Back to basics in the New Year!

HELLO 2013!

2013 is going to be the year that I get back to basics.  I want to learn how to make jam, pickle things, juice and more!  I want to become a Domestic Diva!

FIRST STEP...Bread Maker...CHECK!

My Bestie got a bread maker from her parents this year for Christmas.  Too bad she is not really into cooking.  I offered to buy it from her and she agreed!  It's a "Zojirushi Bread Machine - Home Bakery Supreme."  It says that it also makes pizza dough, jam and meatloaf!  I intend to make it all!

Bread batch one complete and my Hubby LOVED IT!  I tried Bob's Red Mill Potato Bread mix first because I didn't have any Vital Wheat Gluten.  It turned out pretty good but I learned from my first mistake.  Don't treat it like a RonCo.  No setting and forgetting.  I think it turned out a little hard on the outside because I started it before I went to bed and took it out in the AM.

 

 

Today, I went to a larger Raley's and found some Vital Wheat Gluten!  Picked up some OJ and cracked open a bottle of 'J' Champagne!  From scratch loaf in the Machine!  We'll see how it goes!  I think I'll spring a loaf on my In-Laws and Brother and Sister in-Law today!  

Domestic Diva here I come!