Do you like the smell and taste of homemade bread? My mom used to make home made bread just about every time we went home to visit. She actually taught me how to make bread, pasty and a number of deserts when I was pretty young. It actually turned out that I made pastry dough better than my mom so I kind of became the family pastry chief for a long while.
When I moved away from home and started living on my own I still made my own bread and occasionally made pastry too. You know, pie shells that I could use whenever I wanted and so on?
Unfortunately, since we moved into the house I haven’t been making many homemade deserts, pastries or even homemade breads. Even though I know that homemade breads are generally healthier and have more fibre in them than store bought breads.
I guess I don’t make bread, deserts or pastry very often because we aren’t big desert eaters around here. In fact, I’ve never even been a big bread eater … well unless it’s homemade and fresh out of the oven!
Still, I think I should start making some breads and more home made things again. We have a freezer, I can always freeze them.
Once reason why I’m thinking about home made breads today is because my sister is always talking about how much she loves her bread making machine. So … I’ve started to think about getting one myself. I don’t find making bread from scratch all that hard, but maybe I’d make it more often if we had a bread machine. Certainly there’s some great bread machine recipes out there.
Do you have a bread machine? If you do, how do you like it?
I actually do have a bread machine and I love it.
The fabulous Christine (catmommy) sent me one when she brought her new one last year. Rather than throw it out, she offered it to me, I snatched that right up!
I love it!
I make more breads in the winter, summer I just don’t like that heavy feeling from eating too many breads. Plus, I’ve discovered, that the more breads I eat, the more joint pain and headaches I get. I’ve tested this theory!
But anyway, if you decide to get one, let me know. I’ll send you a copy of the best bread machine recipe book ever.
I’ve made every recipe in the book, and they are fab-u-lous! So yummy!
I also use the machine to start my breads. I’ll start them and let them rise in the machine, and then place the dough in a normal loaf pan and bake it in the oven instead for a bigger size loaf.
My mom also has great recipes that people love.
The couple who blows their snow, actually takes my moms home made breads and baked goods instead of cash….LOL