The Splendid Table: Locavore Nation

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Margaret Hochla
El Reno, Oklahoma

I have been married for 27 years to Victor and have 4 children. The two girls and two boys range in age from 25-10 years. We are pleased to still have one grandparent from each side of the family ... More about Margaret

Sareen Dunleavy-Keenan
Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live in Minneapolis, in 1.5 story craftsman bungalow with beautiful woodwork, but a tiny lot. Sharing this space is my husband Brendan, 'baby' (5/07) and 'new baby' who is expected to join the fold in August. More about Sareen

Gina Keenan-Klages
Eau Claire, Wisconsin

My name is Gina, and my husband's name is Patrick. We have three children, ranging in ages from 1 to 5 years. Our household also includes my mother, who is living with us from September to May. More about Gina

Donna McClurkan
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Early January may seem an inauspicious time to begin an "eat local" project in Southwest Michigan. As if to underscore that point, nearly a foot of snow fell in Kalamazoo on January 3. More about Donna

Cher Stuewe-Portnoff
St Louis, Missouri

My first father-in-law taught me to garden in the mid-1960s. Over the next few years, with a family of five to feed, I read everything I could find about nutrition ... More about Cher

Vera Schabicki
Ashland, Mississippi

Four years ago my five children, one husband, two dogs, one cat and I moved to the rural South from a large northern California city. We went from .12 acres to a rambling 57 acres. More about Vera

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Blessed are the... bread makers?

Posted at 11:47 AM on April 18, 2008 by Sareen Dunleavy Keenan (2 Comments)

I keep reading about these people making bread. I mean, Vera talks about making bread every day. Every time I read that I think, "good for her" or something equally non-committal. I mean who really has time to make bread daily?

All of that disbelief was until I took up the bread recipe that I am sure you have already heard about. This is a no kneed bread from the New York Times. This recipe has been recommended to me more than once, so I understand if you don't take up making it the first time. But trust me, nothing can be easier or look more impressive. This was actually easier than the dreaded bread machine collecting dust in my basement.

Add flour, yeast, water and mix. Wait for 18 hours. Fold twice, wait 2 hours. Bake. After all of that exhausting work you get:

I had to bake mine at work because I could not wait any longer to try it. Now I have an entire host of new friends interested in trying the bread. I don't think it will even make it home for the husband to eat. Guess I will just have to slave over another loaf. Too bad! Thanks for everyone who kept telling me to make this bread, it goes well with my $5.00 butter.

Hmm.. I have the time to make bread every day (I'm a grad student!) but I don't have the appetite. Making bread the 'old fashioned way' doesn't actually require that much effort, and to me it's worth having the finished product the same evening that you start to make it.

YMMV, as they say.

Your loaf looks delish, by the way!

Posted by skiddie | April 20, 2008 5:51 PM

I have found the waiting bit to be a huge hindrance when I crave the bread pronto. But, with my minuscule attention span, I am sure that even making it the traditional way wouldn't satisfy my instant hankering for warm bread.

I plan to migrate into real bread someday soon. For now, Fresh bread will be rolling out Thursday and Sunday. I have people coming over and it looks too darn nice to muck with anything new at this point! Any bread recipe you can't live without?

Posted by Sareen | April 22, 2008 5:03 PM

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