The Master Baker turns Six Today (months)

If there is one thing that has surprised me most since I started blogging is how much I love to bake bread.  It was just six months ago today that I posted my very first bread.  I made a Fugasse Bread, and I thought I was on the top of the world!  Just for fun, follow THIS LINK and read over what I did for that first loaf.  If you will excuse the braggadocio, I was pretty pleased with the bread and my writing for that post.  I was hooked, and I have been working on my bread skills ever since.  Little did i suspect that those skills would come in VERY handy here in paradise.  Bread has a couple of things working against it on the island.  It is labor intensive to make, and it has a short shelf life.  Bread from the states is several days old by the time it gets to the store shelves here.  So, quality loafs of bread are expensive.  Easily $6 for wonder bread and up to $10 or more for an artisan loaf.  So, necessity and cost has given me a wonderful excuse to hone my baking skills.


Today, in honor of my 6 month birthday, I am going to give you several links to recipes I have made in the past week, but also I am going to show you what I do with the bread.  Bread is a staple in my menu plans.  So, I am going to show you the loafs with links, but also where they ended up feeding us during this last week...


So, i give you a week in the life of an islander bread eater...


Above is a loaf of Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread.  This is Jackie's bread, as I am not a fan of raisins.  She had a slice every day for breakfast.

I also made her some French Toast one evening for dinner...  Jackie said it was out of this world good!

I now have  a bread recipe memorized...  I make MOOMIE BUNS every week.  Moomie buns are incredibly easy, easy to adapt and fast.  I have gotten into a habit of topping them with my sesame seed/sea salt mixture that adds a little extra once the seeds and salt are roasted.  Chicken sandwiches and cheater shrimp po'boys are on the menu most weeks.

This week, I used my Moomie Buns for their intended purpose.  I am working on a blue cheese bacon burger, but I have not gotten the blue cheese sauce correct yet, so I haven't posted the meal (anyone have a good blue cheese sauce for a burger???).  I have posted the plantain fries with a lime zest/sea salt accent.

And finally, this week I made a loaf of Eng's Bread.  Eng's bread is a sweetened French bread.

I love the rotisserie chicken that I get here cheap.  SO, an open face chicken sandwich, with some smoked Gouda cheese, broiled for a few minutes to get the cheese that pretty toasted look.

I have already posted the sandwich I made above... My version of a bad Croque Madame!

I made some French Toast...

But you know, deep down, I am just a simple guy eating a simple lunch...


Next week, I will be making a ciabatta bread.  I also plan on making some more crackers, and I am sure that a batch of moomie buns will be in the works.  Bread baking is a pretty good skill to have.


I have always been a work in progress.  Blessed with courage and ignorance, it's been a pretty good 6 months!