Sunday, May 17, 2009

What did you do this weekend?

I spent several hours Saturday making several different kinds of bread. DH asked me to 'come up with' a good Breakfast Bread for toast! (No way I'm gonna let that slide! Especially after paying $1.88 for a decent loaf of REAL wheat from the store with no HFCS. :-) "Why dear, I thought you'd never ask!" ..So I happily worked on that and sliced them up and put them in Ziploc bags to store in the fridge!!!
**Update: He was very please and compared my Wheat and Flax Bread to Ezekiel Bread (the texture, when toasted)- mind you a $4 and $5 loaf of bread! Woo hoo! Above is the Wheat and Flax.
These two are Whole Wheat and pretty close to perfect! ;-)

One loaf of the wheat was eaten right away with butter and honey. (You can see the price sticker for $11.89 in the back?? It's on my 5lb bucket of honey from Cash-n-Carry!)


Fresh tea and bread with butter and honey to wind up my baking....but as usual...every time we do this....on a warm day....the next day is cold...I don't know why....80+degrees one morning, the next 56!
:-)



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Need the recipe!!! Looks delicious!

Organized Nutrition said...

AH Donna, those look great! I need to figure out how to make a LIGHT FLUFFY Whole Wheat loaf... My hubby hates (ok, doesn't really care for) homemade breads cause usually they are heavy... he likes LIGHT... GRRR! I make him suffer anyways!

Donna said...

Denai, Don't give up!
They will be heavier but- you CAN find something that he likes!

Have you seen my wheat dinner rolls? They use some plain flour but it is the "bread" that usually wins everyone's favor.

http://momsfrugal.blogspot.com/2008/01/whole-wheat-dinner-rolls.html

(Anon)
That is also the recipe that I used for the bread in the top pic with flax....I used the 2 cups of wheat flour, 1/2 cup ground flax, and half cup of unbleached flour.

I also use butter, beef fat, or olive oil rather than shortening, now.
(N.T. = traditional fats are said to be better for you!)But they were very good with the shortening! ;-)

Organized Nutrition said...

thanks Donna... I do have a dinner roll that he likes, just NO sandwich bread YET!!!! Key word is YET!!!!
I started using PALM shortening, but most of my recipes I use butter in... GOOD OL' BUTTER!