Wendy's Wanderings

It is with great pleasure and pride that I share with you a photo of my very first bread.

I can’t believe it myself!

It all started when my friend brought me this bread that she had made. I found it delicious, better than anything I had ever tasted and she said she made it in a bread machine.

Now I had heard about those machines but I thought that they were for my mom, that they did not really make good bread but this was really good, so I decided I had to try it.

A couple of weeks ago I went to Target and I bought, you guessed it, a bread machine. I swung by borders and picked up a book about making bread, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, by Jeff Hertzberg MD and Zoe Francois. It is excellent and I can only recommend it. The recipes are superb, there is no kneading and all of the things we associate with bread making. The authors have really changed my entire point of view about making bread.

Then I went to my local organic store and bought all the ingredients. I measured everything with exact precision. I pushed the button around 4:00 PM and around 7:30 a miracle was accomplished; my first bread was coming out of the machine! I could not believe it.

I tried it again a couple of days later, and the same thing happened. Now I eat bread all the time.