
I can’t let bread week go by without talking about sourdough, soaking, fermenting, sprouting, and other traditional ways of preparing grains–my “Real Food” readers would kill me!
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I can’t let bread week go by without talking about sourdough, soaking, fermenting, sprouting, and other traditional ways of preparing grains–my “Real Food” readers would kill me!

One of the downfalls of baking homemade bread, or getting the really good bread from the farmer’s market, is that it tends to get stale much faster than the preservative-laden, mass produced variety. Don’t throw it out, however–here are some ways you can make use of bread that’s not so fresh. Pin It
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I’ve discovered that many people are intimidated by yeast breads; lucky for me, I grew up knowing moms who made bread and so I didn’t know it was supposed to be difficult. My early attempts were quite successful, but over the past year I’ve had more duds than hits. So I decided to do some research.

I was looking for recipes that called for pumpkin puree and stumbled across this Oatmeal Pumpkin Bread recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking Pin It
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This is one of the recipes I made on my big bread-making day last week. I thought it sounded kind of odd, but the flavors really worked well together.
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