Monday, March 15, 2010

Back in the game...sort of.

It seems this has been another winter with sickness settling its way into our home. Colds, earaches and the like have hit the family. Yuck! Pick a day and one of us (or all four of us on a really bad week) was suffering from some symptom. Which is why I haven't kept up with the HBin5 Bread Braid as much as I had hoped to. Back in January, I did manage to bake the Soft Whole Wheat Sandwich bread and even made hamburger and (really sad looking) hot dog buns, but never got around to blogging about it. Oh well. We are getting healthy and now it's time to get back in the game :)

Assignment #7: Avocado-Guacamole Bread and Pesto Pine Nut Bread



I say I am back in the game "sort of", because I only made the Avacado-Guacamole Bread this time around. When I first got the new book, "Healthy Breads in Five Minutes a Day", one of the first breads I made was the Pesto Pine Nut Bread. I made two loaves. We enjoyed one with neighborhood friends at a potluck dinner and the other went into the freezer. I meant to get it out when my parents came to visit in December, but forgot all about it.

Thankfully this bread-braid assignment came along just in time for
their next visit this week. It's our youngest son's 3rd birthday on the 22nd and "Grandmom" & "Kapa" are coming back! I'll get the loaf out and we'll see how well it survived in the freezer. I have never frozen a loaf of bread, but it should be fine. Right? I'll let you know later.

Okay, back to the bread I did bake.

I mixed up a 1/2 batch of the Avoc
ado-Guacamole bread, per our baking schedule from Michelle over at Big Black Dog. I didn't have fresh tomatoes, so I used some from a can. I mashed up the avocado (okay, my 3yr old did!), added the crushed garlic and tomatoes and then remembered I was only making a half batch. That was easy enough to fix however. I used half in the recipe and mixed in more of the canned diced tomatoes into the other half of the avocado and scooped it up on some whole grain chips. Yum!
On baking day, I made a batch of Bob's Red Mill: 13 Bean Soup Mix. It was a lovely dinner, and very pretty.
I am looking forward to reading everyone's entries for this bread-braid and I'll see you again in April for the Carrot Bread. Take care!


13 comments:

  1. Your Avocado-Guacamole Bread looks great and I'm so glad that you enjoyed and employed your 3-old in the process. I can just see the little hands mashing up the avocado..so cute!

    I'm looking forward to the Carrot Bread too!

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  2. Your bread turned out beautifully. My carrot bread is resting on the counter as I write. Can't wait to see more from you.

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  3. Great job on the guacamole bread. It sounds like such a fun one to make. I've been off the baking schedule myself for the past few turns, but it is time to hop back on!

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  4. My 3 year old loves to help make the dough too. She is getting great at whisking the dry ingredients together. Great job!

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  5. I freeze bread all the time. right afte it cools down seems to be the best time. when you thaw it taste like it was freshly baked. hope yours survived well.

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  6. Great post.....thanks for sharing....your bread looks great!!!

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  7. Mmmmm Fresh bread and a bowl of hot soup. Does it get any better than that? Beautiful job on the avocado/guacamole bread. I'm looking forward to the carrot bread too. :)

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  8. The breads look fantastic and the soup looks great too! Yum!

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  9. Your bread looks lovely! I'm looking forward to the carrot bread as well.

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  10. Your bread looks great and I bet it was tasty with the soup. Hope everyone is feeling better.

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  11. Beautiful loaf and the soup looks wonderful as well. Who could resist? I haven't started the carrot bread but it sounds like another winner.

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  12. Beautiful loaf, and the bean soup looks luscious too. I know you posted this in March but it is perfect for fall :)Makes me want to get in the kitchen and bake.

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