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Easy Bread

Bread, the source of life. Well maybe not, but for those of us who can’t eat it, it feels a little like it is.

I haven’t eaten wheat (on purpose) for the better part of 25 years. And I still miss bread. Warm from the oven, crusty artisan style sourdough, or toasted sliced bread slathered with butter, pizza bread loaded with toppings, or even better, bread in the form of cinnamon rolls. Oy.

But I digress…

Even though I can’t enjoy eating it I do like to make bread.  But with work and all I often don’t have time. Recently I found this post on Pinterest that has awakened my inner bread baker. It’s so easy. And only takes minutes to prep, let it rest all afternoon if necessary and bake right before dinner. Yum! The fam loves it.

Flour, salt, yeast and water
Dough ball
Ready to rise on top of the wood stove
After 2.5 hours
Finished loaf!

Enjoyed breaking bread tonight. L’chaim!

Beach Shabbat Shalom

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Beach Shabbat Shalom
Candles in a can. We make do!

Lucky 13

I don’t know what all the fuss is about the number 13. It’s always been normal for me.

It warmed up and rained on all our fresh snow last night which made for an ice rink in our driveway and a one-way only hill.👇🏼 So we stayed home from service. Enjoying a relaxed start to our day. Hopefully catching up on much needed rest.

Since I fully stocked the kitchen yesterday I feel like making all the foods. Eating all the fruits. And making some sort of bougie NA, no added sugar drink. I’ve got grapefruit seltzer, grapefruits… Hmmm. Off to check Pinterest for recipes.

Here it is, fresh squeezed grapefruit, juice of half a lime, salted rim and grapefruit seltzer over ice. Tasty!

Cold sandwiches and leftovers for lunch.

Pizza for dinner.

Life is good.

Nothing better than the smell of….

First batch of bread.

First batch of bread.

Thing 1 wanted to make some bread. So she did… lots of it.

Fresh out of the oven, butter melted over the top, and honey drizzled over… oh yeah, it smells wonderful!

We’ll have challah bread all week…

Pan #2

Pan #2

Pan #3

Pan #3

Still more to go into the oven…

Ready to bake

Final 3 ready to bake

She’s quite the little bread baker.

The whole batch, 1 braid and 16 knots.

The whole batch, 1 braid and 16 knots.

Baking incorporates math, science, reading & comprehension and sometimes geography and/or social studies (depending on the type of baked goods and what we are studying at the time). This bread is challah and incorporates social studies (culture and religion) as well as math and science.

Challah is a loaf of yeast-risen egg bread that is traditionally eaten by Jews on Shabbat, on ceremonial occasions and during festival holidays. 

Baking is an interactive lesson for both the baker and the other students who get to enjoy (eat) the lesson!

Shabbat shalom!