...

In the meantime, I'm off to do sit-ups to try and make myself feel less guilty about the Monkey Bread...