u/Kamimitsu

After being inspired by u/NihilisticHobbit's take on the KAF Classic Sandwich Loaf, I decided to try it out and riff on it a bit.

It's basically the same recipe from KAF but with two small twists. I continued my trend of substituting the salt with miso (my miso is 12% salt, so that's 66g of miso paste) and I added 1.5 tablespoons of Za'atar spice mix (since I had it laying around and wanted some herbs). I used the proofing mode on my oven at 30C instead of just proofing on the countertop, so it took less time than the recipe called for: 1 hour for bulk and 30 mins for the final proof.

It came out nicely with a fantastic soft and silky texture, but it was a bit big for my loaf tin and overflowed the edges pretty seriously. I'll either need to use a deeper shokupan tin, or perhaps trim the recipe by 15-20%. I'll decide that next time.

And of course, when you make sandwich bread, you gotta make some sammiches.

Happy baking out there!

I got into the hobby a year ago, and have quickly amassed a bunch of stuff. I'm a sucker when I see a good price on Yahoo Auction or Mercari and the condition seems pretty good (I don't think anything pictured was over 10,000 yen ($65 USD) and most of the lenses were actually around 5000 yen ($32 USD). I hadn't really done a full inventory yet and carefully checked the lenses for dust, mold, sticky blades, etc. So I decided to do that today, as well as labelling any lenses whose designations are under the lens cap. Needless to say, I was kinda suprised about how much stuff I have. Figured I'd share it with the sub.

We often give the advice that, in general, more polishing yields cleaner and more subtle sake, but this guy bucks that convention completely. A junmai muroka nama genshu that is only polished 10% (it's called 90 because 90% of the rice grain is used).

It was fantastic. Light and refreshing. The aroma is unsurprisingly rice forward, not unlike a steaming bowl straight from the pot. The flavor is mild, but comes on quickly with fruit and a bit of sourness. It lingers for just a second then finishes very clean and crisp. It's marketed as a summer drink, and at 13% alcohol we all commented that it'd be a perfect bottle for a picnic. It went equally well alone or paired with food.

I recently switched launchers on my phone and reloaded the Yahoo weather widget... and it's different from before. I can't figure out what the dotted line means. My best guess is it's historical data of some kind. Any ideas?

I've had a wild hair for a week or so, thinking I wanted to do brownies or blondies. I settled on blondies with Black Thunder bits in them. Farking tasty, if slightly overbaked. My wife said they're perfect for her, but I usually like them a bit gooey-er, so I think I'll play around with less flour (and/or bread flour) next time. I'm still on my "sub miso for salt" kick, which I did with these as well.

Recipe/Process (adapted from Sally's Baking Addiction)

Ingredients:

• 150g AP flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 118g melted butter
• 2 tsp koji miso
• 150g brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 tsp vanilla ex
• 135g Black Thunder (chopped)

1. Whisk dry ingredients (flour and baking powder) in a large bowl
2. Mix wet ingredients (butter, sugar, miso, vanilla, egg) in a separate bowl
3. Add the wet to the dry and mix.
4. Fold in the candy bars or other mix-ins
5. Line a 18cm x 18cm square pan with parchment paper
6. Fill the pan and smooth the top
7. Preheat oven to 180C
8. Bake for 35m (will probably lower this by 3-5 mins next time)
9. Cool, in pan, for 1 hour
10. Slice and enjoy

I bought some new leatherette a few months ago and I finally got around to putting it on. It's only my second time installing leatherette. I didn't do a particularly clean job previously on my Pentax MX, but this went a little better on the Pentax ME-Super. Thankfully, the awesome gent at Aki-Asahi sent me an extra set (in dark brown) with a note "for practice", so if I royally screwed it up I had a backup. But I think I did OK. I guess I'll hold on to the extra in case I tire of this one or get it dirtied up.

We're looking fresh and snazzy for some summertime shooting!

I started with an MX, and after kinda learning the basics on that (about 5 or 6 rolls), I moved on to a Pentax ME-super (mostly for aperture priority, and so I could shoot a bit faster... my wife complained about how long it took me to get a shot with the MX). I plan to go with a two camera setup in the future. MX for B&W and ME-Super for color.

I'm currently trying to learn to more about depth of field, finding a good 'subject' for the center of the shot, and shooting wide-open (or nearly so)... which means I screw up focusing a bit since the error margin is razor thin.

Anyway, the pics above are a mix of lenses. The first few (cherry blossoms) are Fuji 400, shot with an SMC 55mm f1.8 and a Pentax-M Macro 50mm f4. The zoo shots are Fuji 200, with a Pentax 80-200mm Zoom. The museum diorama shots are Fuji 200, with a Pentax-M 50mm f1.7

Flowers really seem like a cheat to interesting pictures. I coulda posted like 10 more, but I think those were the best (I don't have much of an eye for composition, to be honest). None of the pics are cropped or edited in any way- just straight from the labs scans.