As part of her awesomeness she has a large blog with a section devoted to cooking, baking, grilling pretty much all things kitchen. (She also has a cookbook).
I was very uber ambitious on Sunday afternoon, and thought... "Sure I can make some bread from scratch, no problem!"
I'm not going to tell you how it turns out just yet, you're going to have to wait in angst and find out...
Hi Guys! I have clean hands here, so I must not be really working yet...
This is Latin Teacher, he's the photographer for the first half of this. After he's done snapping some pictures, he'll sit down and twitter how he's loving married life, you know a young wife making him cinnamon bread while he's drinking beer and watching football.
I melted the butter with a cup of milk and added a packet of yeast (first time using "live" yeast, some reason it was kinda odd), let that sit for like 7 minutes
I put 1/3 of a cup of sugar with 2 large eggs, combine and waited for the butter to melt with the milk.
You're going to put the flour in with the sugar, egg, and butter/milk mixture in two sections... I just ended up putting it all in pretty close succession.
SO here is where most of the elbow work (and wrist... ouch) came into play, you mix and mix and mix for like 20 minutes (there is supposed to be a stand mixer instead of human hand, but mine was at my other house or boat or yacht or something). So you mix and mix until you just stop or give up or the dough has gotten the better of you.
So here I'm putting the dough into the glass bowl that has been in the Microwave with water, getting all warm for the dough to sit in for 2 hour... 2 hours... and rise. I didn't get any rising pictures, honestly because there wasn't much rising. (And I forgot) Oh and the salsa isn't part of this at all, I was just also trying to make dinner at the same time...
OK, other than hand mixing the dough, this was one of the most frustrating parts of the whole event. In the resicpie, PW doesn't mention anything about putting flour on the rolling pin, or the working serface or anything, so when I had to break it out I was a little worried...
Honestly I think this is the best looking this dough has looked yet!, It did kinda feel Pioneer Woman-ish at this point, because darn! That looks like there is a lot of potential with this bread (and the cinnamon and sugar for that reason)
So this looks like a little burrito with cinnamon and sugar, it was also really heavy!!Also, at this point you're supposed to let it sit and rise for another 45 minuntes, you'll see that after
::cough::
8 hours, there hadn't been much of a rise.
It didn't turn out quite to plan... or PW's (Pioneer Woman) picture, but I think with some more practice it might be a skill... Maybe...
The top started cracking and so I had to take a few bites, just to see if it was edible... you know.
