Yum! Special treat for breakfast!

[Clipper]

Kathy is baking bread this morning, and that meant that I get that special treat that she prepares once in a while when she has bread dough available.

She fried some pizza fritte for breakfast, and it was pretty tasty with butter and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar.

I love it when she bakes bread. The first loaf out of the oven always gets sliced hot and I grab a couple slices slathered with Peter Pan. An even bigger treat comes later when we have garlic bread made with her home made bread with our spaghetti at supper time. I'm a very lucky man to have such a wonderful cook and baker as my very very significant other and soulmate. When she bakes bread it brings back memories of the late 70s when I lived in a bachelor apartment next door to the Salumeria market on James St. The exhaust fans from his kitchen were right below my bedroom window and on Sunday mornings the smell would waft through my window. My Sunday morning usually included going next door for the Sunday paper and a loaf of hot from the oven Italian bread to smear with peanut butter and have with my morning coffee.

[chris]

Your are one lucky SOG for sure. Does she have a bread machine or mixes all by hand herself. I have t play more with yeast so I don't feel intimidated. (for Babka)

[Clipper]

She has a bread machine Chris, but the only time she uses that is when we buy one of those no fuss mixes for herb bread or something. Her white bread is kneaded with the dough hook on her kitchenaide and a little bit by hand, and then baked in loaf pans. She normally bakes two or three loaves at a time. With no preservatives it only stays fresh in the freezer for a week or so, and out of the freezer for only a couple of days. It seldom lasts long enough to get stale, haha. It makes great toast and sandwiches and has much more flavor than the average store bought white bread.

The first loaf got sliced and I had my peanut butter on hot home made bread treat for lunch with a cup of coffee. The rest of that loaf is going to be sliced for garlic Texas toast to have with our macaroni goulash for supper.

You are 100% correct. I am spoiled rotten and she is definitely a keeper for sure. I'd be lost without her by my side in life.

[Clipper]

Here's another bread recipe that Kathy is going to try with some of the fresh local berries that she has sliced and frozen. Sounds delicious. The picture looks moist and yummy. She was going to bake it today, but we don't have applesauce, so she is making some applesauce tonight and will make the Strawberry Bread tomorrow. (There goes the apples that I bought to hint around for an apple pie!)

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I will try and remember to get back to ya and let ya know how it is when she gets around to making it. Most likely tomorrow afternoon.

[Clipper]

Wow Chris, when the berries come out up there, you have got to try the strawberry bread. Kathy made the applesauce and made the bread. I am eating a slice of it now with a cup of coffee and it is outstanding. Sweet, moist, you can taste the berries, and she added some walnuts to the recipe. It is really good. I know what I am having for breakfast tomorrow, hahaha.

[kit]

Kathy makes you fresh homemade Italian bread and you slather it with peanut butter? "Whattsa-matta-you?" You must be a mayonnaise face like me ;o)

But it sounds like Kathy makes her bread the good old-fashioned way like my mom did. It worked back then, and it still does, so there was no need to try and fix it. As Chris says, you're a lucky SOG to have Kathy make it for you.

Enjoy your breakfast.

[Clipper]

She makes just regular white bread on most occasions. She HAS made Italian bread and hard rolls. I never asked her what the difference was in baking it to make it crusty. The home made white bread is wonderful when it is hot and slathered with either peanut butter or just plain real creamery butter. Country Crock don't cut it, haha.

I had an 8:30 doctor's appointment this morning and when I got home she made french toast with the remainder of the first loaf, cut thick like Texas Toast and soaked in egg, half and half, vanilla, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon. Her french toast is almost like a bread pudding except it is in one piece and crispy on the outside, and soft and succulent in the middle.

I AM lucky to be blessed by her cooking on a daily basis.

A mayonnaise face? Yeppir, no doubt about it. French Canadian on Dad's side and French on Mom's side. LOL

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I love fried dough. The various parish festivals always have it.

[Clipper]

I absolutely love fried dough. You don't see much of it around here though. Funnel cakes such as what you see in Pennsylvania are more prevalent around here at festivals and fairs. I simply refuse to pay $3 for a mouth full of airy pancake batter drizzled in hot grease and dusted with powdered sugar.