Bread as we mostly know it . . carbs in general . . are on the “do not touch” list with our healthy eating plan. But I have to have some amount of bread and finding alternatives to white bread is my best bet. I’ve been grinding wheat and making whole wheat bread but last week, my friend who I think should have been my sister, posted a couple of links to what I consider healthy bread.
Easy Danish Rye
German Whole Grain
I believe there’s a huge difference between most whole wheat flours that you can buy these days and the flour I mill from organic wheat berries. Between flour that I grind and regular storebought white flour . . I feel certain that difference is even more astounding. The wheat grinder and the mixer I use for bread are now staying on top of the countertop.
Gadgets on the Counter
My old Kitchen Aid from about 1990, which, in my opinion, is far superior to the Bosch when it comes to making cakes, cookies (like I’m doing any of that these days!) but the Bosch is the boss when it comes to big batches of bread dough! I do not like having things on the countertop but if they’re stuck inside a cabinet or on a shelf in the sewing room closet, I’m not going to use them and we’ll end up buying whole grain bread at the store . . which isn’t bad but I can do so much better.
Next will be a lesson on how to mess up every container in the kitchen!
Bread Dough
I knew this container was not going to work but I thought . . maybe, but . . probably not! The dough was going to sit out overnight so I figured I’d check it before I went to bed but way before I went to bed, it had already pushed the lid up.
Bread Dough
Next attempt was the biggest bowl in the house. There wasn’t much extra space so I wasn’t hopeful that it would make it through the night.
Bread Dough
Sure enough, before I went to bed, it was obvious it was going to overflow.
Bread Dough
I had been avoiding using my big plastic dough bucket because I had just taken a load of garlic out of it and it smelled horribly of garlic but in the end, that was my only option. I should have used it in the first place and not ended up with the extra bowls to wash.
Bread Dough
This morning I dumped the dough into the pan. I love dough that sits out overnight and I can bake it first thing in the morning! Fresh bread by 7:30 a.m. and I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot already.
Bread Dough
About 1-1/2 hours later, we have bread!
Bread
I will hold off cutting it til it’s cool. We can only have bread for breakfast but I do think I need to at least taste it, don’t you think?
Joyce says
Both of my parents had a hard time waiting for homemade bread to cool before slicing. Most of the time the desire to sample beat out the desire to wait until cool. 🙂 They also tended to fight over who got the heel. (They both wanted it.) My opinion is that it must be sampled. You can’t risk Vince having to eat bread that isn’t up to par! ;^)
Sherrill Pecere says
Ohh, that looks SO GOOD but definitely not something I could eat. The first thing I noticed were the seeds and, when one has diverticulosis, that’s a big no no. It makes that condition rapidly accelerate into diverticulitis (something I’m suffering with at the moment and NO CLUE what I ate to cause it). Sigh…..
Laura says
I can’t do without bread either! All things in moderation, I think.
Eileen says
YUM!!
Wendy says
Looks great – which bread did you make in the photos. It doesn’t look like the Easy Danish Rye. Thanks for the link to the Danish Rye. I’m going to have to give it a try.
AnnieO says
Haha, I’m good at dirtying a lot of dishes when I cook, too. Right now I’m craving some nice dark squaw bread. It has molasses which I love but wouldn’t call it a whole grain type bread! Every day I listen to the doctor I work for tell people the same 4 items to cut down on for weight loss: bread, pasta, rice, potatoes…
Diane Russell says
I love how you make alot of your food. Now I need to know where you got the large loaf pan and the bread tub to use for the rising. I have been thinking of making breads more often, especially the really healthy ones. Must find a wheat grinder and the wheat.