James suggested at Wednesday's band meeting that I start a "Craig's recipe corner" column on our blog. That sounds cool to me. Here is my first entry in CRAIG'S RECIPE CORNER!! coOOOLLL
Most of the things I make are pretty DIY*. Sometimes my dishes contain absurd combinations of foods such as stir fry + Worcestershire sauce (a college staple) or boiled eggs + peas + spaghetti all mixed together (a recent favorite, which I have also passed along to my younger brother). This is probably due to my years spent in the Canadian wilderness when food was scarce and we had to make do with what we had. Boy, do I remember the hard times during the rice famine of '98...
Since my diet consists mostly of bananas (4-5 bananas/day) and bread (3-4 slices/day) I'm going to start my column with a nice BREAD RECIPE. This recipe involves the use of a BREAD MACHINE which can be found growing in abundance in the South Ontarioan brush which is why we never have to buy bread up there. Just put a piece of bark covered in sap in between two slices of home-made bread and you've got yourself a sweet bark sandwich!
If you can't find a BREAD MACHINE growing in your local garden, then you can buy one from Amazon.com. My machine is an Oster 5838 ExpressBake Breadmaker. I've had it for about four years and have had to replace the bread tin once. This thing is pretty much running on it's last legs now since the gears aren't turning right anymore and it makes a really bizarre metally smell after the bread's been baking for about an hour and a half. But other than that, it's great. We're talking about a bread machine that has made 1-2 loaves of bread a week for four years. I will probably ask my mom for another one this Christmas.
The magic of bread machines is that YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO MAKE THE BREAD! All you have to do is stick the ingredients you want in the bread tin, press a button, and it does everything for you: I'm talking mixing, kneading, baking, etc. Truly amazing.
Bread machine comes with recipes for making bread but I have a SUPER RECIPE that is also really healthy and tastes awesome. Here it is below.
3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 cup of water
1/3 cup of powdered milk**
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
5 tablespoons of wheat germ
1 cup of oatmeal
1 cup of wheat flour
2 cups of white flour
6 tablespoons of flax seeds
1 teaspoon of yeast
I've made this loaf more than a hundred times, easy. This is a one-way ticket to Tasty City. And it will come out the other end real easy since you've put so many flax seeds in it. Yee-haw! If you want to make it even healthier then only put in wheat flour instead of white flour! I even crushed Vitamin C and Magnesium tablets and put them in there for a while, before I realized I was going too far.
Now, one last thing, I highly recommend you buy your yeast from Amazon.com, not from your local grocery store! Trust me, your local grocery store will rip you off like crazy. Just go for either the 1 lb of Fleishmanns Yeast or 2 lbs of Red Star yeast. Even 1 lb of yeast can make around 100 loaves of bread.
Most of the things I make are pretty DIY*. Sometimes my dishes contain absurd combinations of foods such as stir fry + Worcestershire sauce (a college staple) or boiled eggs + peas + spaghetti all mixed together (a recent favorite, which I have also passed along to my younger brother). This is probably due to my years spent in the Canadian wilderness when food was scarce and we had to make do with what we had. Boy, do I remember the hard times during the rice famine of '98...
Since my diet consists mostly of bananas (4-5 bananas/day) and bread (3-4 slices/day) I'm going to start my column with a nice BREAD RECIPE. This recipe involves the use of a BREAD MACHINE which can be found growing in abundance in the South Ontarioan brush which is why we never have to buy bread up there. Just put a piece of bark covered in sap in between two slices of home-made bread and you've got yourself a sweet bark sandwich!
If you can't find a BREAD MACHINE growing in your local garden, then you can buy one from Amazon.com. My machine is an Oster 5838 ExpressBake Breadmaker. I've had it for about four years and have had to replace the bread tin once. This thing is pretty much running on it's last legs now since the gears aren't turning right anymore and it makes a really bizarre metally smell after the bread's been baking for about an hour and a half. But other than that, it's great. We're talking about a bread machine that has made 1-2 loaves of bread a week for four years. I will probably ask my mom for another one this Christmas.
The magic of bread machines is that YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO MAKE THE BREAD! All you have to do is stick the ingredients you want in the bread tin, press a button, and it does everything for you: I'm talking mixing, kneading, baking, etc. Truly amazing.
Bread machine comes with recipes for making bread but I have a SUPER RECIPE that is also really healthy and tastes awesome. Here it is below.
~~~~~CRAIG'S TASTY BREAD RECIPE~~~~~
3 eggs3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
1 cup of water
1/3 cup of powdered milk**
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
5 tablespoons of wheat germ
1 cup of oatmeal
1 cup of wheat flour
2 cups of white flour
6 tablespoons of flax seeds
1 teaspoon of yeast
I've made this loaf more than a hundred times, easy. This is a one-way ticket to Tasty City. And it will come out the other end real easy since you've put so many flax seeds in it. Yee-haw! If you want to make it even healthier then only put in wheat flour instead of white flour! I even crushed Vitamin C and Magnesium tablets and put them in there for a while, before I realized I was going too far.
Now, one last thing, I highly recommend you buy your yeast from Amazon.com, not from your local grocery store! Trust me, your local grocery store will rip you off like crazy. Just go for either the 1 lb of Fleishmanns Yeast or 2 lbs of Red Star yeast. Even 1 lb of yeast can make around 100 loaves of bread.
*All you other people who make food, your food is NOT DIY! it's DIYBWC ie. "do-it-yourself-but-with-cookbook". Oh please.
**If you don't have or don't want to buy powdered milk, you can take that out and use 1 cup of any kind of milk instead of the 1 cup of water.
***Oh yes, in other news, here is an interview with the band on the Muzzle of Bees music blog if you haven't seen it yet.
**If you don't have or don't want to buy powdered milk, you can take that out and use 1 cup of any kind of milk instead of the 1 cup of water.
***Oh yes, in other news, here is an interview with the band on the Muzzle of Bees music blog if you haven't seen it yet.
1 comment:
isn't this DIYBWBM?* If you don't knead it yourself, I don't think it's DIY.
*do-it-yourself-but-with-bread-machine
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