Monday, April 8, 2013

Oatmeal Honey Wheat Buttermilk Bread

Whew - what a long name!  But such a yummy bread.
Over the last two years, I have really started to enjoy making my own bread.  From scratch, no bread machine.  I love bread and I love finding new bread recipes.  I know I haven't shared a lot of bread recipes with you, other than the puck biscuits, but you'll be starting to see quite a few more breads in the upcoming weeks.
Although this is my first true bread post, it's also my first foray into wheat breads.  Up until now, I have made only white breads.  This was my first time using wheat flour and making a "brown" bread.  I loved the addition of the oats.  They gave the bread a nice chewy flavor.  M was a huge fan of this one.  He prefers it now to my usual white breads as he says it is a denser bread and is better for sandwiches as it doesn't crumble.

Oatmeal Honey Wheat Buttermilk Bread
Adapted from Annie's Eats

Ingredients:
  • 1 1/2 cups rolled oats, divided
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1/4 cup room temperature water
  • 2 Tablespoons honey
  • 2 teaspoon instant yeast
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk* (room temperature)
  • 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoon salt
*Note if you do not have buttermilk, place 1 1/2 Tablespoons of lemon juice or vinegar in the bottom of a measuring glass, fill to the 1 1/2 cup line with regular milk.  Let sit at least five minutes

Directions:
Place 1 1/4 cups of the oats in a medium bowl and cover with the boiling water.  Stir well.  Let sit uncovered for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.


Using a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, mix the soaked oats, room temperature water, honey, yeast, buttermilk, olive oil, salt, and two coups of each flour.  Mix briefly on low speed, just until ingredients are combined. 

 Switch to the dough hook and add in the remaining 1/2 cup of each flour and knead on low speed for about 10 minutes.  The dough should be wet and cling to the hook.  


Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, turning once to coat.  Cover the bowl with with plastic wrap and let rise for one hour.

Turn the dough out on a floured work surface.  Press out air bubbles.  Roll into a log shape, tucking the ends together.  Put the log into an oiled loaf pan, pressing it out so it reaches all corners.  Left rise an additional 30 minutes, just until the dough rises above the edge of the pan.

Pre-heat the over to 375 degrees.  Bake the loaf for 1 hour (check after 45 minutes to test for done-ness).  Remove the load from the oven and transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely before slicing.
Enjoy!


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Sunday, April 7, 2013

What I did on Spring Break



Since my Headband tutorial, I haven't had much time for crafting due to school related stuff.  I've been knitting, but haven't finished anything that I can show you - yet :)
But since I was on spring break this week, I finally have some more fun craft projects to share!

Right before break I got an awesome shipment of new thread - which made me very excited!  Now I can sew with something other than white or black thread :)  Based on recommendations, I bought Gutterman thread - it was on sale at Joanne's for 40% off plus free shipping - score!



Here's a sneak peek of what I was up to this week
Made some dishcloths

Celebrated my first Easter with my husband

Made some new - DELICIOUS! - Cookies!

Baby Hats
Chicken Kabobs
Finished my prayer shawl!
Made some cards



I was sick one day and then over the weekend I went adventuring with M, so didn't have as much time to work on my craft projects as I would have liked... go figure. But I did get some things done and I can't wait to share them with you!

Over the weekend, I traveled to Illinois with Matt to see his boss's band re-unite.  (M's coworker really wants me to blog about this) They played for the 22nd anniversary on Saturday night.  It was kinda  long trip, but interesting.  I spent my Saturday afternoon sitting in a bar reading my book and knitting a chemo cap while they were setting up.

They weren't too bad, and the band had a lot of fun.  As M put it - a wedding band.  Which at least means they play some decent songs that I know. I got to dance some with a friend which made for a good night.  Just have to watch out for guys with long hair who tried to grab me! 
While it may not have been how I would have chose to spend my weekend, I did get to travel a bit for my spring break, and I got to spend time with M before his crazy month of work takes over.  It also makes for some good stories.  But I would not recommend five hour truck rides with three guys!  


Stay tuned the month of April for complete tutorials!

