Comments on: It’s Just a Loaf of Bread

By: catana

catana — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:36:00 +0000

I guess I could consider that a kind of honor, to be someone’s home page. Hope you do get into the breadmaking. I’m sure the kids would enjoy it.

By: catana

catana — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:44:34 +0000

Thanks for the comment. it’s true that you can buy pasta very cheap, but it doesn’t taste as good, particularly if you get into specialty pastas. I don’t make mine any more, because it’s just me, and not worth all the work, but the combo of homemade pasta and homemade sauce can’t be beat. I do still make my own sauce.

By the way, though I appreciate the links, it’s not necessary, and not really to your advantage to put non-relevant links on your blog. There are several today.com blogs that I read fairly regularly, but I don’t put anything on my blogroll that doesn’t relate to the central theme.

By: gamingtips

gamingtips — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:15:16 +0000

This is a great post, as is the rest of your blogs. I’d love to learn to make bread. A while back I learned to make pasta from scratch. It seems like a bit of a waste, because a) Good dry pasta only costs like $1 a pound anyway, and b) My time is worth more than that, BUT, 1) it was really fun, 2) it wasn’t all that time consuming when I’m making sauce anyway (I can’t stand jarred sauce). While my sauce is cooking, I make the noodles.

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By: catana

catana — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:47:57 +0000

Some of the better quality breads do make baking your own less than economical, but there are other ways to look at it. The bread I like most costs over $3.00 a loaf, and that’s a small loaf. For less than that, you can make several loaves. Most recipes make at least two, and it really isn’t worth it just to make one loaf at a time. There’s also the enjoyment factor. Some people love bread-making and consider it just as worthwhile a use of their time as any hobby. And how many hobbies fill the air with intoxicating aromas and fill your belly so happily?

By: cgardener

cgardener — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:22:14 +0000

I keep saying I’m going to start making my own bread, but never do. I always get seduced by the $2 load of Nature’s Own Honey 7 grain. I figure my time is worth more than $2, and I like this bread…a lot!

By: catana

catana — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:03:43 +0000

LOL! Sorry, the recipe is a deep, dark family secret, and a contract would be put out on my life if I gave it away. Just kidding of course. Cookbooks are full of great recipes. I haven’t made bread in a long, long time, and I do miss it. I live alone, and my kitchen is barely big eough to move around in, much less allow for projects like bread-making. I do dream every so often about clearing the decks and giving it a try. There’s nothing like the smell of home-made loaves, I’ll tell you.

Dang! Now I’m hungry.

By: danyellewon

danyellewon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:16:25 +0000

That’s great as far as bread philosophy goes - now where’s the recipe for this delicious whole grain bread? I’m hungry…