Tasty Tuesday

I have found the best bread recipe EVER! I'm not kidding. This stuff is good. The best part is that it's simple and foolproof. Really. No kneading, no punching and rising again. You can find the recipe and the details here. I'm too lazy to retype that or even copy and past it. At first, I thought I totally ruined the dough. I was on the phone while adding the flour and was sure I'd added too much. After all, my dough was supposed to conform to the bowl and it didn't look like it was going anywhere. But I decided to leave it alone and it did this...

Prepared pans in the oven, ready for the bread.

The loaf before...



The loaf after...

Pure heaven I'm telling you. That crunchy chewy yummy crust. Wow. Just like being at Panera. The best part is that the dough makes enough for 4 loaves, and you can keep the extra dough in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. This is my kind of bread!!

New Bread Recipe

Today I tried a new recipe for "Pillowy Soft Whole Wheat Bread". It turned out very well and is yummy. I like it because most of the hard work (aka kneading) is done in the bread machine. Don't get me wrong, sometimes I like kneading bread. It's very theraputic. Some days though, it's nice to let the bread machine do the work. This is the first whole wheat recipe that I have gotten to work for me. I have a feeling it's because of the wheat gluten, which I had never used before, but had bought for this purpose. Although you use the dough cycle on the bread machine, you do bake it in the oven. Lest you think my bread turned out perfectly, I thought I'd share the "keepin it real" picture. This is the one that shows the chunk that got stuck in the pan when I took it out.