Can you believe that F has baked bread every weekend since Mother’s Day? If you’re in the market, by the way, I would highly recommend a spouse who wants to bake bread every weekend. If, say, you find someone and they’re on a no-carb diet? I would strongly steer you towards therapy, separation, even divorce. Definitely the silent treatment.
This weekend, F baked a couple of old-fashioned white loaves and Otis insisted on helping out. F showed him how to knead his own piece of dough, though he mostly just pinched at it – though in his own immortal words, with accompanying hand gestures, “I punched it! I pinched it! I punched it!” Finally, F shaped it into a tiny little loaf and baked it for him. He was quite pleased with himself.
I personally believe that there is no better way to treat a fresh baked loaf of bread than to cut off a thick slice and slather it with peanut butter and really good honey, and Otis has come to believe the same. It’s become a ritual in our house to usher in the day after bread baking day with our own thick slices, and this past weekend, Otis had the pleasure of eating 4 tiny slices from his miniature loaf of bread, 2 with peanut butter and honey, 2 with peanut butter and jelly. He giggled with pleasure and really, who can blame him?
06.24.09 at 12.04 pm
Hmm, the smell of freshly baked bread! Otis’ little loaf is so cute and I can imagine he had a great time eating it!
06.30.09 at 2.18 pm
Your little boy is adorable and his loaf of bread looks perfect! He looks very pleased with himself. I haven’t baked bread with my little ones in awhile – we used to use a simple dough and let them shape them however they wanted – this inspires me to try doing that again.
07.12.09 at 4.48 pm
So sweet… and what F loved with his small loaf of bread as a kid was *butter.* I told him I was surprised he hadn’t recommended that to Otis, but he says honey butter is an improvement even on his seemingly perfect combination.
can’t wait to see you all.
love,
K