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Food from scratch

Hypancistrus

Hypancistrus

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On Monday this week, I was inspired to bake bread. I was thinking about when my mom used to make it from scratch when I was a kid and I wanted to try it myself. I found a really good recipe on AllRecipe.com for Honey Wheat bread and after following the directions, ended up with three fantastic loafs of delicious honey wheat.

It kind of makes me wonder where the heck the phrase "best thing since sliced white bread" comes from, because this homemade bread is about 300 times better than the sliced white from the grocery.

I repeated the recipe today for another three loaves and may try and make it a weekly ritual. It's really not that hard... slightly time consuming, maybe 1 hour of prep in various stages and another 2 or so for rising, but while it is rising you can do other things.

Anyone else make any food from scratch?
 
I make a lot of food from scratch. Usually breads and desserts. I recently made bagels, which is a lot of fun. I'd have to say, my favorite thing to make from scratch is biscuits. I hate using the pre-made refrigerated biscuits, so I make my own. I also get most of my recipes from allrecipes.com or cooks.com, with the occasional foodnetwork.com. (That's where the biscuit recipe comes from, come to think of it.)

I'm also planning on making a loaf of sourdough bread soon, so I can do a bread bowl with spinach dip. I've been talking about doing Apple Fritters, which probably won't happen for a few weeks. I have a lot of things that I want to make, but can't make time for. Such is life! LOL
 
My aunt used to make the absolute best homemade bread in the universe. Like, routinely. I miss that bread so much...
 
I love making things from scratch....unfortunately I have very little practice in it because my parents don't like to go out and buy things for and they complain about how I make the kitchen a mess. So I'm a little messy.....but I enjoy doing it :p I like the Christmas dessert recipes we always make every year. Those are always a lot of fun. Once I get a good steady job I'll probably do a lot more cooking from scratch.
 
My mom and I love to make chicken and dumplings from scratch. Most of the time the chicken is fresh killed not store bought. It takes a while to make and the kids are covered in flour. But it's a lot of fun and oh so yummy.
 
Maybe it doesn't count cuz I use canned tomato sauce and don't actually make the pasta, but my lasagnas take a whole day to make: first the tomato/onion/ meat sauce cooks all day, then I build the lasagna with ricotta/mozzarella, lots of garlic,oregano and basil, then it gets baked. Mmmmm.
 
I love making bread. I have used the same sour dough starter for over twenty years now. It is one of the few things I took with me when we fled from hurricane Andrew. Good thing too because the house got toasted! I bought it north to IL as one of the few possessions I had left. Working with yeast is something that takes practice to get just right. It took a lot of tries to get my cinnamon sticky buns just right. Plenty of neighbors are happy I practice that recipe so often.:D
Terri
 
I would sure like to taste made-from-scratch pasta or dumplings some day...But I _have_ made the dough/wrappers for Chinese dumplings from scratch. Delicious!!
 
One of my favorite things to make is beef stew. Meat, potatoes, and carrots with some salt, pepper, and a handful of bouillon (sp?) cubes. Put in the slow cooker early in the morning for dinner that night. Mmmmm! :D
 
Hypancistrus said:
On Monday this week, I was inspired to bake bread. I was thinking about when my mom used to make it from scratch when I was a kid and I wanted to try it myself. I found a really good recipe on AllRecipe.com for Honey Wheat bread and after following the directions, ended up with three fantastic loafs of delicious honey wheat.

It kind of makes me wonder where the heck the phrase "best thing since sliced white bread" comes from, because this homemade bread is about 300 times better than the sliced white from the grocery.

I repeated the recipe today for another three loaves and may try and make it a weekly ritual. It's really not that hard... slightly time consuming, maybe 1 hour of prep in various stages and another 2 or so for rising, but while it is rising you can do other things.

Anyone else make any food from scratch?
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I love honey wheat bread and a honey,wheat oatmeal bread YUMMO.
Allrecipe.com is always a go to for me if I need ideas.

wade said:
My wife makes steak and mashed potatoes from scratch all the time.
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I'll being scratch mashed potatoes at the end of summer, groing our own spuds.

Calift said:
One of my aunts used to make the BEST friendship bread! It was more like a spice loaf than a true bread, but sooo good!
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Is the friendship bread with potato flakes? Yours sounds good can you share the recipe?

crackerhead said:
I love making bread. I have used the same sour dough starter for over twenty years now. It is one of the few things I took with me when we fled from hurricane Andrew. Good thing too because the house got toasted! I bought it north to IL as one of the few possessions I had left. Working with yeast is something that takes practice to get just right. It took a lot of tries to get my cinnamon sticky buns just right. Plenty of neighbors are happy I practice that recipe so often.:D
Terri
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Terri, I tried about four starters last year, a couple sponges and poule (sp)
I may try the starter using pineapple juice. Just not getting the start I really am happy with.
 
crackerhead said:
It took a lot of tries to get my cinnamon sticky buns just right. Plenty of neighbors are happy I practice that recipe so often.:D
Terri
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I think you just inspired me to make my own sticky buns. Or move.

I've been using this site for some time:
http://www.recipesource.com/
Someone started it as a student resource on the University of California at Berkeley's site in the 90s and they just kept dumping in recipes from other sites, now it has its own address.
 
Nanci said:
I would sure like to taste made-from-scratch pasta or dumplings some day...But I _have_ made the dough/wrappers for Chinese dumplings from scratch. Delicious!!
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Pasta is easy as pie, Nanci. You should do it.

I make our yogurt. Much cheaper and I like the flavor better.
 
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