Whole wheat makes me forgetful

Yesterday I got whole wheat flour as an after-thought to buying all purpose flour. Then I left the AP behind at the check-stand and came home with only three bags of candy instead of four. At this point any normal person would have given up and maybe done something not food related for the rest of the day, but really it was that or I was going to have to go outside and punch someone.

The puff pastry straws/sticks is a test sampler - my first time making puff pastry dough by hand. You see my mother is Chinese. (So is my dad. So am I.) My mother and her friends like to scrunch up their noses at the sight of butter, sugar, and chocolate. But they LOVE puff pastry blossoms with chocolate inside. Yes, I'm serious. This Sunday I'm tasked with making said blossoms for their weekly gathering, and I'm really sick of buying puff pastry from the store. It's never on sale, and I hate buying stuff that's not on sale. Did I mention I'm Chinese? Also, I have a deep suspicion about prepared food in freezers. Once it's frozen, it can hide a dead body. So I used one stick of butter for about 3-4 cups of flour. The sticks turned out pretty well, though a little bland because I forgot to sprinkle sugar on top. Then my mom ate about half the batch, and I ate a few more, so now we just have a handful left.

Also remembered to bring home the rack of lamb with me from the grocery store, so the oven was on for like an hour. Not wanting to waste energy, I used about a cup and a half of the whole wheat flour to make dill biscuits. But then I forgot the butter for the biscuits, and they came out fine, just not as ... buttery. The dill came from my backyard, about four short twigs. I smeared some hummus on this morning and ate them.

Lastly, because the oven is turned off the residual heat takes some time to dissipate, I started a loaf of whole wheat olive bread. Then I forgot about it. So when I woke up this morning, I fed the fish, did some dishes, watched the latest episode of glee, and then "job searched." And then I thought, that's strange, why did I leave the cookie sheet out of the oven? (I keep cookie sheets in the oven, okay? It's hard to find places to keep stuff when you keep on buying more stuff.) So here it is, over-risen whole wheat olive bread. The olives are from Trader Joe's, though really I should go with Kalamata next time.

Happy, Mike?