I'm going to make some bread...

For Christmas, my wonderful adoring husband got me a Cuisinart 14 cup Food Processor. I have only actually used it a couple times since then. I am just so used to doing things the 'hard' way. Linda posted a recipe for basic wheat bread on her blog Thursday (wow, that was just yesterday) and I wanted to make it then but discovered it later in the day and didn't feel I had enough time. Well, I sure do today. But I wanted to make it a little easier on myself. She (Linda) has a bread machine (I used to not like those things but you know, I might be seeing the benefits...) that she mixes her dough with. She bakes it in the oven however. I decided that I would see if I can't make my dough in the food processor. It's sitting on my counter, all lonely like...okay, so they don't get lonely but I can imagine since it's been neglected lol. I remembered when I got the food processor that there was a bread recipe in the booklet that came with it. Of course, that was months ago and I had to find what I did with it. I found it, along with the instructional dvd. The recipe is for focaccia bread, not regular bread. I like focaccia, but I want to make a, uh, real loaf of bread.

I went digging online and came to a nice page of results on Google. I honestly love videos that are how-to but whatever... I clicked on a few then on found one here. She mills her wheat and all! I'm not going that far but I liked the way she includes pictures of each step (and tells of her 'mistakes') along the way.

I am confident now that I can make my dough in the wonderful food processor that I have. I will try to post pictures later of my ordeal progress and finished loaf later.