SWEET SUCESS!!!!

French Bread 2

I think this batch will turn out nicely. So far it has risen and is in loaves waiting to rise and bake.

French Bread 1=FAIL

So I didn't even make it to the rising stage before I threw this first batch out. It seems when you dont follow a recipe it can make for disaster at times. I am sure I will wake up tomorrow with dough oozing out of the garbage and onto my floor! I had read about letting your flour and water rest and not worrying about kneeding it and thought I would give it a try HOWEVER I think you need to add a different kind of yeast to that because when I added yeast in water to this mix it just got all sloshy and goopy.

Second french bread in the resting stage now. This time I have mixed all ingredients and am letting it rest for the gluten strands to form. I plan on letting it rise, putting it in the fridge, and then trying the baking tomorrow.

French Bread

Trying my hand at french bread today. Actually I am making it up as I go along. Reading through many different recipes I have discovered there are 101 ways to make a loaf of french bread! So I am going to try a few different ones out and see what I like best. Never tried it before. One thing I have learned and I think I will do is to spray or brush the loaf with water as it goes into the oven. This makes the crust crispy and that is the part of the bread I like most. I have also discovered that the less flour and more water you used the softer the bread will be. I thought it was the other way around for many years. Currently I am letting the flour and water rest so the gluten strands start to form.

I am also thinking about getting my own wheat grinder as I have seen that many of the flours take out the nutrients and then add in other nutrients. Not so happy with that idea.

Will update on the bread.

Dice, Slice, Thrice

So I have teamed up with 2 friends and am going to be doing a cooking class~I am so very excited!

Our first night is Italian and I am in charge of bread and desserts! Oh, my oh! MY! So happy. I will keep secret for now what I am preparing but it will be delightful!

Tomorrow I am going to make French Bread! So happy! I have never made it before but I am looking forward to trying it!!

Orange Flaxseed Muffins

It's not that I haven't been in the kitchen, on the contrary I have! I am only TOO busy to post much. Along with that I haven't made anything that seems worthy to post about. I did make Chicken Alfredo last night with home made noodles and that was great.

On now to what I discovered today. I made the most amazing muffins ever in my life! They were crispy on the outside but moist on the inside and the paper did NOT stick to the muffin taking half away with it when peeled!!! Quite possibly the worlds best muffin. I think I have eaten about 5 today!

I will post the link HOWEVER I always tweak my recipes so for this one I added Flaxseed and did not add berries since I have none.

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SO there ya have it people the worlds BEST ever muffin. I will most likely use the recipe as a base and add what I want such as almonds, coconut, apples etc!

Strawberry Puree and Cream Cheese

We had our pastor and wife over for dessert and I made a fruit platter as they are not eating dessert for lent. I made a cream cheese dip to dip the fruit but I added some strawberry puree I had in the freezer. I can tell you that this will be my new favorite! It was so delicious! The fruit was fresh and the dip was very flavorful! 

I shall be making this again for our family soon. Quite healthy and wonderful!