MMMMMMMH.....Carbs

I *Heart* Bread

I love bread

Especially fresh bread,

Even better is homemade bread…

What’s better than that?

Healthy homemade bread so that you don’t have to feel guilty about all those carbs.

Anywho,

I’ve been making loaves of bread each week so that I can have sandwiches to take to school and work, and it makes me feel domesticated to make my own bread, haha.

I use a bread machine,

If you don’t have one… get one!

Just kidding, no reason for you to go spend upwards of $200 if you really don’t want it.

Seriously, though, bread machines rock, and while you could make this bread by hand, it would:

A.       Not be as fun

B.       Be a lot harder

C.      I don’t know how long you would have to knead it/bake it and what temp your oven should be at. So this is one project I don’t suggest you make DIY.

Here’s the list of ingredients

Pretty basic stuff.

You can find the wheat gluten at your local grocery store, next to the yeasts.

The Quinoa and seeds are optional and only add more nutrition to the bread. You can hardly tell the seeds are there at all, and my only complaint about the Quinoa (I used flakes) is that they’re rather chewy, so I’m going to grind them up first next time.

Alright,

Pour 13 oz. of warm water (I get my water from the tap and then heat it for around a minute or two to make sure it’s not cold)

3 tbs. molasses

3  5/8 cups whole wheat flour

5 tsp. vital wheat gluten

1 1/2  tsp. salt

2 tsp. yeast (make sure it hasn’t expired)

1/3 cup flax meal (ground up flax seeds)

1 cup Quinoa (again, it would be better to grind this up as well)

1/4 cup wheat berry seeds

4 oz. roasted/unsalted/hulled sunflower seeds

Here you can see all the yummyness before its mixed in

Then, simply turn on the bread machine,

Select the whole wheat cycle (or the closest thing to it)

“light” for baking preference

And press start! (if you have a bread machine, and will be making this recipe, you can let me know in the comments what kind of settings yours has and we can figure it out together… and if your bread turns out terrible, you can blame me)

Now, I’m going to tell you something rather endearingly embarrassing about myself:

I am easily entertained,

I love watching the bread machine do its thing…

And I even took pictures

(I’m just going to show you one, so that you don’t think I’m completely pathetic)

I also enjoy watching paint dry

And shampooing carpets…

Back to bread,

Once it’s done baking and cooling, take the bread out, remove the blade thingy, slice, and enjoy!

It makes the best toast (even better with black currant preserves, just sayin)

And an even better PB&J (I HATE peanut butter and jelly! HATE HATE HATE! But I love it when it’s on this bread)