11/6 Baked Potato Bread YAY!!

Results
Delicious! The potato flavor is good, although it likely needs more bacon bits. Shane liked it.

The whole loaf, the perfect size.

The slices before they were devoured.

Recipe
from Electric Bread, Baked Potato (Extra Large)
3 t active dry yeast
1/4 C chives (I left them out, Shane doesn't like onions)
1/4 C instant potato flakes
2 t salt
2 T sugar
4 C white bread flour
1/4 C bacon bits
1/2 sour cream
1 C milk

Rambling
This is an incredibly dense dough. The bread machine was working really really hard to knead the first time around. Because of this, I ended up stopping it right before the loaf started baking, and ran it through the cycle again. This is not a loaf that I would make casually, I would need a compelling reason to make it again.

11/5 Granola Wheat FAIL

Lesson 6: Repeat lesson 5 with a small modification: Don't use all purpose flour on accident ever in the bread machine.

Sunshine's first at-home fail. The recipe called for all purpose flour, which I think I will never do again. It didn't bake well, it didn't bake into the right shape, and it tasted nothing like yummy homemade bread. I will try this recipe again another time, but with bread flour.

11/2 Challah YAY!!

Christine and Sunshine were at the North Carolina office with Caitee, and Caitee made this lovely Challah. We used it for our sandwiches at lunch.

10/18/10 Cornbread and more...

We decided to make cornbread, then brilliantly decided to bring in things that go with cornbread, primarily chili. It was our best yet.

The cornbread

Christine's white chicken chili

Matt's tequila chili

Kevin's hot chili

Jason's bean chili

And this isn't even half the food. There were two more chilis, and tons of fixin's and dessert.

10/15/10 Cranberry Blueberry FAIL

Lesson 5: Don't use all purpose flour on accident in the bread machine.

Sad but funny at the same time. Gwendolyn's cranberry blueberry bread didn't bake all the way through, nor did the fruit get blended in when we added it. We hope it's due to the fact that we accidentally used all purpose flour instead of bread flour, but we are not sure.

How crazy looking is this?

Our stats are headed south again...9 for 13.

10/14/10 Oreo YAY!!

Practice makes perfect. Round two of the Oreo bread was brilliant. The Oreo content was doubled, and we brought in cream cheese icing for a spread. It disappeared quickly.

Hamilton's best Oreo loaf to date!

We're 9 for 12 now. Stats are improving consistently!

10/13/10 Oreo YAY!

Hamilton made Oreo bread today, and it came out with a good texture and everything. However, the Oreo flavor was very subtle and didn't quite do it. We can't decide if Oreo doesn't belong in a bread or if it needs a sweet spread like cream cheese icing.