Maremy's Blog

So, my bread recipe book arrived from Amazon arrived a few days. So far, I've made two different types of bread from it. The first bread I made was called "Herb and Crunch Wheat Bread". This one was basically just whole wheat bread with basil and thyme in it. The recipe also called for dry-roasted sunflower nuts but I left those out. It turned out to be quite delicious, not only for sandwiches but also for dipping into tzatziki (we had a couple friends over on Friday night for Rock Band and that was when we tried the bread with the tzatziki).

The second bread I made was (Jacki, you'll be happy about this! ;) ) banana bread. It also turned out really good! What we both liked about it was the banana flavour was not over-powering like it often is with store-bought bread and it was not overly sweet.

Both of us are very pleased with the bread machine! It was definitely well worth the money. I'm going to make more whole wheat bread tomorrow night. There's lots of recipes in this bought I picked up and I'm hoping to give more of them a try at some point. Here are a few I'd like to try soon:

• Pumpkin Seed Bread
• Mediterranean Herd Bread (Basically the same as the Herb and Crunch Wheat bread with the addition of oregano)
• Herbed Vinaigrette Bread
• Cinnamon Honey Wheat Bread
• Pumpernickel Bread
• Pumpkin Bread (very appropriate for this time of year!)
• Cranberry Whole Wheat Bread

Hmmm...sounds like I could be very busy with all that! ;) With Thanksgiving coming up this weekend, I might try to make some rolls as well.

In other news, we've been playing lots of Rock Band II (it was released a few weeks ago). It's a GREAT game! Guitar Hero: World Tour comes out in a few weeks, so we'll be picking up that as well. We've also done a bit of wedding planning, too. Nothing too detailed yet but we may have a date very soon!