I Love Bread...

- Look at the texture of the bread! This is why I find that there is something "magical" about making bread! Yeast is amazing!!! Ok, I'm a science nerd.. haha

...I really do... and I also love my bread machine : ) can't wait until I get a kitchenaid mixer... but first I would have to build a kitchen of my dreams and then match my mixer to it! : ) jk.... I really just need a bigger kitchen all to myself first... maybe in grad school : D

The Challah Update....

Sigh... taking pictures of these = way too difficult.. so I gave up..... oh well.
- My 6 strands braided loaf while rising... I'm not even sure I did it correctly... whoops.



- I always wanted to try to make a bear loaf... here it is! pre-rise ... not so cute because the dough is not smooth due to the raisins/ broken raisin pieces... ( ooft look at the cookie sheet.. that's seen better days... HAHA eh the 6 strand loaf rose on a very beautiful new anolon cookie sheet though.. and came off the sheet SO easily... the bear one.. omg... my mom told me to take a picture of the bear b4 I tried to take it off because she was convinced it wouldn't come out in one piece...)


- Baked 5 strands loaf.. I can't even really tell the difference between this and a standard 3 strand loaf... I guess I didn't turn it on its side, but still, can you see the 5 strands?



- Poor Mr. Bear.... it has pimples! haha I kid... on a scale of 1-10 10 being really really cute ... I give this a 6 ... at least you can tell it's a bear... hm. and no one has yet to cut into him.. sigh ... he might dry out and get tossed in the trash! : /


- OK I cheated.. I used flash...... here's the 6 strand braided loaf , with an egg YOLK glaze... My mom likes to use egg yolks as the glaze for all pastries... iono if I like this one too much.. it's really bubbly and some of the cracks basically had a really mini omlette in it .. oh well.. this load is almost gone after one day...