So, what's your favorite food? Come on. I wanna know. Please?
Anyway, mine is bread. Basically any kind of bread. Though I love focaccia, especially with rosemary, seasalt, and fresh ground black pepper on it. Mmmmmmm.
The kids in my Culinary Arts class figured that out and would kinda make fun of me about it (which makes zero sense to me, but whatevs). So, I got to eat a lot of tasty breads when I was in the class and I got to bake a bunch, too. Whenever we were assigned some baking thing to do lots of people wanted to be in my group. lol.
That's not the point, though. Point is fresh baked bread really is a comfort food. Also, baking bread is therapeutic.
First, you get to beat something up, which can be very nice.
Second, you get to smell the lovely aroma of the bread as it rises and then while it's baking.
And third, you get to devour it after all your hard work.
I had a yucky day two days ago. Actually, I've had a yucky couple of weeks. So today I decided to cook. All day.
I started out making a huge batch of mashed potatoes (another of my favorite foods and a comfort one. Hm. I wonder why... xP) because we had 7 or so pounds of russet potatoes we simply had to do something with because it is just criminal to let potatoes go to waste.
In the middle of my train of thought I am saying something entirely unrelated.
I am way super dizzy right now. Whoa. Think I need to finish typing soon because I'm about to fall out of my chair. @.@ Not cool.
Anywho, after the potatoes I went to WallMart for some bread flour, yeast and boxed mac and cheese (I'm gonna be lazy later. lol). I made the bread dough which was super fun cuz I got to knead it for 10 minutes. Yay! lol. Then I let it rise for an hour. I just punched it down and put it in the fridge. By the time I'm done typing this (hopefully I won't be dizzy anymore...) I should be able to shape the dough into little blobs to rise a second time which I will then bake into little individual blobular roll things.
While they are baking I'm going to slice, season and sautee some beef which I will then mix into some mac and cheese that has been doctored with a little extra milk and some Velveeta to make it semi soupy. Then I'm going to empty out the little loaves into bread bowls and serve the mac and cheese in it to my family for dinner with some corn or green beans. Haven't decided.
I haven't baked bread in a while so I'm really happy right now.
Maybe you can tell me what your favorite food is after the room stops spinning.
