Knead I Say More

Have you ever had high expectations for a simple recipe? Like for example: bread machine bread. Delicious and simple. You dump ingredients in said bread maker and then it does all the hard work. And when you hear that "beep beep beep" three hours later you just know it's going to be warm, fluffy, and FABulous bread.

Well, this exact thing happened yesterday. The stars aligned themselves and I found my self standing in my kitchen prepping for this delicious concoction. I found a great recipe. It was a new one, but seemed promising. Oh, and of course, its whole wheat and REAL. Every. Single. Ingredient. So no need to worry about any funky non-wholesome ingredients being found in that FABulous bread.

Ingredients were dumped. Bread machine plugged in and ready. Start pushed. In 3 hours and 25 minutes I would be slicing up that heavenly loaf.

Fast forward 2 hours. Something seemed amiss. I wasn't smelling that heavenly aroma of warm bread baking. So I took a trip over to the bread maker, lifted the lid, and peeked in...

DEVASTATION!

Nothing had changed. The mix had not mixed at ALL. It looked exactly the same as it did when I made the dump. Nothing unchanged. CRAP!

The irrational part of me wanted to throw a tantrum. A 3 year old in the middle of the grocery store tantrum. Loud. Thrashing limbs. And alligator tears. But instead I grabbed the loaf pan and dumped it all in the trash. Yes, almost 4 cups of whole wheat organic flour and other organic wholesome ingredients down the trash can.

I am telling you, it will make you want to say bad words...

But I didn't. I tossed the loaf pan in the sink and turned off the bread maker. From now on I will ALWAYS make sure every part of that machine is properly in place. Lesson learned.

Moral of this story...Don't be afraid to fail. Yes, it will suck. And you may even feel the need to cry a little or throw an all out "grocery store" tantrum. But next time you will know better. How in the world will we ever learn with out failure? Especially in the kitchen. I have failed a lot. But I have persevered. And here I am standing on the other side, a new day. And bread baking in my bread maker!

Cheers to failures and successes. For you cannot have one without the other!

With Love,
Bek

P.S. Stay tuned for a fabulous special guest post by my bread baking friend Renee. She will be teaching me how to make bread without my machine! Knead I say more?