This weekend, I created a big bread mystery at our house. I made a double batch of Honey Whole Wheat Bread, making two regular loaves and two Cinnamon Swirl Bread loaves. I failed to pay attention to the pans I put them each into, therefore, when I pulled them out of the oven, I had no idea which loaves were regular and which loaves were cinnamon swirl. (duh)
One of them, I could quickly label by (pardon me) sniffing it’s underside. The other still remains a mystery. Here’s hoping we figure it out before it’s time to make tuna sandwiches. ;)
This week is our official first week of school for this year. Books are ready, plans are made, boys are excited. I’ll share more about our schedule and curriculum in upcoming posts!
Here’s our menu for the week:
Sunday, July 31
Cinnamon swirl bread, peaches
Cheeseburger macaroni, green beans, grape tomatoes
Youth dinner at our friends’ house
Monday, August 1
Whole wheat cinnamon rolls, apple slices
Taco corn fritters, fruit smoothies
Cheesy beef and rice, stir fried zucchini and yellow squash
Tuesday, August 2
Chocolate chocolate chip muffins, applesauce
Meat and cheese burritos, carrots with ranch dip, pears
Lamb chops, baked potatoes, peas
Wednesday, August 3
Scrambled eggs with cheese, creamy orange cooler
BLTs, chips and salsa, cantaloupe
Grilled steak, creamy cole slaw, corn on the cob
Thursday, August 4
Pancake sausage muffins, blueberries
Black bean salsa with organic corn chips, watermelon
Alfredo sauce with pasta, steamed broccoli and carrots
Friday, August 5
Peanut butter honey toast, strawberry-peach slushies
Hamburgers on homemade whole wheat hamburger buns, corn on the cob, sweet peppers
Creamy mac and cheese, peas, fried okra
Saturday, August 6
Applesauce muffins, bananas
Homemade pizza, plums
Leftovers
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I’ve tried three times to make your Honey Whole Wheat Bread. Sadly, all three have been an utter failure. Yours look so beautiful, but mine are rocks. I’ve made bread before, so I’m not entirely new at this, but I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. I’m pretty sure it has to do with the yeast step. Mine will NOT bubble. I know the yeast is good, because I used the same yeast to make your soft pretzel recipe (BIG winner in our house!!) and they were perfect. Yeast bubbled up fine. But it doesn’t for the bread recipe. Any ideas? (Oh, and I do the mixing/kneading in my KitchenAid mixer…don’t know if that makes a difference.) Thanks!
I’m not sure what’s going on. If the yeast isn’t activating, then that’s for sure why the bread is turning out like rocks. Not sure why it isn’t getting bubbly though. Water too hot maybe?
Ha Ha! I’ve done that before, except usually I go all the way to the edge on my swirl fillings, so you can see it on the ends after baking.
Maybe next time you could sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on the cinnamon bread. It tastes good and you could tell the loaves apart. :)
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