Tuesday was all about food. Seriously. Just food. Oh okay and some laundry.
Sometime in the winter I got into the habit of making whole wheat bread weekly instead of buying store-bought. I’m home during the day and with a stand-mixer the bread isn’t hard at all…. only six ingredients. It tastes so fresh it’s hard to go back. I wasn’t able to get my act together last week to get it done, but was determined to make bread this week. Here it is:
After I dropped Ainsley off at school I ran in the grocery store (right across the street – seriously, could it be any more convenient?) to grab some pectin for jam. I bought strawberries with Liz on Monday and while today wasn’t the ideal day for making jam, I knew the berries wouldn’t wait. You can see how I make my jam here. I changed two things from last year: 1) I went with the low sugar pectin (I hope to try a no-sugar recipe with another jam later this summer) and 2) I added the butter as recommended and skimmed the foam. It helped tremendously and my jam looks a lot prettier.
While in the store, I grabbed some lettuce and spinach for salads this week. A few hours later I got a reminder email from our CSA (we found an organic CSA in our new town – yay!) to pick up our boxes at the drop site. Guess what was in the box? You guessed it lettuce, more lettuce, a little more lettuce, spinach, and an artisan loaf of whole wheat bread. There was also rhubarb and a small bunch of parsley.
Looks like we’ll be having a lot of salads with bread this week. Ha!
On a totally different note, I plan to host the Pinterest Party again this week. It doesn’t give you much time, but you can always post about something you’ve done recently…..
Comments (4)
That’s really cute…that 2 loaves lasts you a week! I am about to make 2 whole wheat and 2 potato bread and I hope it lasts longer than 2 days!!! Miss you my friend!
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Can you share your bread recipe? I would love to try making whole wheat bread and your loaves look delicious! Thanks!
I agree with Megan! Share your recipe! I have been making a honey wheat bread for over a year now, but am looking for a different one since the one I make can be fairly dense. I found another that I LOVE, but it’s not as easy and takes MUCH more flour.
@ Meg and Catherine et al: I updated the post with a link to the recipe I use. I use butter instead of coconut oil and cut her recipe in half for only 2 loaves. For the flour I use 4 cups whole wheat and 2 cups (plus as needed) for all-purpose. Have fun!