Saturday, March 16, 2013

Focus on Life / Week 11

This week, Sally Russick's Focus on Life prompt is "The Possibilities are Endless".  


 
Growing up as a child, my mother ALWAYS baked daily - breads, cookies, cakes - you name it.  I did not want for any carbohydrates, which explains alot.... There is nothing like the smell of freshly baked goods wafting from the oven...nothing compares!
 
When Mom moved in with me, I promised her I would try to have homemade bread on hand for her (and me!) , as well.  So twice a month, I bake bread.  And life is good!
 



 Hop on over to Sally's blog to see everyone else's Possibilities...




Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend!

37 comments:

  1. I love the smell of home baked bread and eating it too. You have certainly mastered the art. Now you have all that goodness without any additives. Very cool.

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  2. Love homemade bread and yours looks delicious.

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  3. Yum, homemade bread, great pictures!!!

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  4. Oh, yes... the smell of fresh baking is divine. We bake our own bread, every other day - and old style (the machine will mix the dough, but it is being formed and baked in the oven, 'free-form' style :) we love crust and the bread machine didn't deliver for our needs).

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  5. Oh, the endless possibilities that lie in baking,...Mmmmm!!

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  6. Love your take on the prompt! Bread can be plain or fancy, it's what you make of it!

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  7. there is nothing better than homemade bread *sigh* wonderful photos - wish i could scratch and sniff :)

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  8. I sure miss baked goods right now! ; )

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  9. Oh, I love it! KitchenAid Artisan? We all got together and bought one of those for my DIL Christmas 2011; I hope she is getting as much fun out of it as you are, she's a great cook!
    Great "possibilities" idea!

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  10. I have the most wonderful memories of my Oma baking bread every Saturday. The smell is the best. Happy to hear you are back to baking bread. It's a wonderful tradition.

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  11. Oh how I love the smell of fresh baked bread. My mother never baked bread but my aunt did. I never learned to bake bread either but I do use my bread machine every once in a while.

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  12. Yum! I love home baked bread- I can practically smell this.

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  13. Hi to the Fearless Lady!
    Wow, I could smell that bread! :)
    We dont usually bake bread in India, but sincec I had my scooling in a convent school, run by foreign missionaries, and we had many nuns in the Boarding under the school, who were westerners, and since it was a very very old school, they had a traditional oven and baking system. Every evening when we walk through the corridors of the school we could smell the freshly baked bread. But later in life always always when I smell fresh baked bread, it takes me to that lovely cozy school corridors of sprouting teenage dreams and blooming friendships!! Thankyou for sharing!

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  14. Great photos of the bread making machine. I love my Kitchen Aid mixer. I also love home made bread and am reminded of my mother who made bread. In fact, I didn't have store bought bread until I was in my teens. I think I could easily survive with nothing else but homemade bread. Yours looks wonderful!

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  15. Baking bread is the best on so many levels! Your bread looks great!

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  16. For a baker, the mixer really holds endless opportunities. There is nothing that compares to the smell of homemade goodness in the oven!

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  17. Patti - That mixmaster looks industrial-grade! I am envious of your baking prowess and love to ready about it. Even the pictures are comforting.

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  18. YUM!! I wanna come over to your house! that freshly baked bread smell is the best!

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  19. I love baking. You can make so many different things from just flour, water and yeast. When you add sugar or butter, those possibilities multiply even more. :)

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  20. That is a beautiful KitchenAid! Fresh baked bread is amazing and nothing compares to that smell. So many possibilities!

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  32. Yum! I grew up on homemade bread and just once wanted Wonderbread! Silly children!!

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  33. Thanx for sharing memories with us. I make most of my bread too.

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  34. I love bread! How wonderful you make your own. I think you are right on here, food is another art form for sure when you are creating from scratch:)

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  35. I want to come to your house to live. I love to cook but baking bread is beyond me these days.

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  36. Homemade Bread! Nothing else to say! :)

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