Yesterday when I got up, I knew that I would not step out of the door to go to the supermarket. I looked in my cupboards and saw that I had enough flour to bake bread and took my shiny new bread maker off the shelf. Adding all of the ingredients to the baking tin, I selected the relevant choices on the programme and pressed the start button. A few hours later, the smell of freshly baked bread permeated our apartment.
Once the bread had cooled for a while, sat down eagerly for a simple lunch: warm bread with butter and some cheese. Delicious!
Do you enjoy eating freshly baked bread?
© Colline Kook-Chun, 2014
(This post is linked to Paula’s Black & White Sunday)
That is my kind of comfort food. It looks soooooo good, Colline.
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Oh it was Gemma. My daughter wants me to try make the next loaf with chocolate chips in (she loves anything chocolaty) 🙂
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I’m a raisin girl myself. Still. Chocolate. YUM!
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YUMMMMMM!!!
I haven’t taken on the bread challenge yet…waiting on the yeast and bread to rise…I am so not patient 😦
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That is what is so easy with the bread maker. You put all the ingredients in and the machine does the rest: mixing, timing, etc. All I need to make sure of is that I put it in 4 hours before I want to eat it 🙂
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Since you put it that way…I should look into it!!!!
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Was it still warm while you were cutting it? Mmmm – delicious looking. I’ll have a slice. Thank you, Colline 🙂
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Most definitely! That is the best thing about freshly baked bread 🙂
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I made bread from scratch for the first time last week! Surprisingly easy (no bread maker…) and Sooo tasty!! I’ll definitely incorporate it into my routine.
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I have never tried without the bread maker – and never dared. Well done to you Annie for doing so 🙂
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Yes, very much do I love this with just a little honey!! Great photo and post!
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Oooh, honey! I need to remember that next time 🙂
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I started making my own bread a couple of years ago – it’s totally unrecognisable from supermarket stuff! I’m trying to branch into other bread now – I have some brioche buns proving now! Yours looks delicious – what kind of bread maker do you have?
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I got a Cuisinart and I really like it – better, I think, than the One I had before. I have made both white and brown bread. My husband wants me to try make raisin bread next – and there is a cinnamon tasting bread in the recipe book 🙂
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Now I’m hungry for freshly baked bread.
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Certainly something I could never resist 🙂
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Looks Yummy!
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It certainly was 🙂
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I enjoy freshly baked bread and bake my own gluten-free bread every week (because I’m a coeliac). You can buy gluten-free breads these days, but they’re nowhere near tasty. Besides, they’re also extremely expensive.
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What type of flour do you use to make it gluten-free?
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Nothing can beat the smell of freshly baked bread!
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My daughter would say that chocolate cake does 😀
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Oh, that looks so good! There is nothing like freshly baked bread. It makes the whole house smell wonderful. 🙂
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I love the smell too. It definitely gets the taste buds going 🙂
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Oh yum! My mom used to bake from scratch. Such a happy memory. I’m salivating now, 😉
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You must have eaten many baked delights when you were growing up. Definitely more of a treat than the shop-bought goods.
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My mom was never much of a cook and hers was the era of frozen dinners and fried fish sticks. But each year at easter she would bake fresh bread and rolls in celebration of the holiday and it was like heaven on earth. So YES, I LOVE fresh bread!!!
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What a lovely memory to have of Easter.
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Love the b&w photo. I can smell it , delicious
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We had begun eating the bread and I could not resist taking a photo. Thought I would give it a try in b&w 🙂
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Very good try. Happens with me also. Finished eating and no photo to remember! This evening I cooked Maori potatoes. After the meal I told my student: We forgot the photo! She takes photos and sends it home to her parents
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You have intrigued me Scrapy. What are Maori potatoes? I want to see 🙂
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Ha ha, it is a NZ potato. Dark purple skin and you get ones that are purple inside, some have purple blotches with potato color in between. I still have some cooked ones and will photograph them tomorrow and post it
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I will look out for them 🙂
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😀
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yummy indeed!
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Yummy enough that I will make it again 🙂
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One of my favorite comfort foods. Sadly, though, I gave up my bread maker and bread to cut down on carbs. Probably two of the more foolish things I’ve done, especially since I still eat rice!
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I would find it hard to cut down on bread – and even rice – as I eat both everyday.
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mouth watering post!
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Thank you. It was delicious 🙂
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One of the best investments I ever made Colline.
Nothing like the aroma as it bakes, sometimes its hard to wait for it to cool.
Regards
Emu aka Ian
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I can only agree with you there. We never seem to wait longer than fifteen minutes 🙂
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Lovely story that has made me very hungry and wishing for fresh baked bread.
I was lucky enough to have a room mate who baked bread for the house. The smell would draw us all out of our various rooms from attic down to the basement kitchen. We were never trusted to wait for the bread to cool after baking; he started baking a special loaf that we were allowed to destroy. Some one would get the better, and another would “cut” the hot bread into something resembling slices, sort of. The house would still smell like fresh bread in the morning — especially since my room was in at the top of the house.
Thanks for bring back those wonderful memories.
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He was very clever baking two loaves. Freshly baked bread is a hard thing to resist 🙂
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The smell of freshly baked bread will make me hungry every time, and wonder if I should search for a knife and butter!
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The perfect way to eat freshly made bread – with plenty of butter 🙂
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