Bread!
For about a year now I have been itching to get a bread maker and make some homemade bread. Well I am so loved that for Christmas I received two! Now we will take one back and get some more awesome kitchen gadgets (like a food scale so I can track the produce we grow in our garden this year) but one we will keep and I get to make homemade bread! This past Sunday we spent some time getting to know our bread maker by making some Garlic Bread sticks . Bread sticks only use the kneading element of a bread maker but we thought we should start with something basic! Here is my WestEnd Bread Machine : Ahh perfect heaven! Now in preparation for using our bread machine I did buy Bread Flour and Yeast this week. In my research I found a ton of people who say bread flour and bread machine yeast don't need to be used but others say it does so I am using the real deal! (And for anyone else who makes bread Ralphs brand Bread Flour -unbleached - is on sale for ...