Here's why bread is bad for you.

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carnivore

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As i mentioned in an earlier post, I've been really enjoying making bread from scratch lately, but I found a reason why it's bad for your health:
I made 2 loaves about a week ago and the half-loaf i had left was getting hard and stale. So being the frugal person i am, I broke up the bread, chucked the pieces into a food processor, and stuck the bread crumbs into a ziploc bag in my cabinet. Now I will be finding things to fry so that I can use up my bread crumbs!
obviously they have bread in the wrong category in the food pyramid :P
 
Yep, and when you start making that sourdough bread from a starter and it makes 3 loaves every 3 days you think you have to eat a loaf a day......... But you have found a very good use for the left-overs - also, try these for croutons,

Mix some olive oil (about 1/2 cup), and about 1 tsp. each dried basil, oregano, parsley, tarragon, and whatever sweet herbs you like, garlic powder, about 1 tsp. or more of kosher salt and some pepper.

Cut your bread into pretty big croutons, toss with the oil mixture, put in 375° oven (tossing several times to turn over) until dried out and a golden color.

Use on salads or just eat!
 
Carnivore, I find the local birds love those bread crumbs, too.

Problem with homemade bread is that it dries out too quickly. With Jjust BW and I here, I have taken to prepare one 2 cup loaf at a time. Lasts us three or four days - "us" tending to include the birds on the fourth day.

As 'Elf mentioned, sourdough cqan enslave you - except that there's an easy way out: good ol' refrigeration halts the fermentation until you're ready to use it again. But I just plan for sourdough a few days ahead of time and then use all the starter at one time.

I find bread making consumes so little time - popular opinion to the contrary - that I don't mind making it a couple of times a week. Roughly 20 minutes of actual involvement - the rest of the time is rising and baking time. BW whips up pies during TV commercials in the evening - I've begun doing the same with bread making. (That ten-minutes of kneading does not have to be done all at once, I find.)
 
Hate to tell ya this...stale bread makes stale bread crumbs...

But hey, if you don't mind, neither do I :)
 
Oh absolutely! I use hard bread to throw at people when I want them out of my kitchen, and makes a great surrogate basketball when I'm making hoop shots with the trash can...

Kidding...I throw old fruit at em'..got too much respect for bread!

Happy Baking :)
 
LOL - nothing like a rotten orange to send someone scurrying out of the kitchen!! Actually, it's a good reason to not go IN the kitchen!! :D

I was thinking more along the lines of say...Panzanella ;)
 
Wooohoo! Throwing food items! Give me mushy tomatoes and that onion in the bottom of the box that looks like it was grown in a waste dump!
 
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