It was time to dump the supposed gooey bread dough onto a flour covered work table, and so I did. I’m not sure if it will end up being bread, but I have certainly made a mess of the kitchen. There’s flour and wet bread dough everywhere. Ugh.

But the pile of dough is resting again –for about two hours– and then I have to decide if I am going to dump it into a loaf pan or get out the Dutch oven. I think I’ll use the Dutch oven. This is some seriously hydrated dough.

I hope it’s at least edible. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just edible. Perfect would be nice, but I may be asking for too much.

And now I need to go clean up the huge mess in the kitchen, do the dishes (again), and thaw the stew meat for dinner tonight … provided I have all the things I need to make stew. Somehow, my pantry seems to be lacking some of the basics. I screwed up when I did that unplanned big shopping trip from memory.

Maybe we’ll have shrimp and pasta tonight. I know I have shrimp, pasta, and cream of shrimp soup … and I’m bound to have some kind of veggie to go with it. Yeah, I think that’s what we’ll have. I’d hate to make a half-assed stew on top of making half-assed bread today. I can only tolerate one kitchen failure a day.