I made bread! (snow day)

[Zoe Girl]

So I have had the whole day to sit here, and I made our fave lentil soup. Then I decided to make bread and I did. I have 2 loaves of pretty decent bread here, I even skipped a last rising step and just baked it. Super yum, and glad to know I still got those homemaking moves!

[peggy]

A SNOW day? Really? That's just so wrong...on so many levels!
Yea for bread! And fires in the fireplace, and soup, and....but not snow! Not in April!

[Tussiemussies]

Sounds perfect on a snowy day. Glad it came out good for you!

[Blackdog Lin]

Yeah for you Zoe Girl - and there must be something in the air today as I also made 2 loaves of homemade bread this evening, and mine would also be categorized as "pretty decent". (I am not a bread baker.) Mine was English toasting bread, akin to English muffins - it's the only recipe I've tried so far that I can't mess up! A single-rising bread using rapid-rise yeast.

And like you mine is to go with our homemade soup (tomorrow - I'm making chicken-noodle soup).

It's this late spring storm/bad weather, isn't it? Gotta get our last winter cold-weather comfort-foods fix in, don't we?

[awakenedsoul]

That's great. I make all my own bread desserts. I love it. The last loaf I made was cracked pepper cheese bread. ~Yum~! Must be soup making weather. I made a beef stew the other day. I made soda crackers from scratch to go with it. All that stuff is so cheap and it's just delicious! Next on the menu is rhubarb pie with homegrown rhubarb!

[Gardenarian]

Wow. It's around 75 degrees out here and blooming!

[Blackdog Lin]

awakenedsoul: (1) not that I would ever actually do it, but am totally intrigued with the idea of making homemade saltines (soda crackers). Tell us about them. and (2) rhubarb. blech! :)

[awakenedsoul]

Well the soda crackers are more like salty cakes or scones. They're good in stew, though. I think the recipe just has flour, sour milk, salt, baking powder, and butter. I just like making that stuff because it's so much cheaper than buying it. Plus, I don't waste all the packaging. I love rhubarb! I'm almost to the point where I don't have to buy fruit anymore. I may add a few more fruit trees that will produce in the summer.