I made bread!

I made bread!!! White bread!!! Real loafy white bread! I can't believe it actually turned out so well.

Now, I've been making bread for a while.. but it was of the no-knead variety. SUPER easy. Extremely delicious! I love no-knead bread, and I'm not going to stop making it EVER. But, I was at the grocery store a couple weeks ago and picked up another cruddy loaf of white sandwich bread with a sour look on my face. I'm so sick of buying this junk. It's nasty. It's full of junk, and we never even finish it! I hate throwing out soured, moldy partially eaten bread. It's such a waste! So, I said "I've been making my no-knead bread for a while now.. it's time. It's time to quite buying this junk and just bake a loaf of sandwich bread." And I'm so glad I did!! I really tried hard and I got such a great pay off!!!

Look at my little stand mixer ^^. Adding the water/yeast/sugar/flour.

I was freaking out a little right here... are mixers supposed to spin?! I still don't have an answer..

The dough after the first rise. (I forgot the pictures of kneading it...) I had to knead in nearly 2 cups extra of flour to get it to stop being sticky. I thought I was adding too much flour, and the bread would end up too dense.

Getting ready for a second rise in their loaf pans.

Rising!

About to pop 'em in the oven!

Just out of the oven. I thought I'd over cooked it. They felt so hard when I popped them out.

After they rested a while they softened up a bit.

The crumb!

Oh my gosh. SO EASY! Just a lot of patience. I am so glad I gave this a try. I feel like I will definitely be making this often. Below is a link to the recipe, if anyone is interested. I found it on Pinterest! By the way, I used regular white AP flour--nothing fancy. No bread flour.

http://stories.savvymom.ca/jCd9