I ran out of wheat berries this morning.  My husband has been hounding me to make bread so I am in the process of making 18 loaves ( I know, I'm a very all or nothing kind of gal).  We have been bread-less for the past couple of weeks at least if not longer.  So 6 loaves are in the freezer in dough form so I can just whip a loaf into the oven whenever I need to.  The other 12 are in a five gallon pail rising for two hours while I find a way to squeeze this very non-sqoozable bucket into an already too small fridge.  This is starting to sound like a Lucy and Ethel project.  Where oh where is my Gina?  It has already oozed all over the counter once.

Thank goodness I wiped it off good first since there are a myriad projects that occur there, usually involving insects, toads, or a science experiment involving a scalpel.  My kids are really gross, uh creative.  Yeah, creative!  Eww!

Anyway I set out on a journey to find wheat again.  I am still in search of the perfect loaf.  I like hard white wheat but can't find it locally. (If anyone knows where I can buy it in Wisconsin E-mail me!)
We have been purchasing hard red spring wheat from Schoch Farms.  It is delicious and nutty but alone seems to be a bit dense for my taste.  It is very high in protein and very reasonably priced so we usually stick with them.  I guess I quit searching for now but I did find some interesting information along the way: Wheat Council and Wiki.  The things they do to store-bought wheat are really insane.

Okay, I definitely have to quit rambling on cause Daniel (6) just asked for the kitchen sponge and told his sister he had to clean the dough off the couch so mom doesn't get mad.  I see where he got it!  Apparently 12 loaves don't fit in a 5 gallons pail.  Oops.

Maybe we could just go back to disecting something.