Adventures in Domesticity

     I have discovered a new website that I dearly love. It is called Mom On A Mission and she is a veritable font of information regarding cooking in bulk and freezing for later. She also has the easiest--and when I say EASIEST, I mean "could not be simpler, made for dummies"--recipe for making bread that I have. EVER. SEEN. No kneading, no proofing, no letting it rise for the approximate length of the the Hundred Year War, nothing. You mix it (she mixes hers in a 5 qt. plastic shoe box--clever), let it sit in the box on the counter for about 2 hours with the lid on, then stick it into your fridge and let it hang out for 24 hours before you bake with it.

     The next day, you pull out the box, tear off a hunk the size that you need, let it come to room temp (about 1 1/2 hrs) and then use as you will. She even includes a list of all the things you can do with this bread--loaf bread, cinnamon rolls (oh, I am ALL. OVER. THAT.), pizza crust, dinner rolls--you get the idea.

     Anyhoo, this got me very excited. In the past, I have had an aversion to making homemade bread that bordered on phobic. Kneading!  Proofing!  Kneading again!  Rise time! Too much commitment! Cue Cathy-like scream of "Aaack"! (For those of you who do not know who "Cathy" is, try this website: http://www.gocomics.com/cathy ) Nope, no bread for me, unless it came from the store in a plastic sleeve, already sliced and ready to go.

     When I stumbled across this website and read the recipe, I decided--hey, I can do this. 'Shut up', I told myself. 'You have limited domestic skills, you CANNOT do this!' 'No, YOU shut up, I can so do this!' 'No, you CAN'T. For the love of Pete, you set the oven on fire at Daniel's 3rd birthday party just trying to make some lousy Bruschetta! Who are you kidding, Martha?!' 'Listen, you! I am 43 years old and dammit, if I say I can do this, then I. CAN. DO. IT.' And then, I left my psychoses by the wayside and got up, and DID IT. And I didn't just do it once. I DID IT TWICE. And now, I'm going to do it all the time. Because I CAN. So, there. It turned out perfectly, by the way. And all of my men loved it. Happy Mommy.

     Here is the lovely lady that I'd like to thank for helping me to overcome my bread phobia:

http://momonamission.me/?p=1025

     Be sure to check out the rest of her website as well. It is a-maze-ing.

P.S. I'm sorry I don't have a picture of the yummy goodness that my bread became. I promise that I'll try to edit this post at a later date and include the pictures.