Saturday, January 23, 2010

Adventures in Bread Making

My friend and bread making QUEEN Sheena would be so proud... I have been baking bread!! Lots and lots of it!


My mom gave me the Joy of Cooking cookbook for Christmas this year. My mom has had her copy for years and some of her best recipes come from it, and I had been asking for it for a while. My brother also gave me the movie "Julie and Julia," (and funny thing, Julia Child sort of disses "Joy of Cooking" in it!!), so I have been really inspired lately to branch out a little in my cooking and try some new things. One thing I have always wanted to get into but never had the guts is bread making. It just seems to hard- everything has to be just right, and there is nothing worse than bad bread!! So, I turned to the bread section of this cookbook and it explains the ins and outs of different kinds of breads so well, I thought that maybe I could give it a whirl.
So far I have made french bread, milk bread (which is absolutely amazing), and cinnamon-raisin bread (a few times).

We have been eating the Cinnamon Raisin bread for breakfast in the mornings


And the milk bread is so yummy with some jam or apple butter.


Can you tell Abby loves it?



Look at that sweet jelly face!!

1 comment:

Danielle said...

I love the picture of your cinnamon bread. So cozy! And yes- Sheena would be proud!