BREAD….

I feel ssssoooooo much better. I did have a little time to bake, cheated, but baked. Bread!!! I love home made bread, but didn’t have time to do the oven thing. Bread machines can be a real life saver. So that is what I did – baked bread the easy way.

Fresh Bread

Fresh Bread

This is a good basic, sort of sweet tasting bread. Great with a little butter, plain fresh out of the oven (DUH!!) or with a little jam/jelly.


White Bread

    1 1/2 cups water
    4 1/2 cups bread flour
    3 Tbl sugar
    2 Tbl dry milk
    1 1/2 tsp salt
    2 Tbl butter
    package yeast

Select basic setting. Add ingredients to the machine according to manufacturer’s instructions. After baking remove from pan and place on rack to cool. Cool to room temp before slicing. (Yeah! Right!)

I never seem to have powdered milk on hand, so I just use 1 1/2 cups milk instead of the water and powdered milk. Works well for me.

… and EGGPLANT

This year we planted something a little different. Instead of the the big purple Bonnie Bell eggplant, we tried the white variety. It is quite good. The eggplant is a nice medium size and the skin seems to be more tender than the big purple or Japanese eggplant.It can be used anyway you would use the purple. Stuff it, fry it, saute it, etc. I sliced mine very thin, seasoned, dipped in cornmeal/flour, and fried in little canola like chips. They fry very quickly, so watch them closely. Good!!

And one more thing.

We are finally getting tomatoes. Remember we planted late because of the wedding (Terri – this pic’s for you)

Bride and Groom

Bride and Groom



Now the ‘maters are coming in — lots and lots and lots — will be ripe soon. Guess I will have to make marinara and stewed tomatoes. The big ones are what are called 4 -4 and the little is the grape tomato. Wish I liked raw tomatoes, but I like them every other way.