What would you do? ~

I keep coming across this on Pinterest so I think I must answer the question. 

Open a cute little bakery that included breads, scones, tea breads, cookies and cakes ~ that way I could bake all my favorite things

Open a fabric and notion shop with all the pretty fabrics and must have notions for sewing, quilting and crafting ~ with a corner dedicated to Hawaiian prints

Open a bed & breakfast where we offered a freshly baked item each morning along with orange juice and coffee ~ and maybe appetizers in the evenings on a lanai

What would you do?

Thoughts on making bread......

Bread for all Seasons by Beth Hensperger

egg white wash sprinkled with sugar in the raw

find the wheat berries......

Making bread, the yeast, kneading, mixing and the rhythm eluded me for decades. I tried again, now in my 4th decade, and have had success. Even my family asks me to make bread, which is the greatest compliment. But here's the thing, I get bored making the same bread over and over, so I go looking for other recipes with different flavors to try.

I began my renewed  interest (and determination) in baking bread with Cooks Illustrated Anadama bread and are now mostly baking from Peter Reinhart and Beth Hensperger. Yesterday I began a recipe from Ms Hensperger book, Blueberry Cardamon Bread, with dried blueberries (I soaked mine in orange juice) and wheat berries ( soaked in water, cooked in water and cooled).

I bake it, cooled per instructions and sliced for every one to try. The wheat berries hardened up...How did that happen? So it is like eating bread with small popcorn kernels. My kids like it because they like biting on nannies. The bread is really tasty, moist and I would make it again without the wheat berries. Which brings me to these words found on Pinterest

My bread is not perfect but it is a beautiful thing!

I enjoy the process, love the result and it satisfies me that I can provide for my family. Enjoy your day and I hope that I have encouraged someone to try something new.