When you don't have eggs

You make cheese sandwiches.

Wheat bread topped with muenster cheese a favorite in this house.

 For texture and more flavor, I used a bit of bacon and sprinkled it on the cheese.

The toaster oven gives it the finishing touches and they are served with pears.

This was all very impromptu as I had to use the ingredients I had available at home.

Freshly baked

n one of his saturday visits, the BIL made bread. 

My bread machine is small.

But the flavor of this load was BIG.

Must make more.

Making bread

This gift from my sister sat in the pantry unused for years. But no more, the girls and I are on our way to becoming creative bread makers, or padeiras, as we say in Portuguese.

I had to find the manual online.

We used recipes from this book.

This was the simplest recipe - white bread.

It turned out really well. It is delicious.

It was a really fun way for Snowden and Grasshopper to spend a day off from school. I'm ready for more.

I am a baker

I used to make bread with the machine my sister gave me years ago. I will do so again, but I was inspired by the no knead bread Kelli made for me. I followed the recipe. and I am not sure if my dough came out too soft.

All set.

Dough is prepared.

And here it is, cooling off after baking in my cast iron pot for about 50 minutes.

No-Knead Bread

I haven't tried it yet, but I purchase all the ingredients yesterday including my new cast iron pot. Take a peak at my friend's take on this recipe.