Oh, my children think that book is the best thing that ever happened to them! The authors have a blog, too and they’ve got videos and FAQs and all sorts of useful information there.
I also have this book and like it a lot. I think I have the first edition and there were a ton of errors so be sure to check their website for errata (like in the amount of yeast!) Other than that, the olive oil bread is my go to favorite for just about everything. So tasty!
Another HUGE ABin5 lover here! I’d never made bread before (the yeast and timing seemed so intimidating) I’d asked for this book for Christmas ’08. It has made a huge difference — being able to have homemade bread that I control the ingredients in has been wonderful. I’m now usually asked (or expected) to bring bread to family and friends’ houses.
I now have the Healthy Bread in 5 (Christmas ’09) and have made a few things from that. I’m mostly tending to combine the concepts a bit — making a more rye and more whole wheat version of the European Peasant bread.
I like that most of the recipes are very flexible — I can add oat bran, wheat bran, ground flax seed — etc. when I feel like it.
This book will change your life (well, it’s changed mine, anyway . Over the winter I’d guess that 3/4 of our suppers were homemade soup and peasant bread- yum!
Awesome…I need to get that book! As a literary aside…have you seen this program from Powell’s…http://www.powells.com/indiespensable/past_installments.html
Indiespensable! If oyu scroll down, there’s some crow business that might interest you!
Hmmm…this book is making the rounds of my blog and Facebook reading lately. I just picked up the Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes cookbook this week and will be trying my first batch tonight. We’re especially looking forward to some whole wheat bagels. Let us know how things turn out!
“Exploration,” says John Stilgoe, author of Outside Lies Magic, “is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.”
Yes: it is so, so much fun, and that is why I write these posts all chattery with excitement over this or that connection the kids made today. (Or that I made myself!) I know I get carried away, but that’s the point, isn’t it, that way leading on to way has carried me away?
And yet—and yet—I think we are at once ‘carried away’ and made more fully present in the now, more rooted, by these relationships between ideas about things past and future. The joy of connection makes me want to celebrate this moment, this brief encounter with wild-haired child and broad-trunked tree, bus going by, sign on church wall, Scottish warlord creeping over the tower wall and startling the English soldier’s wife who has just put her babe in arms to sleep by crooning that the Black Douglas won’t get him. Child, laughing, shouting “Dinna ye be sae sure aboot that!” across the courtyard outside the library. How can I not celebrate this freedom?
Every day is complicated, messy, and full of friction. And every day has glorious or cozy moments worth celebrating. I seldom bother to chronicle the friction and the mess because writing time is fleeting and precious—and childhood even more so. I’d rather capture the small joys that I might forget—or take for granted—if I don’t take time to set them down in words.
(Excerpt from this post about Real Life, quoted here because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that things are always perfect around here! Heaven knows we are anything but. Perfect, frictionless, orderly? Nope. Happy? Most of the time!)
Be like the bird
Who, pausing in flight
On limb too slight,
Feels it give way beneath her,
Yet sings,
Knowing she has wings.
Looks like it might be time to dust off my old bread blog.
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Oh, my children think that book is the best thing that ever happened to them! The authors have a blog, too and they’ve got videos and FAQs and all sorts of useful information there.
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 7:27 pmI also have this book and like it a lot. I think I have the first edition and there were a ton of errors so be sure to check their website for errata (like in the amount of yeast!) Other than that, the olive oil bread is my go to favorite for just about everything. So tasty!
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 7:42 pmWe LOVE this book! My oldest Cubkid makes boule all the time. It’s wonderful!
Posted on March 15th, 2010 at 8:04 pmAww, you’re going to love it! You’re going to wonder why you ever spent hours kneading, punching, and rising. I will never buy a $4 baguette again.
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 2:54 amI love this book too! My seven year old can just about make the peasant bread by herself. So easy, so tasty!
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 3:30 amAnother HUGE ABin5 lover here! I’d never made bread before (the yeast and timing seemed so intimidating) I’d asked for this book for Christmas ’08. It has made a huge difference — being able to have homemade bread that I control the ingredients in has been wonderful. I’m now usually asked (or expected) to bring bread to family and friends’ houses.
I now have the Healthy Bread in 5 (Christmas ’09) and have made a few things from that. I’m mostly tending to combine the concepts a bit — making a more rye and more whole wheat version of the European Peasant bread.
I like that most of the recipes are very flexible — I can add oat bran, wheat bran, ground flax seed — etc. when I feel like it.
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 4:19 amMmmmm… I will need to look into getting this book!
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 4:51 amThis book will change your life (well, it’s changed mine, anyway
. Over the winter I’d guess that 3/4 of our suppers were homemade soup and peasant bread- yum!
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 6:51 amAwesome…I need to get that book! As a literary aside…have you seen this program from Powell’s…http://www.powells.com/indiespensable/past_installments.html
Indiespensable! If oyu scroll down, there’s some crow business that might interest you!
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 7:18 amThis is one of my favorite cookbooks. It’s especially useful when I get on a soup-making kick. Mmm.
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 7:35 amBest bread ever! Enjoy!
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 10:59 amYesterday I made the buttermilk bread recipe on page 207…DELICIOUS!!!!
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 11:53 amHmmm…this book is making the rounds of my blog and Facebook reading lately. I just picked up the Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes cookbook this week and will be trying my first batch tonight. We’re especially looking forward to some whole wheat bagels. Let us know how things turn out!
Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 12:02 pmYou’d better dust off the bread blog. Share some of the goodness with the rest of us.
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Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 6:51 pmWhen I 1st saw the post-I thought it was going to say he baked you that loaf of bread!
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