I have drunk the bread-making Kool-aid so thoroughly that I have signed up at my local Sur La Table for their bread-baking class, which is taught by a baker who is also the retail operations manager for Beckmann’s retail bakeries—Beckmann’s is the brand of sandwich bread I buy at the market, so this seemed like a good sign.
I’m hoping I can get a handle on this before I’m asking Darin if we can take our next week-long vacation in Vermont.
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Rob and Laura came over this morning so that we could make brunch together. My first batch of dough for cinnamon rolls did not go well, and so I did not have rolls waiting for them when they arrived. Laura—who has done so much baking she has evidently flirted with the idea of starting her own baking service—helped me whip up another batch of sweet dough for cinnamon rolls (using the recipe out of Domestic Goddess) and showed me some ways of how to tell when the dough is done.
The rolls were pretty tasty when they came out even if, as Sophia complained, they didn’t have frosting on them.
Laura, by the way, who has baked far, far more bread than I have, loves Beth Hensperger’s books, including and especially The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook, which she uses all the time. In fact, she has inspired me to take the book out of the library and try to make some bread doughs in my machine again.
Oh, that book is wonderful. I don’t own it, regrettably, but have checked it out several times.
How’s the diet coming? IT seems lately you’ve been obsessing about food in your blog 😉
Heh. Yes, I know, I haven’t updated the Other Blog for a while (I keep track of my workouts on a piece of paper, which is always in the diaper bag, which is permanently in the car…). I’m lifting again and starting to amp up the cardio, which will be good once I can start running out in the Great Outdoors again.
The “diet” as such isn’t. I am pretty happy that even with all this cooking and baking I’ve been doing, I don’t seem to have gained any weight — I’m holding steady. What I need to do is start writing down what I eat again. I can’t follow a strict “diet” — it doesn’t work for me. But writing down what I’m eating, seeing what I’m actually consuming…that works wonders.