Had it with the Food Channel...

[Daisy and Delilah]

I made some olive and pepperoni bread and it was good.

Get the pizza dough mix - I can't remember the name of it!-and follow the directions.

I made peanut butter cookie-from a box and three loaves of bread in the last week.


For the first two loaves the yeast was too old.

I took the 'experiments' and make bread crumbs with one, and croutons with the other...

The last loaf I made, with newer yeast, and came up with a dense sweet bread.

I followed the Amish bread recipe and it worked very well, I think will take some herbs nicely.

I am going to make another 'test' loaves as it cools down today. I'll post the recipes later on.

Thanks, Richard!! Always helping me out. I think you have cooked everything on the planet.

[RICHARD]

I added some dried basil into the mix and sprinkled some sea salt across the top before I baked it.


It was good, still need to add more basil....

I was thinking of ways to keep it from being a 'sweet bread'- Onion flakes?

[cassiesmom]

Is anyone into "Iron Chef America"? If you see (or have seen) the one airing this week with Paul Virant, where the secret ingredient is pheasant -- He's from Chicago and his restaurant, Vie, is 5 minutes' drive from my house! And it's terrific! He is recreating his menu prepared on the show this week for $85. He lost to Morimoto by one point. (For those of you in Chicago, it's in Western Springs, on Lawn and Burlington, next door to the post office, half a block south of True Value Hardware and the BNSF Western Springs station ) www.vierestaurant.com