This actually came about two weeks ago, but I was distracted with the minor affair of my sister’s wedding. This did not follow on a partial request, but I’m not going to quibble.
This means that Sylvia has, once again, won. Apparently optimism is the way to go. Now the big question: Will she get the hatrick*?
Sylvia, shall I design you another pie, or would you like to name a different prize?
Anybody penalty watching will be happy to know that I have a massive buffer in between me and the danger zone. If I keep up the pace, I’m going to run out of agents before I run out of the year, which case we’ll hit the game finale a bit early. That’s okay; I’m looking forward to the finale.
*Is that the right way to use that word? I suck at sports analogies.
Anaea Lay 
I clearly have inside information! Congrats and well done!
I love your step-by-step blog posts so I think I’d like to get another recipe. I’m in Spain at the moment and there’s no good bakery nearby. So accepting that I can’t buy exciting flour here, do you want to try to ease my woes with an interesting loaf?
I can get plain flour, wheat flour, and “cake flour” but nothing exciting like rye or spelt or anything like that. I have fresh yeast and I don’t mind setting up a sourdough. Does that sound like a fair prize?
That sounds fair, though I should warn you, I am a bread novice. I baked more bread in January than I had my whole life prior, so I don’t have a whole lot of insight or handy tips to pass along.
If that’s okay with you, I’m thinking a loaf a challah might be nice.
That’s definitely ok with me!