Bread Tales

Bread come in all shapes and sizes, white or brown, whichever takes your fancy, and has become a kind of a hobby with me ever since I started experimenting for my Hive blogs. Much of my inspiration comes from Granny Google, but I'm not very obedient as I don't stick to recipes, and so my imagination starts taking off.
My mother used to swear it was being left-handed that made me do things differently. She often used to shake her head, smile, and say I look so awkward with this left hand!

My favourite Wholewheat Bread, dusted with flour

Of course, I'm not one to strictly stick to recipes and often get the wildest ideas, but hubby doesn't mind, as he always gets to taste-test.

Crispy Breadsticks

Roosterkoek - literal translation BBQ Bread and a variation on the theme of - these are Roosterkoek breadsticks - cooked on the braai or BBQ as the rest of the world calls it!

A bread comedy

I never thought that bread baking would have me giggling like someone who'd lost all their marbles, till I innocently published my post Save the planet, Save pennies - Recycle, Upcycle, Repurpose and shared how one could bake bread in food cans. You can head on over there and see what @meesterboom saw, a very vivid imagination, but now has me giggling every time I look at the photo of my gorgeous little loaves!
I'm not even going to share that photo, you can see it in my recycling post and read the comments if you need a good laugh, something we all need to do more often in this crazy old world of ours, so thank you Mr Boom for that ;)

I will only share the tin bread pic while still in the pans, blush every time I look at the final product in that photo!

A cheese bread made with the extra dough; I'm not shy at showing that off!

Preparing the bread dough is vital to the success of your bread as it needs a good rise, so keep the following in mind:

Always knead it with love
Place in a warm place to rise
Knock it down gently and place it into a well-oiled baking pan
Leave it to rise again
Turn the oven on to about 180 C
When the dough has risen again, place the loaf into the hot oven. If the temperature is not right, your bake will flop
Same thing can happen if you open the open door while baking and your bread will be rock-hard and not very good for making sandwiches.
Enjoy the aroma of freshly baked bread, best eaten when hot and slathered with real butter; mouthwatering for sure!

I hope you will keep these simple steps in mind when baking your own bread next time ;)

Twisted Garlic & Herb butter Bread

Garlic & herb butter bread star

I've already shared some of my bread journey here on Hive; I could not show you all, as I found way too many for just one post and you can blame that on @jaybird's Steemit Sandwich Contest, and later on Silver Fish's BISS sandwich contest, but will share a couple more.

Bread in a cup - a microwave bread

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Bread art, something I really enjoyed.

Cheese Loaf

Honey & Oats Wholewheat Bread

One thing I still have not mastered is sourdough bread like Silver Flower makes, so guess what I always have to buy when we go anywhere near a good bakery ;)
These ones don't look pretty, but they sure taste good!

This was my mock sourdough bread, made by adding instant yeast to the sourdough starter, still did not have the right texture nor the taste of real sourdough bread.