I've been in a real cooking mood this weekend for some reason. Maybe it's all the cold weather, and the dusting of snow we got. Last night we had homemade pizza and homemade bread sticks. If you have a breadmaker, these should be no problem for ya. I LOVE my breadmaker. I use it to make homemade rolls and pizza dough... it's fantastic. I got this recipe at Recipe Zzar. I liked the dough recipe itself, especially the advice to roll it out and then cut the sticks out with a pizza cutter. The feel of the dough slicing up nicely and evenly under my cutter was addictive and quite satisfying... and they really do look like the bread sticks from Pizza Hut. I wasn't such a big fan of the seasoning recipe. It was ok at best. I think I would leave it off if I had to do it again and come up with something better. But the sticks themselves were fluffy and flavorful and easy. In other news, Seth is sick. He woke up a couple of days ago with a nasty cough, and it's only gotten worse. Today he's completely stuffed up and still coughing. Last night, he was pathetic. He'd cough and cough, and eventually, he woke himself up by coughing too hard. I padded into his dark room in my bedroom slippers, and I took him out of his crib to sit with me in the rocking chair. The light from the street lamp outside filtered through the blinds and fell over the chair, and I could see his soft hair glowing. He sat upright in the crook of my arm, and he sucked his thumb and calmed down as he breathed more easily. After a few minutes, I put him back in bed, and he drifted off to sleep again. Poor baby. I hate for him to be sick, but I do love the chance to rock him a bit at night. God created mommies to be comforters, and we love that part of our job sometimes.
I hope he's better in time for his birthday party this coming Saturday! Yes, my baby boy is turning 1 on Saturday, January 26. Sniff. We're having a big blowout for him. I'm packing in as many people who appreciate this sort of thing as my little house can hold. I'm going to attempt a homemade rocket ship cake, and my mom is helping me with party food. He won't remember it, but hey, he'll have the pictures to prove what a cool mom he has. I don't remember my brother's 1st birthday party, but I looked at the pictures enough times that I can almost convince myself that I "remember" his really awesome train cake. I'm going for that kind of "memory," I guess. =)
Now off for a Sunday afternoon nap before Mr. Grumpypants wakes up from his...
3 comments:
if you get a chance ... what kind of breadmaker do you have? I've been looking for one that's easy to use and not too pricy.
-katie
I have a Zojirushi bread maker with two blades. I hear the ones with two are better than one for kneading. It was pretty pricey several years ago, but it was a birthday gift from Mom and Dad. I've sometimes seen breadmakers at thrift stores, if you want to try it out with little commitment. You also might be able to find a Zojirushi on Ebay. It's been a great breadmaker, but I don't have anything to compare it to. And I almost never bake loaves in it because they always came out better if I just used the dough cycle and then put them in pans and baked them. The loaves were ok, they were just a little dense. I don't know of any breadmaker that does good loaves, though...
I have an Oster and have LOVED it! But as you say, it doesn't make great loaves. I love the dough it makes and use it for rolls and pizza also.
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