I'm a freak.
About a year ago, because I didn't want to dump whey (leftover from making yogurt) down the drain, I bought a bread machine & started making all of our bread. At the time I did the math & figured that the fancy-schmancy machine (a requirement if I was going to bake bread as I knew--& still know--nothing about baking) would pay for itself in one year with the savings from not buying our $3.50 per loaf grocery store bread. Factor in the "savings" in preservatives & highly processed nonsense & it was a no-brainer.
Today is "free" bread day...
...it's a beautiful day.
I'm celebrating by pushing myself waaaaay out of my comfort zone & making hamburger buns for our veggie burgers tonight. Anything that requires me doing anything with dough that isn't of the cookie variety terrifies me, but what's the worst that can happen? Veggie burgers a la plate isn't the end of the world & maybe hamburger buns can be one more thing I can make to take better care of my body & the other three bodies that I feed each day.
Would love your recipe. I also have a bread maker, but love cooking bread in the oven.
ReplyDeleteDo you eat a lot of bread? Do you have a way to make it less "point-y" than regular bread?? I hate spending more than a point a slice on bread so I would feel like I'd have to buy it to keep the points down...
ReplyDeleteI don't eat a lot of bread. For me, I've found that I'd rather have less high quality stuff than more light stuff. Mine is 3pps per slice, but the slices are really thick & big so I just use one to make a sandwich. I'm all for doing whatever works for you, though so if you do better w/two slices of light bread, do it!
DeleteI always wondered how to get whey without resorting to milking my own cow. I see it called for all the time in bread recipes. Right now I just use water or powdered milk. Supposedly whey makes a more tender loaf and it adds more protein which is as I recall is good for WW.
ReplyDeleteI'm still working on eating more yogurt, but with my midwife's call to eat a minimum of 70 grams of protien a day, I feel like I am eating dairy all the time. Perhaps it is time to try making yogurt! I guess I'd need a crockpot first?
I know someone that does her yogurt in a large stock pot in the oven. I think the process is similar, but you have to leave the pot in the oven for the entire time, so you'd have to have a chunk of time when you didn't need an oven. I bet if you google it you could find out the details...but then you wouldn't need any new hardware :)
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