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Why You Need to Stop Baking Bread by Caren White

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Baking bread is a way of life for me, not a hobby.   Not something to do just to pass the time.   I don’t eat store-bought bread.   I rarely eat prepared foods of any kind.   If you visited my kitchen, you would find food but nothing to eat because I only stock ingredients.   I do all of my own cooking and backing.   On Saturday nights, I don’t order pizza, I make it.   From scratch.   Including the crust.   I also grow my own popcorn, but that’s a topic for another day. You see, I am one of THOSE people.   You know the ones.   You offer them a plate of food and they look at it suspiciously asking “Is that organic?” I was to know what is in my food so I make it myself.   By the way, croutons? Make from my homemade bread.   Breading for fried chicken?   Made from my homemade bread.   Stuffing for the Thanksgiving turkey?   Made from my homemade bread.   So when you buy up all of the flour and leavening ingredients for the sake of pretty photos on your Instagram feed you are lite