What bread should look like... {image via}
Occasionally the recipes that I make flop – remember my comment about ALWAYS burning granola? I just don't post those pictures on Facebook or my blog...
Most of the time {like 97.54%*} I am a pretty good cook, baker, chef, whatever. I enjoy being in the kitchen and trying new recipes. I have spent countless hours working on making good food. I think enjoying what you do and spending a lot of time doing it goes a long way in how recipes turn out.
So. Yesterday. I attempted to make homemade bread. I thought I had found a fool-proof recipe. It had great tips on proofing the yeast. Yeah. It didn't work out so great. The dough didn't rise. I thought I would cook it anyway. It came out like a hard brick of dough. It didn't even make my house smell good.
Cue disappointment.
I suppose that, like with all things, this bread making thing is going to take practice. I really want my house to smell like fresh bread. I really want to take a loaf out of the oven and smother butter on it so that it melts and absorbs into the grain. I am sure that I can do it. But for now, bread is definitely not something I am good at making.
*Don't ask where I got my percentage on how often I make good things. It is a random number I chose to reflect that I generally make good things. There is no actual math that supports this arbitrary percentage.
