Breadbaking dance

"[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses,

 like a dance from some ancient ceremony.

 It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells...

there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise,

no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel,

that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts

 than this homely ceremony of making bread."

                                                       ---M. F. K. Fisher, ‘The Art of Eating’

  My breadbaking adventure has taught me a lot.

I haven't made bread from scratch in years,

(I usually just buy artisan bread, or at times

make my own in the bread machine)

so this was fun.

I was not discouraged

 even though my first loaf didn't turn out well.

(It was like a ton of bricks,

and very tough.

Not good)

I wasn't sure if it was something I did

 (oh no, it couldn't be THAT!... wink)

or maybe it was my homemade starter below,

(No...I'm sure I made that right too)

or maybe it was the recipe I used.

(that's got to be it... of course...teehee)

So I picked out another recipe,

a 'no knead' recipe at that...

and used my homemade sourdough starter as before,

and got busy again.

The second loaf is like heaven!

Just let me know if you want this no-knead recipe.

Now, I'm off to enjoy a slice of my bread...

with butter, and a glass of iced green tea with lemon.

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods;

 and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”

---James Beard (1903-1985)

Visit Kimmie for Tea on Tuesday.

http://artinredwagons.blogspot.com/

Savor the Day!

Yvonne