yesterday, in between running a few errands, studying, and watching movies… i made bread. the excitement i have at actually having made bread that is edible and not a solid rock is immense. i feel like annapurna and it feels good.
i started with a recipe from smitten kitchen – bread without a timetable. i followed it almost to the T…not. i changed the type of flour used, used bran instead of germ and used rice milk instead of milk and water…. what i did follow was the idea that time and temperature don’t matter; you can’t overknead by hand; just relax and let it go. and it turned out great:
first bread!
steamy!
i was so excited by my first success making a baguette style loaf that i immediately cracked open the joy of cooking and made two loaves of white bread. it was an entire day of thinking about bread – i finished the last two loaves around 10pm. and they are awesome.
basic white bread. nom.
Oh, my gosh it all looks amazing. I am sooo impressed…knitting and making bread, all wrapped up in one daughter. There really is hope. Congratulations! (and thanks for the great instructions about how to do this!)
WHOA……….I make a lot of bread, and love homemade bread. the white bread recipe in joy of cooking is wonderful, and your loaves look great! it’s a great dough to use for cinnamon raisin bread, too.
and as a mom of 4 grown kids, the oldest 27 years old, i love that note from your mom.