Here's the recipe, for LA :):

The thing about this bread is you need to begin with a starter. To do this, mix 1/3 cup flour, 1/3 cup sugar and 1/3 cup milk. Put into a large, gallon-sized ziplock bag and put it on your counter. For about a week, leave it on your counter, mushing the batter around a bit everyday. (Take the bag in your hands, and mush the batter around, squishing it and squeezing it.) Now you're ready for the recipe.

Friendship Bread:

Do not use metal spoon or bowl. Do not refrigerate. If air gets in the bag, let it out. It is normal for the batter to rise, bubble and ferment.

Day 1: This is the day you receive the batter start. Do nothing. (Unless you start with the start you just made, so mush it.)

Day 2: Mush the bag.

Day 3: Mush the bag.

Day 4: Mush the bag.

Day 5: Mush the bag

Day 6: Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup milk to the bag. Mush it around, mixing it into your start.

Day 7: Mush bag.

Day 8: Mush bag.

Day 9: Mush bag.

Day 10: In a large bowl, combine batter, 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Stir and pour four 1 cup starters into gallon-sized ziplock bags. Keep one starter for yourself and give the other 3 away to friends with copies of the instructions (starting at Day 1).

Add the following to the remaining batter and mix well:

1/2 cup oil
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
1 large package of instant pudding (vanilla, chocolate, banana, coconut cream...)

Optional: 1 cup chocolate chips, 1 cup raisins, or 1 cup nuts.

Pour into two large greased and sugared (a cinnamon and sugar mix)bread loaf pans. Sprinkle more of the cinnamon and sugar mix on top. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 1 hour, or until done. Cool for 10 minutes and remove from pans. Makes 2 loaves.

Take your starter and begin again.

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Thanks for your thoughtful comments, LA. Much appreciated. It's nice to know I'm not just writing this for dead space :).
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This should be a good day. No one has called, asking me to babysit their kids, I don't have to move a friend in and then move my entire house around, I don't have any meetings, or errands or other things demanding my time...

Tomorrow is another story. Tomorrow we're up early to go about an hour away to see some friends for a couple hours, visit my in-laws, and then come home for a bar-b-cue at another friend's house. These are all good things, but again, leaves me little time to putter away at the keyboard. Sunday is a similar thing, though not as hectic, thankfully.

I hope this means life is getting back to normal, where I hang with Avadore, get my writing fix, study Latin, wonder if Avadore will let me play the piano or the guitar, etc., and read, and take care of the house.

Alright, LA. Now I'm going to write. I'm positive I'll feel much better. Thanks.