Homemade Bread

Sunday was a lazy conference day. I took Mason and Diego home and my SIL, Amy, had just made homemade bread. She got a bread maker and wheat grinder a while back and hasn't bought a loaf of bread in over a year. Insane! I was telling my mom about it and she gave me her old Kitchenetics bread maker/food processor/pasta maker machine that was all the talk back in the 80's. :) I can't believe she still had it and everything but the blender works. She had an old wheat grinder too, but the seal is broken so flour sprays everywhere. You have to either duct tape it or hold a towel around it while it's grinding. So I hadn't tried making bread yet since the grinder made me a little apprehensive. Amy told me she would just grind me some wheat while I was there so I could take it home and try it out. She sent me home with the recipe she finally found and loved. Now, if you don't know me very well, I have very few domestic skills. Why, I don't know. My tomboy self refused to learn too many girlie skills when I was younger and I'm regretting it now. Plus it just doesn't come naturally to me. I know what I like with crafts and stuff, but am I great at thinking up an idea - NOPE! I have to see it first. Oh well, I suppose my gifts are just different than so many of my cute, creative friends (although I'm not sure what they are). I can organize like there's no tomorrow, but I have to be in the mood for it. Maybe that's something. ;) Anyway, sure enough I did it. I made this bread all by myself and it was the best bread I've ever had. Marcos and the kids were pretty impressed and could not stop eating it. Let's just say it did not last us a week - or even close to that. But I thought in case I forget that this type of thing is very much possible with a decent machine, I decided to post about my bread making experience. So here it is. And it wasn't even that much work. I just had to keep track of the time for it to rise, but at least I didn't have to sit there kneading the bread over and over.