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I've often wondered if my peers from 2nd grade are alive now - that Wonder Generation. Or have they all died of cancer from poor nutrition? Maybe they turned into the wonder parents of their day and baked all their own bread for their children, who went to school with fresh-baked goodness, while their poorer counterparts ate day-old Wonder Bread with baloney. It all seems so wickedly ironic, doesn't it, this about-face from one generation to the next?
Here at my house, we rarely buy bread. Mick and I both bake - he makes the crusty Euro-loaves that go so well with my soup habit, and I bake the toast and sandwich loaves that take us through breakfasts and Saturday tea. Sometimes we add a focaccia to go with a meal like spaghetti, and of course our own pizza dough for the occasional movie night.
Bread dough is the ultimate cooking no-brainer. It happens during the course of a day in between doing laundry and making the beds and sweeping the kitchen floor. It's not a special event. It takes way less time than going to the grocery store to buy bread. You also get the pleasure of the marvelous baking smell, and the sheer ecstasy of fresher-than-fresh tasty goodness, and knowing what ingredients are in that loaf. I buy locally-sourced organic flours in bulk. I know what's in my bread. Fresh-baked bread, in my less-than-humble opinion, is one of the Wonders of the World!
How about you? Do you bake your own bread? What kind?
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2 comments:
I used to break bread Dani. Two loaves every morning. No over in my RV, however. Just a three-burned stove and a microwave.
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Dani - baking crusty bread is such a passion of mine! And you are right, the smell of baking bread - wow! There's nothing better! Like you, I rarely buy bread -- can't stand store-bought bread even though I was raised on it. When I was little, my Gramm lived one block from the Sunbeam Bread Company and the smell was intoxicating but the texture and taste -- well...and the lack-luster crust that wasn't crusty.... turned me right off. My favorite line as a kid was that I'd have "a sandwich without the bread" But now that I know the yummy wonders of freshly baked breads now that's quite another story!
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