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My kitchen looks like it is housing a dozen science experiments!!

My mom will truly get a kick out of this blog.  Oh, wait a minute, be right back - have to check on the bread.  Okay, I'm back - it was looking a bit stiff.  It's in the soaking stage right now.  It's just one of the many science experiments I have going on in my kitchen currently.

The others are:

• soaking cornmeal, to let all the nutrients come forth, so that they can be absorbed in the tortilla pie tomorrow.  Actually this is just regular cornmeal, so I doubt there are many nutrients left in it, but Whole Foods, didn't have any dried corn today.
• soaking oats for breakfast tomorrow - oatmeal surprise.  Weird name, but it sounds delicious.  Oatmeal with a bit of fresh apple, cinnamon, and walnuts!! :)  soaking it for the same reasons.
• sprouting spelt! - this is my first try at sprouting.  There are so many more nutrients in grains when you sprout them.  I thought the kids would stick their noses up at the thought of eating sprouted grains, but they were excited!!
• Yogurt cheese - our first try at cheesemaking.  This is the easy way - just put a quart of cheese in a cheesecloth, hang from a cabinet and let the whey drip into a bowl overnight!  We'll have yogurt cheese in the morning.  This is the consistency of cream cheese and can be used interchangeably with just a little flavor change.  yogurt cheese has 18 calories per tbsp. and cream cheese has 50 per tbsp - plus the yogurt has all those probiotics!!!!  Woohoo!']
• and my next attempt at bread!  It's soaking overnight as well.

So, my counter looks like something off of Back to the Future with all the gadgets and gizmos, but we're having fun trying it all!!!