Bread Baking Goodness

I've had a few friendly requests recently for some food/recipe blogging. So, I thought I'd post some pictures of my most recent cooking venture. I've been baking our bread for the last month or so instead of buying it. The reason is multi faceted. One being that Pearce is allergic to walnuts which means we have to avoid tree nuts bc of cross contaminations. You wouldn't believe how many things are made in a tree nut factory. A lot of bread being one of them. Plus, I like knowing what is in my bread and if I make it, the list is about four ingredients long. And also, have you ever had fresh baked bread?? seriously. delicious.

The book:

In my research Peter Reinhard turned up everywhere as the whole grain bread baking guru. And I have to say, it seems "they" were right. This whole wheat bread is pretty awesome. Even Shawn says so, and that's saying something. I would just post the recipe here, but A) I fear I'd get arrested or something. I think there is probably a copyright issue with that. And B) It's a lot to type. So if you're really intrigued I recommend buying the book.

It does take two days to do this bread, but don't get intimidated bc it's not hard in the slightest. You just have to mix some of the dough the day before and let it rest for 12 hours. But it takes approximately 7 minutes to mix this dough, so calm down about the whole 2 day process.

And here are the deliciouso resultos.

I usually make two loafs at a time and slice it all up and freeze the other sliced loaf. Shawn eats bread for every meal and every snack. Shawn's super power is to turn carbs into energy more efficiently than any other human on the planet. I think he survives solely on carbs. Pearce has seemingly inherited this gene.

Speaking of Pearce. You're welcome for this shot. This is how excited he is about his mom's bread baking ability.