The options were to 1) go without and use the tortillas we have on hand for quesadillas, wraps, and such 2)buy cheap bread (bleh!), 3)buy the good stuff and use up a good portion of our budget, or 4) make our own.
Since every frugal website or book I've ever read highly recommended homemade bread for frugality and control over ingredients, I gave it a shot.
No portions of that bread have been altered for publication. That is the way it came out of the breadmaker. The breadmaker,people!
Sadly, it tastes as good as it looks. The ultimate confirmation of its inedibility was the fact that neither Scout (the bagel-nomming kitteh) nor the dogs even attempted to grab a piece off the counter all morning.
The biggest hindrance to our overall frugality is going to be my home economic skills.
5 comments:
You are funny. I just don't know how else to say it. I like your marketing techniques on your online garage sale. I almost want to buy some things, but I am also very frugal, so I can't.
You can make really good french toast with that church bread... especially when you slice it really thick and let it get a little more stale.
Thanks! That makes me all warm and fuzzy since your blog is one of my favorites (I just haven't updated my link list since I discovered it via move-me.)
I will definitely give french toast a try.
That has got to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. The thing that makes it SO much funnier is that I've all but given up on homemade bread... after multiple results including bricks, and gummy gooey messes. I WANT to be a domestic goddess, but so far no go.
My father-in-law loves his breadmaker and apparently makes very good bread. I wish Joe had gotten that gene.
I come by my domestic non-goddessness honestly. My mom put the same zipper in a skirt backwards three times in her high school home ec class and more often than not burns the pot in which she was boiling eggs. :p (Joe is in charge of boiling eggs in our household, just in case. :-) )
oh man! It looks a bit like a volcano in the exploding process :P See I've been pondering about what making bread at home might be/taste like. But I'm afraid that with my immense cookery skills, I'll come up with the same ;)
btw Perry and Marco say hi! I'm sure Marco might have attempted nomming that bread, he's a carboholic...
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