Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Loaf

I'm not sure why I had the desire to bake bread when I feel too sick to eat much of anything. Yesterday I think I was awake for all of about an hour and a half, today I am a little more awake. I managed to shuffle to the store to buy some missing ingredients and then threw this delicious loaf of "whole wheat soda bread with millet and currants" together from a recipe in the Veganomicon.
This is one of those recipes where you knead the dough as little as possible, which I always find difficult. It's a soda bread so if you handle the dough too much it loses its fluffy-ness. I think I got it right this time though.
I downed a piece slathered in soy margarine while watching the heavy snow fall. You know what makes my apartment the best ever? The bench on top of the rad in front of the giant living room window. ftw!
The millet gives this bread a lovely crunch and the currants impart a luxurious sweetness to the bread. Or something... Anyway, tasty and it didn't make my insides hurt too much. Yay!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

What kind of soy margarine? Earth Balance? Or is there something even better? (I kind of doubt it... Earth Balance is amazing)

Flightless Birds said...

yeah, I use Earth Balance.