Nothing is more wonderful
updated on 06-19-2007
I do not believe there is anything more wonderful in this world than being in love with someone who so completely understands you and your wants or needs. My biggest blessing in life is to be married to a man that completes my heart, understands what each one of my expressions means, anticipates my needs, kisses away my frustrations, appreciates me entirely for who I am (good and bad), and he desires always to fulfill my desires. Shauna is not the only one living a great love story!
This is my beautiful, fresh, hot bread with butter…. yyyuuummmmm!
My incredible husband bought me an awesome birthday present - which shipped a bit earlier than he expected and so he gave it to me before my July birthday. (oh, well - my benefit) You see one of my constant frustrations has been that I like bread and I have 2 hand-me-down, gently-used breadmakers in which I have been attempting to make GF bread. No luck. Overcooked, tough, burnt, crumbs…. that is the GF bread they produce. I gave up in sheer frustration at some point and decided to accept the $5+ per-loaf price for store-bought GF bread at our local organic market. Well, in all of his thoughtfulness my darling man decided my need-to-create-thru-cooking should not be cut off from good, fresh GF bread. He did research on different machines, pricing, read reviews, etc. And in the end he bought me the Breadman 2-pound Breakmaker with a Gluten-Free cycle - woohoo!
He gave it to me on Friday night and after rummaging thru my cabinets I came up with a bread mix that I wanted to try out on my brand-new machine. But… I had to wait until Saturday morning because we were going to the Silver Surfer movie and I wanted to be able to monitor the progress of my first creation carefully during each step of its journey.
Here is my husband’s peanut butter and jelly sandwich that he eagerly made with the fresh bread.
Saturday morning dawned bright and after we got up I immediately set about with my GF Pantry French Bread & Pizza Mix in hand and a hum in my heart. Less than 1.5 hours later I had hot, yummy, yeasty, GF bread - tada! I will post a few pictures of me buttering beautiful hot pieces of bread, and my husband made himself a quick peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We both really liked the hot, fresh bread. My next challenge will be to create a consistent recipe using flax seeds so that I can add fiber to the bread. Since husband is diabetic, a lot of the GF flours create a spike in his sugar because they have a high GI (glycemic impact, which is more important than the glycemic index number some foods have…).
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June 19th, 2007 at 10:10 am
wow, a gluten-free cycle on the breadman?! that is terrific! i am checking it now… enjoy it, you deserve it!
July 26th, 2007 at 9:45 am
[...] Let’s look back at one of my favorite posts recently where my delightful hubby splurged on a GF breadmaker for me. (Isn’t he the best??!?!) Part of that purchase included some Bob’s Mill GF Bread Mix - not just any mix, mind you. It was the GF Hearty Whole Grain Bread Mix and WOW you will enjoy this bread. My husband greatly desired that I make homemade-ish bread that we could both eat and enjoy. This bread actually tastes great and has the hearty goodness of a traditional whole grain bread. Best of all, it does not appear to spike hubby’s blood sugar - which is important for all those diabetics out there. [...]