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Project 14

I was browsing through some linky parties and spotted this post from Momma's got it Together
Pinterest Challenge

I think this is an awesome idea!  Too often I sit around and pin millions of ideas, but often have a hard time converting them to reality.
I am so in on this idea.
I think I'm going to pick 14 craft/sewing projects to complete and 14 new recipes to try.  I'm going to leave a few blank right now, because I'm sure I'll stumble upon something that just screams to be made or tried, but by the end of June I'll have my full list up.
Stay tuned to check out my progress :)

Crafts
1. Little Girl Skirt - Finished on April 14th!  Read about it here!
2. Business Card/Gift Card holder - Finished on July 10th - Post is Up!
3. Crafting for a Cause - Pillowcase dress - Finished on April 22nd!  Blog post here!
4. Sewing Machine Pin Cushion - Finished on July 10th - Read about it here!
5. A Quiet Book - in the planning stages
6. Chapstick pouch
7. Bike Bag - Finished on July 3rd - Read about it here!
8. Pot Scrubbers
9. 2x4 Snowmen
10. Snoopy Ornaments
11. Hooded Towel - Finished September 10th! - Read about it HERE!
12. Maxi Skirt 
13. PJ pants/Capris
14. Menu Board

Recipes
1. Homemade Funfetti Cake
2. Soft Almond Sugar Cookies - Read about these HERE
3. Cheeseburger Pasta
4. Olive Garden Breadsticks
5. Strawberry Lemonade Slurpee
6. Crescent Rolls
7. Chewy Granola Bars
8. Sugar Cookie Bars - Made in June - read about them HERE
9. Oatmeal Rolls
10. Auntie Anne Pretzels
11. Root Beer Freeze 
12. French Dip Sandwiches 
13. Honey Beer Bread
14. Beef and Barley Soup

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Monday, April 1, 2013

March Update


So... I set some lofty goals at the beginning of the year (I still don't really want to call them resolutions... resolutions too often get broken. So... I set goals. I just happened to set them on Jan. 1st)
How am I doing?
Let's take a look.

1. Be active everyday - at least do something! I'm good about being active during the week and hitting the gym - the weekends, not so much. I'd like to change that.
I had high hopes that this month would finally be the month where I didn't miss a day.  But alas, no such luck.  Take a look - This month started out a little rough. I'm also still having a lot of problems with my hip hurting, so I'm trying to be gentle on myself, even though that's hard.  Most times I still run my three days a week anyways because I want to reach my 400 mile goal. 

2. Run 400 miles. I'm worried this might be too much of a stretch for me, considering I don't go much more than 3 miles ever (three times a week), but I can give it a try! I ran about 250 in 2012, so maybe I can be a little more consistent and up my mileage in 2013.
This month I ran 40.58 Miles!  My first month over 40 miles since I was in cross country in 2003!  Go me!
This brings my total 2013 mileage to 103.69/400 miles. Making slow but sure progress.  We're a quarter of the way through the year and I'm a quarter of the way to my goal -  YAY!

3. Run my first 5K since high school cross country.
Nope

4. Finish my prayer shawl for St. Mary's Hospital
I worked on this finally!  I got about five more inches done... getting super close! 

5. Knit 5 Chemo caps
1/5 completed

6. Finish one of my other UFO knitting projects
Didn't happen

7. Take two masters classes - I am very unmotivated about working towards my master's but I know I should be taking advantage of the tuition reimbursement at Connections Academy
This one may not happen. I didn't register for the class to start in March. I'm not motivated to take the class and worried about overbooking myself. I value the little free time that I do have!

8. Visit one new city or state
:) I visited 4 new places! I was in Ft. Lauderdale, San Juan Puerto Rico, St. Thomas USVI, and Half Moon Cay in February for our honeymoon.  

9. Be a better wife (I know, it's vague), but somedays I don't feel like I do that well in this area. Maybe I'm still getting the hang of it since I've only been married 2 1/2 months.
This last week - maybe not so much, the week before spring break was a busy one for me.  But otherwise, I've done ok.  I've been a good sport about multiple trips to Home Depot and Menards and Matt has been on a tool buying tear, so he's been a happy camper.  He's nearly got a complete woodshop in our basement. And he built some pretty sweet shelves in the middle of the month for all of our totes :)

10. Be kinder to myself. M keeps telling me that I'm too hard on myself and need to relax some and be nicer to myself and everything will be ok. We both know that being kind to yourself can be tough, but I want to try to make some improvements in this area.
Beginning of the month - total failure on this one.  I had a couple of rough days after a trip to the office.  5 1/2 hours in the car is too much thinking time for me!  Thankfull I have a really awesome husband who loves me and calms me down and helps me look at things better.  That, followed by a quiet weekend at home helped get me to feel a bit better and gave me some new perspective. 
Matt is really helpful in this area.  If I start to stress and worry to much, he helps me talk it out and slow down my thinking.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!  I hope you all have a wonderful day with your families!

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