@wwin wrote:
for Cane's Chicken the other night
@bgriffin wrote:
@HonnyBrown wrote:
Wow, we have sunk to making our own bread.
Sunk? It takes 4 minutes to dump all the ingredients in a bread machine and it's 10x better than anything you buy in the store.
@Sandy Shopper wrote:
I have made bread for over 50 years, although I still buy good quality sliced bread from the store frequently. I just like the smell of baking bread and the taste of it. I use a 5-minute recipe that does not require the bread to be kneaded. I can make a rustic boule with just flour, yeast, salt and water, and it goes great with soups and salads.
@Madetoshop wrote:
No bread machine here. @Sandy Shopper, please share your recipe. I have never made bread and want to try.
I wish I was as talented as you guys. I've elevated messing up bread to an art form. Too much liquid (flat loaf), Too little (tight crumb), over kneaded (discolored and off flavor), under proof, over proof ... I blame my mother for only buying store bought Wonder Bread. Making bread, to me, has a lot to do with feel and look which I find hard to learn from a book. Fortunately even my bad loaves taste better than store bought bread to my family.@CoffeeQueen wrote:
At any rate, it's hard to mess up bread unless it just doesn't rise for some reason.
@sandyf wrote:
I've got to get out there and find some flour. I had 2 bags of it only to find the pesky moths had gotten into both sealed bags, one of them was sealed inside of a plastic container with a tight lid. I do not know how the moths manage. I thought I had conquered them but they keep disappearing and then a few months later a new but much smaller crop appears out of my food closet. I have pheromone ? traps that actually caught close to 35 of them within an hour of my putting them out about 6 months ago. It was like a magnet, amazing.
But I too just eat the whole loaf within a few hours when ever I make bread.
@ceasesmith wrote:
My problem with homemade bread is I will eat the entire loaf, slathered with butter, before it has a chance to cool.
@Sandy Shopper wrote:
I have made bread for over 50 years, although I still buy good quality sliced bread from the store frequently. I just like the smell of baking bread and the taste of it. I use a 5-minute recipe that does not require the bread to be kneaded. I can make a rustic boule with just flour, yeast, salt and water, and it goes great with soups and salads.
@Sandy Shopper wrote:
Well Opanel, being able to boil water is a gateway to a lot of other cooking things. ..Toss some angel hair pasta into that boiling water and pour it into the strainer five minutes later. Put some of that angel hair on a plate and top it with half a cup of bottled spaghetti sauce. Voila! Lunch!
I know you're only kidding, but there are so many easy ways to cook, yet I find that lots of people are intimidated by it. Maybe they can use this enforced at-homeness to try a few recipes.