Seriously. Can't stop. I will say, that while my baking obsession has previously tended to cupcakes, and sweets, recently I've taken to things like baking my own bread. I can tell myself it's healthy. I'm currently making a 33% whole wheat and 50% white whole wheat sandwich loaves. And since I'm making them at home, I know exactly what's going in them- flour, some kind of fat(butter, olive oil- not at the same time), honey, yeast, salt, water. That's it. No weird preservative, nothing I can't pronounce. I know it's cheaper. One bag of flour- the ingredient that's by far the largest proportion (and I buy the good kind- I'm partial to King Arthur) is the same price as one loaf of decent sandwich bread. And one bag of flour makes at least 4 loaves. Even I can do that math.
I haven't completely stopped baking sweets though. I'm just trying to reserve them for special occasions. I.e.- someone else will eat the majority of them. Last weekend I made some amazing fresh peach cupcakes with a brown sugar cream cheese frosting for a friend's going away party (she's leaving Atlanta for the west coast- I felt these cupcakes were appropriately Georgian). Next up- car bomb cupcakes. Oh yah. You read that right.
On the exercise/workout note- Monday is the start of my triathlon training plan. Absolutely must get back into shape for the summer tri's I already signed up for. Expect more working out, less baking in the future.
My bread recipes have come from smittenkitchen.com and remedialeating.com
Cupcakes are from smittenkitchen.com
Oh, and they're awesome. Anyone can make these breads. It's really not scary or hard at all.
