One of my favorite foods is bread. Bread of all kinds. Wheat, rye, sourdough, crusty french loaves - I could probably live on it. Hmm, perhaps I look like I do.
My mother used to bake bread from scratch - not too many mom's did that, where I grew up. There truly is nothing like the smell of baking bread.
It's one of my favorite things to do.
This weekend I decided on Barefoot Contessa's honey bread.
I adore all Ina's recipes. YUMMMMM.
If you've never tried her recipes, I highly recommend. I think I have all her cookbooks.
So, one of my most favorite kitchen tools is my Kitchen-Aid. And the dough hook. Does a lot of the work for you, but you still get to knead the bread, and punch it a few times.
Then you leave it alone in a buttered bowl to rise for an hour. YAYY.
This recipe makes 2 loaves. So you divide the risen dough in half, and let it rise again, this time in it's buttered baking pans.
And you end up with this.
Utterly delicious. I gave one of the loaves to my father in law. Makes the best toast!!!!! YUMMMMMMMMMM
