Baking ~ Foodies Wanted

[Lady_Di]

Originally Posted by OneOfAKind

I wish I had a bread machine so I could start making my own low carb and high protein bread. It is like $6.00 a loaf. Thats crazy. And living in the desert, it is wayyyy too hot to use the oven in the warmer months. Does anyone have any good recipes for bread that are low carb, high protein??

As I sit here waiting for the pool to open and enjoying the sun that is about to come over the horizon, I wanted to let you know that being from the desert does not preclude baking. I am a native New Mexican and learned to bake from scratch. In the heat of the day, I did not turn on the oven. But many a time my butch would wake to the scent of bread baking. I would start the dough before I went to bed. Animals would always need a tending to, so I had many a chance to check on its rising, give it the touch it needed.

I was cooking and baking on and in a wood stove that was over 100 years old and I loved it. Stoking a fire, getting the temperatures just right, it was an art I learned over the years on my mountain there. I did not cook much in the heat of the day, nor bake.

And many of my Native New Mexicans do their bread baking outdoors. And I even experimented as I always liked to do, trying to bake in a bbq, a smoker, and even a boy scout homemade solar oven experiment that went quite well. I love scientific method. And yes, many times I failed, but when it came out right, it was amazing and such fun for me. My butch at the time LOVED it. Was great at helping me collect the wood, split it and stack it for me. A win win situation. Twice, or thrice warm wood. First gathering the wood, cutting it, then the actual burning of it. Love it.

but yet again I digress...

Hope you get the bread making machine and enjoy it, but for me they simply don't do it for me. I gave the darned machine a good try, my ex enjoyed some of what it produced. But there were some glorious failures too, which taught me a lot along the way. And I did not like the bloody noise, too~! I don't see how the yeasties could like it, they are pretty sensitive creatures, imo.

I am a tactile baker, chef. I have to touch it, see it, smell it... get to know it personally. Either way, enjoy it, however you want to try it. Much of cooking is an art as much as it is a science, imnsho.


oh, another sort of bread we made a lot on the Steppe, the High Desert plateaus.... flat breads, ie homemade tortillas. YummmmO!

Invest in some good cast iron and try some of those easy peasy, delicious carbs. Now I want a breakfast burrito in a homemade flour tortilla, with hatch green chile. Oh well... not today, but it is a lovely thought/memory.

~so much of memory is of the flavours of which we partook~

Sun is up!!!

Glorious