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Post by dsmith on Feb 14, 2011 19:46:31 GMT -5
I was given a bread machine by a good friend. I never knew what I've been missing!!!!!!!!!! I came home from work and decided to give it a try. Wow. You just put the ingredients in it, and it does everything. I have a new favorite toy.  I baked some bread a couple weeks ago, and the grandkids loved it. They have been asking me to bake more. Today, they got in from school, walked in the house, and got all excited, "Granny, you are making bread!!!!" Looks like I will be making bread more often. I do love to cook and bake. I told Dennis he needs to add on a room just to hold all my cooking things. I really do need to back off. We both need to loose weight. My boss at work can't understand why when I work in a bakery, I go home and bake. It's that German blood I guess. Plus my mom was a great influence. She was a great cook, and also loved cooking. But, during the summer, I don't cook very much at all. Dennis, being a teacher is home . He teaches summerschool, but gets off by noon. So I never know what we will be doing (probably fishing  ). I will get to feeling guilty during the summer because I don't cook much. Dennis tell me not to. He says it's just the two of us, and if I don't cook much, not to worry about it.  Anyways, somehow, this post seems to be rambling on and on. I just had to brag about how great my bread machine is, and wondering why I didnt get one sooner. |
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Post by buzzard on Feb 14, 2011 23:15:39 GMT -5
My mom has one and she programs it the night before so she can have hot bread in the morning when she uses it, but she doesn't use it a lot. I thought about getting one.............but I love warm bread way too much, more than is good for me. And I do love to knead the bread, watch it rise and all that. Just a "restful" process for me, one I'd miss if I used the machine. But not working, I got time to do all that. LOL, ds, you're as bad as me it sounds like. When I moved in here, I was tickled that the kitchen was so big and had so much cupboard space, for all my cooking doo-dads. Over the past year, I have gotten rid of some of them, giving them to my son Allen, cause he likes to cook. He comes around and talks me outta stuff on occasion. LOL
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Post by olhillbilly on Feb 15, 2011 4:40:22 GMT -5
I'd like a kitchen with a house built around it.
On second thought. A kitchen with a bath, a recliner, a TV, and a computer. All else is just trivial.
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Post by dsmith on Feb 15, 2011 14:41:08 GMT -5
Ha ha. Buzzard, you and Hilly are right. I thought I had a lot of kitchen space too. Just too much cooking stuff. But I do use most of it a lot. It doesn't just sit idle.
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Post by buzzard on Feb 15, 2011 20:38:04 GMT -5
I have a 12 foot counter on one side of my kitchen, guess it's really a breakfast bar but never gets used for that. The cupboards below it are so deep I can't reach the back unless I get down on the floor (meaning I can't because if I did, I'd never be able to get back up again!). Someday I'd like to have doors put on the livingroom side of the counter so I can get into it from both sides. I love that counter, especially during the holidays because I have so much room to put out the goodie making stuff. Got a huge marble slab board on top of it that my brother gave me several years ago, to do my pie crusts and cookie dough and such on. And I can leave my mixer out all the time, plenty of room. I have room between that counter and the stove where I could put a butcher block island someday too. When the kids come over, Allen, Angela and I can all be in the kitchen, with our own work areas and not falling over each other at all. Gotta love it. Yep, the kitchen is the most important room to me. When I saw that as I walked in, and the fireplace, I said "sold", my dad had to force me to look at the rest of the place, ROFL.
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Post by dsmith on Feb 16, 2011 14:50:07 GMT -5
OOOhhh, I am so jealous. I have an ok amount of counter space, but could always use more. My daughter is trying to buy a new house. It has an awesome kitchen. My son is gonna be here for supper tonight. I told him about the bread machine, and he wanted me to make some for supper. He watched how easy it is. Now he wants one. |
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Post by dsmith on Feb 16, 2011 15:22:54 GMT -5
Ok, I have to brag on how I got the bread machine. It came with some other nice things from a thoughtful friend. I have gotten the ok to reveal who it is. It is Mc. He is the one who sent us these great things. Thanks again Mc. I like telling everyone what a good friend you are.
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Post by mastercatter on Feb 16, 2011 15:39:48 GMT -5
You are most welcome! I knew that you would enjoy them and would want you to have them instead of giving to Goodwill. I do not hold yardsales and such...I also know that the girls would just sell them for what they could get at the time..Look at what the one did at Thanksgiving with dinner.
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Post by buzzard on Feb 16, 2011 20:25:35 GMT -5
That was real sweet MC. Nothing like the feeling you get giving someone something you know they will use and enjoy. :-)
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Post by tentfire on Jun 13, 2011 2:21:32 GMT -5
Last night I made up several loaves of Polish Egg Bread (yeast bread) and took to the flea market today. Most of it went pretty fast. Only had one loaf left so my mom and I split it for our bread for this week. It is a rich white bread, loaded with milk, eggs, and butter. The first time I made it, it really wore my shoulders out. So this time, I mixed it in my bread machine on the dough cycle, then took it out to braid it and let it rise on the pan, then baked it. It sure made it a whole lot easier (and faster) to make that way! dsmith (or anyone else), if you would like the recipe to try in your bread machine, I would be glad to send it to you.
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Post by dsmith on Jun 13, 2011 16:28:39 GMT -5
That would be good Anna. I do have an egg bread recipe for the machine. But won't be baking too much in this heat. Even with the bread machine. Just too hot.
Did I ever tell ya'll I have won a lot of ribbons at the fair for canning and baking. Actually, Dennis helped me a lot with the canning. We really enjoy canning things together. Have a lot of fun. But yeah, I have a huge stash of ribbons. Great for my ego. ;D Won lots of flavorings, spices, a candle, and a kitchenaide mixer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it sure does take a lot of work to enter. It's been about 6 years or so since I have entered anything.
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Post by tentfire on Jul 22, 2011 23:07:41 GMT -5
Yes, that is so fun winning ribbons at the fair for cooking and stuff. I don't even know where all mine are any more, wish I did. Mine were for baked goods, canned goods, dehydrated stuff, sewing and so forth. I cleaned up in the baked goods department, especially, though I got quite a few in the other departments. I went in to the baking competition my first time, took several blue ribbons, and majorly ticked off a bunch of old ladies. Apparently there was this group of ladies that had their specialties and took a blue ribbon with it every year for years on end. I went in and beat them out. Oh, were they ever mad!!! I figured that I had won it once, I knew I could do it, didn't need a bunch for bragging rights or anything, so I never went back, just let the little old ladies have it to themselves, lol, and all was happy.
Sorry I hadn't gotten that recipe posted on here, yet. In all this heat, I hadn't been baking and kind of forgot about it. I will dig it out here soon and get it posted. I have been wanting some, but it has been just too hot to bake, or eat for that matter.
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