Anyway, last night was Earth Hour, and so at 8pm we shut off all the lights and non-essential electronics. Most of our complex went dark -- there was only a single light on outside one house. My housemate flaked on the couch and read an ebook on his palm pilot. I lit a half dozen candles (mmmmm, beeswax) and spent some time looking through cookbooks. Paper cookbooks. (gasp!) Ultimately I found a bread recipe close to what I've been wanting, and started bread by candlelight.

Many hours later, after Earth Hour ended and we'd (eventually) put some lights back on, a very tired me pulled these out of the oven. The original recipe was for Mollie Katzen's sunflower-millet bread from Enchanted Broccoli Forest (a Moosewood cookbook), but I veganized the recipe and converted it to a 12-grain loaf by the very simple expedient of substituting a multigrain cereal mixture for the millet. It's hands-down the healthiest bread I've ever made, and also the best 'sandwich bread' -- it slices perfectly, and has a good, non-crumbly texture. Probably won't last long. Half a loaf is on its way to a sick friend, and the other half is almost gone too. Good thing I made two loaves. ;-)