Wednesday, September 8, 2010

All in a Morning's Work

I have had a strong bug to be in the kitchen. I have been wanting to make my own bread each week for our family. My Artisan Bread cookbooks arrived last week and I spent one morning reading the intro chapters.

If you really want to know how bad I've wanted to be in the kitchen, listen up! Last Thursday, I line up all the ingredients to make the Oatmeal Pumpkin bread, I unloaded the dishwasher, had perfectly clean counters, my excitement was over-the-top! Only to have it immediately crashed when I realized I didn't have the dough hook for my KitchenAid mixer. I mean the recipe even called for the dough hook or a food processor. I looked high and low, dug through two random kitchen boxes in the basement.

THEN, I remembered why I had not made bread for a couple years. My dough hook was all metal and accidentally was put in the dishwasher and ruined. I called Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I called Williams & Sonoma, Mom even looked at Macy's, her W&S, and everyone said they could order it for me. With severe disappointment, I put all those beautiful ingredients away! But that was Thursday and today is Wednesday and wooohooo I have homemade bread!

This morning I made:
Honey Butter
Pureed Spinach
Pumpkin Cake dusted with powdered sugar from Amish Baking cookbook
Oatmeal Pumpkin bread from Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day
1 Batch of Triple Berry Jam



Aren't you wondering how I was able to make bread today? Well Mom to the rescue, brought me a Cuisinart food processor! Woohoo, thank you Mom! But I am taking my 20%off coupon to BBB tomorrow to order the dough hook.

3 comments:

Julie said...

Everything looks delicious! What is the pureed spinach for?

Did you need my address for shipment of all pumpkin related items? It hasn't changed, but I will gladly inform you again.

Okay, in all seriousness, great job in your kitchen!

Chartering New Waters said...

Thank you!

Pureed spinach is for adding to soups and sauces to add more nutritional value.

knitpic said...

Good job. Looks yummy!