Food is good.

[xiphias]

So, I've been sick for the past couple days, and I haven't left the house to go shopping. I haven't gone shopping for several weeks, and we're running out of stuff.

Now, when I say "we're running out of food", understand that I mean, "we can now only feed a family of six for two or three months." I mean, we're out of milk, eggs, bread, cheese, vegetables, fruit, and so forth -- but we've got at least five pounds of dried beans, twenty pounds of flour, twenty pounds of sugar, canned goods up the wazoo and down the other wazoo, and so forth.

So I wanted bread. And I didn't want to leave the house to get it. So I put flour, salt, yeast, and water in the Kitchenaid mixer, and mixed it all together. And I stuck the bowl of the mixer in the oven, which I'd goten to, oh, maybe 150 degrees or so, to rise. And I shaped the dough into four little loaves and put them on my Silpat on top of a cookie sheet, and let the little loaves rise again. And I baked it at 450 degrees for half an hour, spraying water in the oven first to make steam to develop a crispy crust.

Bread is good.

Comments

Breadd IS good

[breadd.livejournal.com]

Breadd IS good

dontchaknowit!

(your "out of food" is roughly like mine is. I'm trying to fix that.)

(oh, and KitchenAid is good, too)

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

the other wazoo? /nervous

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Bread is wonderful. That sounds really tasty!

[mitchellf.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Bread....:-)

So, do you have any really good recipes for bread--I'm trying to get Vekson112 to try something other than "garden variety white" (read "Wonderbread"). I grew up eating whole grain breads, and he fears them, but I think if I were to actually *bake* the bread myself, he might be more apt to at least try it before snuffling away like a scared animal ("you bought _what_ kind of bread? Whole wheat bread is scary.").

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Um. . . that was a recipe. . . put a pound of flour, a heaping spoonful of yeast, two not-so-heaping spoonfuls of salt, and a glass of water in a mixer and mix it. Add more flour or more water as needed to make it the right consistency, which is wetter than you think it is. Let it rise, form it into loaves, let it rise again, then bake at 450 for half an hourish.

I've got lots of bread recipes but I don't use them yet, because I'm not good at bread yet. Once I get a good feel for it -- by which I mean I can consistently make a good loaf without a recipe and without particularly measuring much -- then I'll start experimenting more.

[mitchellf.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Thanks for the measurements! :-)

Good luck with the breadmaking (I'm still experimenting, too--mostly I just use my mom's challah recipe, but that's still a kind of white bread...).

Hmmm...I think I'll also need to get recipes from Tapuz and Greenlily (Tapuz makes an excellent whole wheat challah--as you may recall from the RD House days, and Greenlily makes this applesauce-oatmeal bread that's just amaising). :-) So, if I manage to get those recipes from them, would you like me to forward them on to you?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Sure!

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

oh right, the applesauce-raisin bread. (I don't think it actually has oatmeal in it, just wholewheat flour) It's in a Moosewood cookbook I don't own, but I'm pretty sure tapuz does 'cause that's how I found it in the first place...will find and post.

[marquisedea.livejournal.com]

bread IS good. the best, i think to myself, sometimes.