BreAdVenture

We are making bread. I bought some bananas that got too old to eat, so I thought, banana bread! So I found a recipe that needed 6 bananas. So I bought 4 more. Then, today we started the bread, but Marco didn't read ahead enough to see that we were supposed to use the bananas instead of the water in the basic recipe, so after he had a big wad of dough we figured out it was too late. So, we decided just to make a regular loaf out of that stuff to go with spaghetti tonight and start over with the bananas. Then, before Diesel and I went off to the store to buy more yeast and flour, Marco asked me what 'tepid' meant. I told him it means warm. So that's how we figured out why the first wad of dough wouldn't rise! So now we have two big wads of dough rising in the kitchen (we put the first one in front of the fire where it's nice and warm and it worked). All this after I decided that I need to reduce my consumption of refined flour foods ( I think that's maybe why I'm not absorbing more iron from my food - anyway it's worth a try). Oh well - we'll share the first loaf with the rest of the family at our spag party tonight!!