Yesterday I started baking bread at home despite the fact that bread is readily available at the supermarket at incredibly low prices, reasonably fresh every day.
I am not sure I can even articulate why, there are more feelings than thoughts involved and I think this post, on this new blog is a way for me to sort it, or maybe even just to note it.
What I will tell you is that I cut the end of my fresh out of the oven loaf of bread, bit into it and declared immediately that I was never going to buy bread again.
I mean, we’ll see how long that lasts but the end result was incredibly tasty and fortunately it was incredibly easy to make. So there’s probably a chance I will decrease my purchasing of commercial bread LOL.
I got the recipe from YouTube as one does in this day and age and it promised no kneading, little mess and very little fuss. Only four ingredients go into it and the hardest part of the process would be time management, you need to let it sit for an hour or so and then an additional thirty minutes. With only four ingredients the mixing is incredibly easy and done correctly there is next to no mess at all.
It was very satisfying to make the bread and I am a little bit proud of the end result being sandwich worthy. In fact today I had toast with it and it didn’t taste like some sort of artisan bread, it was just plain and simple bread.
That was nice, and it was simple and it was effective.
As I get older I’m discovering the joy of occasionally colouring within the lines. In the past I would often approach stuff in my own way, with less research and reverence to rules or instructions. These days I’m more present in what I’m doing and the results are good.
I didn’t have to ignore all conventional wisdom to do this and it was pleasant and quiet to not swim against the current for a change.
That’s not to say I won’t mess with it in the future! Even now I’m thinking about how I’d adapt it to make café style fruit toast.
That’s it, just some navel gazing, no great lesson or life hack.
Thanks for reading.
