i like bread

So remember when I said I was going to stop buying bread, well I basically have! I think I have only purchased one loaf of bread in the past two months or so. The top photo is a glimpse of the batch of toasters I am working on for the May 1st update. The second photo was a loaf of bread I made to go with Brown Rice Lentil soup which I made the other day. It was a mix of brown rice, lentils, green + yellow split peas, veggie stock, crumbled fake meatballs, and the rigmarole of spices.

I wanted a quick bread that i had not made before to go with it, and started looking into soda breads (a bread that uses baking soda as the leavening agent). I used this recipe and it turned out as a perfect dense soup bread!

Last night I decided to get the famous No Knead bread started following the recipe here. While it was very easy to make, I think next time I would let my bread rise a little longer. Mine rose for about 16 hours (next time I would aim for the 24 or so) and then I let it rise for the next two hours but it didn’t seem to double in size. I still went head and baked it, and it smelled amazing…it just doesn’t have as many lovely bubbles inside as I would like, and kind of did a big crack open on the top while baking.

It still looks and tastes good, and I think I will use it to make something for dinner tonight. Just next time longer rising time for sure.