Daily Doings

This morning after posting I will be heading out to hit some yard sales and do some basic shopping we need milk and lettuce.  Then it's back home to try and get my pantry organized some. Then to do a couple of loads of laundry by hand, my washer is not working right and BuilderMan has been too busy this week to take a look at it.  So back to doing laundry African style, ewww.  But at least it will be hot out today so everything should be dry by this evening. 

Bread making today:  my "plan" (you know the best laid plans....) is to bake 8 loaves of bread and 2 loaves of cinnamon bread and possible one loaf of zucchini bread and get most everything in the freezer for next week. 

Favorite Italian Bread Recipe:

1 Tbsp Yeast
1 Tbsp Sugar
2 1/2 cups of warm water
Let set for about 5 minutes to dissolve yeast.

Add 1 Tbsp. Salt
5-6 cups of Flour

You can then either use your stand mixer if you are too busy to knead or knead about 10 minutes until smooth and elastic. 

While kneading set up warm steamy environment.  I boil water in the microwave and then either put it in my oven which I preheated and then shut off  or because I have a huge over the stove microwave just leave the water in there and place my loaf pans in.   

I then put in greased loaf pan place in your warm steamy environment.  Let rise till at the top of the pan.  Bake at 400 degrees for 15- 20 minutes. 

Variations: To turn this recipe into cinnamon bread:  Add 2 more Tbsp Sugar.  Roll out dough after kneading spread on 1 cup of butter, sprinkle 1 cup of sugar with 2 tsp. Cinnamon and a few sprinkles of Vanilla.  Roll place in loaf pan and let rise as normal. 

Tip of the DAY!!!!

I bake my bread in an electric roasting pan.  Pre-heat the pan at whatever temperature your recipe calls for.  Place roasting rack in the bottom, if you don't have one you can use thoroughly washed tuna fish cans with both top and bottom cut off just place them in so that your pan is flat and steady.  Just before placing your pans inside add 1 cup water.  This will give you the perfect consitancy of chewy bread crust and soft inside that is awesome!  I also use the roaster to bake cakes, brownies well just about anything you can use your oven for and or your crockpot for!

Passage for the day:

Colossians 3:12-17

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also MUST do. 

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 

And let the peace of God rule in our hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.  Let the word of Christ dwell in your richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. 

As women we often forget that love is not an emotion, it is a choice.  One that we need to make each and every day.  That choice to love our husbands and our children and our neighbors today will draw us closer to our Lord and our Heavenly Fathers plan for our lives with is to be more like him each and every day. 

??????????Question of the day?????????

What is your favorite Hymn or Praise Song?  I would love to be reminded of some old ones I haven't thought of in years, and learn of some new things to listen to in my daily focus time.