When people get a bread machine they’re generally faced with two conflicting fears.
The first fear people have is that when presented with wonderful, homemade bread that they’ll go wild. They’ll become bread-eating machines. Who could have restraint when faced with the aroma of baking bread?
The second fear, oddly enough, is that they won’t eat [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about sourdough bread since I tried the Last week there was a sale on oranges at the grocery store. So I bought a few and made orange bread. The recipe calls for orange zest. We started out the new year with a treat from the mother of the Man of the House. She’s Dutch and sent us a box of hagelslag (dark chocolate sprinkles). In Holland people put these on buttered toast. We used them on sandwich bread. Delicious! It was a fun way to start out 2010. For Thanksgiving dinner I served apricot dinner rolls based on my apricot bread recipe. The rolls ended up fine, but were a little too brown on the bottom. I’m going to play around with the recipe a little bit and then I’ll pass it on to you. We really like our new location and the rental house. One of the few problems is the stove. It’s about 25 years old. The burners have a mystery substance melted on them. The timer knob is missing. The clock no longer works. Most annoying of all, the oven seems to run hot. Sorry that posting has been so spotty the last few months. We’ve been in the middle of a move. It’s not a typical move either. We moved from our house located in a city of 120,000 people. Now we live outside a town of 9,000. It used to be that a grocery store was in [...] To be honest, cheeseburger cupcakes aren’t related to bread machines. But KateDW’s flickr page showing how to make these adorable cupcakes is too cute to pass up. I don’t know about the weather where you are, but we’re having a heat wave here! The temperatures are going to be in the 90s this week. Yikes! I’m reading Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. I’m suddenly filled with the desire to cook lobster and make butter-filled sauces. I’ve even paged through our copy of Mastering The Art of French Cooking. |
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