Over the last seven years I’ve talked about pretty much everything relating to our particular sexual interests. Mrs. Lion and I have both shared our adventures in male chastity, spanking, and female-led relationships. Most of the search engine arrivals on our site go to the informational pages that are referenced at the top of the page. This part, the blog, appears to have a fairly steady readership. It occurs to me that blogging would be a lot more interesting to me and perhaps to you if we broadened our coverage to our lives in general. At least that’s what I want to do.
I finally got around to baking bread. Julia Child did a program (season nine, episode 12) about making sandwich bread. It’s French white bread. I decided to try this recipe. I have baked bread before and I especially like creating artisan bread feature in the book Baking with Julia. In this book Julia Child cooks with famous bakers creating all sorts of goodies. PBS did a series that this book accompanies. Over a decade ago when I was out of work, I watch this series end-to-end and baked many of the items. I purchased a 6 quart KitchenAid mixer to do this.
One recipe that is really amazing is her sticky buns. This recipe calls for brioche dough. Whenever I attempted to make this, which is one of the heaviest and most difficult to produce, my heavy-duty KitchenAid would throw a gear. I would have to take it apart and reengage the gear inside. It was a royal pain. So, when I decided I wanted to start baking again, this was before Christmas, I ordered the 7-quart professional mixer. This one has an extremely heavy-duty motor. Shortly after receiving it, I did a batch of French bread. The mixer kept stalling while kneading the dough. I returned it for replacement.
It took KitchenAid almost 3 months to send me the replacement. Apparently they don’t make too many of these and my color (red) was out of stock. By the time the replacement came my enthusiasm for breadmaking had diminished. Saturday it returned. I watched the episode of “The French Chef” three or four times and then set out to bake. Mrs. Lion helped me set up the mixer and find ingredients. It went very smoothly. This dough consists of flour, milk, yeast, salt, and butter. I followed the directions and all appeared to go well. This dough has three rises. The first two take place in clean bowls and the last in the pan in which the bread is baked.
The first two rises were perfect. By the time we got to the third, it was after 8 PM. This one was very un-energetic. After over two hours it still hadn’t risen as far as it needed to go. We decided to bake it anyway. When it was finished, it didn’t have the beautiful square shape of Julia’s loaf. We set it out to cool. Mrs. Lion cut off a few slices and toasted them for our Sunday breakfast. I thought it was delicious. French bread has more body than most Americans are used to. It is a soft bread, but quite firm. I consider the baking a success even though it didn’t look perfect. I will try again soon.
Through all this, Mrs. Lion was a big help. Given my poor vision and relatively unsteady gait, she got most of the ingredients out for me and put them away when I was done with them. She’s not as fond of this new bread as I am. She likes the very soft American commercial white bread. Oh well.
Mrs. Lion mowed the lawn on Saturday. By the time she got back in the house she was tired and achy. Clearly she was in no mood for anything sexual. I was feeling a little horny but not enough to make it worth asking her. I’m sure Sunday night will be more exciting.
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while I’m sure you’ve noticed that I tend to publish penis pictures. I’m pretty sure that most of our readers don’t find them particularly entertaining. I think I do it because it’s kind of vulnerable to me to expose myself this way. I’ve decided that it’s a better idea for me to not put the cock shots here unless they are absolutely necessary to what I’m writing. On the other hand, I suppose it wouldn’t hurt anyone if I provided a link now and then like this one, so that anyone who cares to can see. I could use some feedback on this subject. Please let me know how you feel.
I’ve been working from home for over a year now. Before I was put on furlough, I generally wore a T-shirt during the day so that I could participate in video conferences. Now that I am out of work and no more videoconferencing, I’ve been completely naked for the last two or three months. I don’t think I would be comfortable if I had to be dressed at home. Of course, it is not my choice.
Nice sharing about your cooking experience! And I think that the idea with linking photos is ok and worths to be tested)
Thank you! My first cock shot link is in the post. 🙂
Nice shot and the idea of linking is interesting
Thank you. I guess I will continue. 🙂
Kitchen Aid is notorious for putting plastic gears in most of their machines. You have to read a lot of fine print to make sure you are getting an all metal motor. You don’t want to leave your precious things to plastic do you?
The mixer that kept slipping a gear is the 6 quart “Professional” model. All the parts inside were metal. My new version is the 7 quart commercial mixer with a nearly 1/2 hp motor. It’s parts are all metal too. KitchenAid is famous for making exceptionally good mixers.
My wife has one of those 6-qt mixers and we have never had a problem with it… if course, we have never tried kneading heavy dough in it, either.
As for the pics, while I don’t care to see them unless you are modeling some new cage, it is YOUR blog, so you folks do what you like. It certainly isn’t going to scare me away.
Hope you are really feeling better and not having any relapses.
Thanks for the good wishes. I am feeling better. It’s not totally gone, but on the mend. Kitchen Aid has been great to us. I love our new 7qt mixer. It’s expensive, but will last for generations. In terms of pictures, I plan to publish the ones that illustrate our posts. Others that are less interesting to men will be links.
About your pictures, I don’t mind them as often as you like. Or mind if you link them. If you do link them I likely won’t follow the link.
I’m a big boy and have seen many cocks, bums, tits and pussies. A few more cocks are no big deal.