Our Daily Bread

 I guess I've never given bread its due respect. I normally opt for the low carb stuff, regardless of taste. Hubby can get by with the 69 cent loaves of white, and we spring for whole grain for the Boy. It's only job is to hold the adhesive (mayo, mustard, jam) to the ham, right? 
Toast. Hamburger buns. Peanut butter jelly time.
I've come to discover that without bread, new meals must be invented. Bread- or the lack thereof- has the power to force sane people onto insanely icy roads in the dead of winter (a power triad shared equally with milk and diapers).
In some countries- and, at certain points in history- in our country,  people spend hours in line waiting for bread.

 

Going without it, even for a couple days, and having it again makes it so much easier to appreciate. 

I couldn't wait to get to the farmers' market and sink my teeth into a raspberry turnover from Pleasant View Orchards and pick up some fresh bread. They carry such a variety but I opted for plain white, figuring it would go further with all my meals than a sweet bread. This bread is exquisite! I've read about but never actually tasted a "chewy" bread. No butter required. This is what all other white bread aspires to be.

But, since man cannot live by bread alone, I also picked up some of Ashley's 100% natural stone ground whole wheat flour, with the intension to spend all day learning how to bake hamburger buns. That is, until I searched the depths of my cabinet to unearth three  packets of Red Star active dry yeast stamped best used by October 2010. Looks like its biscuits with our burgers tonight.

Menu for Aug 3:

Breakfast -the incredible, edible egg

Lunch- The Great White Bread, and zucchini bread from Wilson Creek Gardens , salad with green onions and hard-boiled eggs and a bear snack stick from Millan's.

Dinner- Sausage, Potato and Green Bean skillet