Recipes

[mema67]

I love to cook and will try most anything but never have gotten into yeast breads. Would love to but all that I have baked, the next day seemed not so good to eat. Just the two of us so we can't eat all of it the day it is cooked. Guess I need a recipe that is good the second day also. Maybe I shy away because usually it takes so long for the different risings and I want "instant gratification" Would love to bake some as the cooler weather is coming on.

[qualitygal]

Funny to see this pop up again, since I have pumpkin bread in the oven right now and did banana bread already, and next is choc chip cookies that my son requested. Hub wants some of those too. LOL I love the scents today!!

[Nightowlz]

I was just looking at my post #8 above where I posted the Outback bread. It's not the recipe I used when I made it. It's probably just as good though since Antilope posted it. I have tried her Wonder Bread copycat recipe which is really good. Anyways here is the recipe I did use. It makes them in 8 smaller loaves like they actually serve at Outback instead of making a 2 lb loaf with the recipe above. I also did not add the optional caramel & I had to borrow instant coffee from my MIL when I made it. DH does not drink instant & I don't drink coffee. Next time I will use espresso powder. Thanks to the poster that posted this recipe.

Outback-steakhouse-honey-wheat-bread-for-the-machine

1 1/2 cup water, warmed
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup honey
2 cups bread flour
2 cups wheat flour
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons instant coffee
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 teaspoons yeast
1 teaspoon caramel color, optional
3 tablespoons cornmeal, for dusting

Place all of the ingredients in the bread machine and process on dough setting. The dough will be a little on the wet side and sticky, but if it seems too wet add more flour. When dough is done let it rise for 1 hour.

Remove from pan, punch down and divide into 8 portions. Form portions into tubular shaped loaves about 6-8 inches long and 2 inches wide. Sprinkle the entire surface of the loaves with cornmeal and place them on 2 cookie sheets. Cover and let rise for 1 hour.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes. Serve warm with whipped butter.

Just FYI- being the lazy slob I am, I just let it go in the machine, and it was good! I skipped the caramel color, as who has that laying around (actual cooks? heh) I also never have instant coffee in the house, so I used half water, half brewed coffee. I think next time I'll try 1/2 C water, 1/2 C brewed coffee, 1/2 C milk.

Let me know what you think, or what you change. I Q Too Much

[Nightowlz]

On 10/14/2014 qualitygal said:

Funny to see this pop up again, since I have pumpkin bread in the oven right now and did banana bread already, and next is choc chip cookies that my son requested. Hub wants some of those too. LOL I love the scents today!!

Yum!!! Need to make some pumpkin bread. It's that time of year. I was hungry for some this past weekend. Homemade chocolate chip cookie sounds good. I have not had one of those in years.

[BOYINTX]

mama kept me in the kitchen until i left home and I swore I would never lift a pan . After my second husband passed I was at a loss. I had to remember my childhood and mama.

I began to cook a little and in 13 years I am ok in the kitchen but it is not my favorit room in my home

[Nightowlz]

On 10/14/2014 BOYINTX said:

mama kept me in the kitchen until i left home and I swore I would never lift a pan . After my second husband passed I was at a loss. I had to remember my childhood and mama.

I began to cook a little and in 13 years I am ok in the kitchen but it is not my favorit room in my home

I was never in the kitchen with mom cooking. I had no clue how to cook when I got married 8 days after I turned 18. It was a lot of trial & error. DH & I both learned how to cook together. I don't care to be in the kitchen all the time but I'm in there more then I would like. I don't like to eat out as I feel my cooking is better then any restaurant around here plus we know what's in it. DH does a lot of cooking on the grill & smoker.

[BOYINTX]

On 10/14/2014 Nightowlz said:

On 10/14/2014 BOYINTX said:

mama kept me in the kitchen until i left home and I swore I would never lift a pan . After my second husband passed I was at a loss. I had to remember my childhood and mama.

I began to cook a little and in 13 years I am ok in the kitchen but it is not my favorit room in my home

I was never in the kitchen with mom cooking. I had no clue how to cook when I got married 8 days after I turned 18. It was a lot of trial & error. DH & I both learned how to cook together. I don't care to be in the kitchen all the time but I'm in there more then I would like. I don't like to eat out as I feel my cooking is better then any restaurant around here plus we know what's in it. DH does a lot of cooking on the grill & smoker.

I like to eat in at home .I do run and buy produce and simple things and only eat out once every now and then. I do dabble in treats all day.

[Poodlepet2]

I would like to recommend a fantastic book that Nightowlz turned me onto: It's called"Bread Machine Magic" by Linda Rehberg and Lois Conway......NO Bread machine needed, if you don't have one. As long as you are familiar with textures and the process of making bread, everybody can use this book. I have both volumes and they use easy to find ingredients. The recipes are written for three sizes, small, medium and large: I wish they gave the weight of the loaves, they don't. They have every category covered in addition to breads. They have rolls, sweet and savory,coffee cake, buns...you name it, they have it. I have a bread machine in our primary residence, but not at our weekend place. No problem! I have easily made bread there using a stand mixer and getting it done from start to finish in a little over three hours-about the time it takes for a machine. If you love bread and baking, these books are for you. Poodlepet

[denisemb]

On 10/14/2014 Poodlepet said: I would like to recommend a fantastic book that Nightowlz turned me onto: It's called"Bread Machine Magic" by Linda Rehberg and Lois Conway......NO Bread machine needed, if you don't have one. As long as you are familiar with textures and the process of making bread, everybody can use this book. I have both volumes and they use easy to find ingredients. The recipes are written for three sizes, small, medium and large: I wish they gave the weight of the loaves, they don't. They have every category covered in addition to breads. They have rolls, sweet and savory,coffee cake, buns...you name it, they have it. I have a bread machine in our primary residence, but not at our weekend place. No problem! I have easily made bread there using a stand mixer and getting it done from start to finish in a little over three hours-about the time it takes for a machine. If you love bread and baking, these books are for you. Poodlepet

Poodlepet, I just bought the revised version of this book and it claims the small is one lb., medium is 1-1/2 lb., and large is 2 lbs. (although they caution that not all 2 lb. loaf pans are created equal).

Have a bunch of pages already marked with post-its and copied some of the recipes above. Can't wait to zoom through my silly (but easy & good) bread mixes and make some real bread (have a mix called Diego's Jalapeno Cheese Bread going as I type...)

[Poodlepet2]

I missed that one on the weight, but in looking over the recipes, none of them seems to be huge, but they are manageable if you have a smaller stand mixer. I have a number of bread machine cookbooks, but these are rapidly becoming my favorite. Did you see the movie "Julie and Julia"? Maybe I will make this my new life's quest-make all of the recipes! (and I am sure , on that note, everybody is thinking "That woman needs to get a life") Poodlepet