Comments on The Green Phone Booth: Pretzels and Bagels and Breadsticks Oh My!

Try a raw chunk of green(or other) apple rolled in...

2010-03-02T19:17:28.466-08:00

Try a raw chunk of green(or other) apple rolled in brown sugar and cinnamon and then buried in the centre of your buns. Like treasure waiting to be found :)

viv in nz

I'm impressed! I do work full time outside the...

2010-02-26T17:26:01.697-08:00

I'm impressed! I do work full time outside the home, so our journey toward cooking from scratch and eating local has many shortcuts. I plan on working on bread when summer comes; for now, it's the breadmaker.

8 loaves!? Wow! One thing that we've found h...

2010-02-25T18:16:55.464-08:00

8 loaves!? Wow! One thing that we've found helpful even though I feel slightly silly for even having one is a bread machine. I actually think I might love my bread machine in fact. Literally just dump all the ingredients in at night and in the morning is a nice loaf of bread. Its also the type of appliance that people always seem to have and never use and so they show up on craigslist, yard sales etc. That and the $3 for 2 pounds of yeast at Costco have made it much easier.

These recipes are great! We did a 31 days series o...

2010-02-25T06:50:56.374-08:00

These recipes are great! We did a 31 days series on living greener and healthier and one of our topics was going meatless at least once a week (better when done at least 3x though!) and my top two alternatives for meat are fruits and bread! Thanks for sharing these recipes -- everything looks really yummy and I can't wait to try them myself!

@Jenn - Cool! I'm glad it worked.

2010-02-25T05:36:40.040-08:00

@Jenn - Cool! I'm glad it worked.

Hey, I tried the english muffins with the last sma...

2010-02-24T14:27:05.202-08:00

Hey, I tried the english muffins with the last small bit of dough in my bin--nifty! Easy! The texture was cool, too--crispy outside and nice and soft and chewy inside. Definitely a keeper! Thanks!

@Julia - There are five of us. My kids don't l...

2010-02-24T08:07:54.724-08:00

@Julia - There are five of us. My kids don't like rice or potatoes (unless it's a French fry), and they're not fond of pasta. I make those things for dinner when I'm more willing to fight with them about what to eat, and breakfast is mostly oats-based. But lunch is definitely sandwiches or burritos. Also, rice and potatoes aren't practical for my son's packed lunches because he can't heat things up.

I bought a dehydrator and canner off of craigslist, and I'm hoping to be able to dry and can a bunch of fruits and vegetables this year. Then hopefully we can do more fruit and vegetable snacks instead of grain based snacks. Also after the month is up, storebought tortillas are definitely coming back and my kids are jonesin' for boxed cereal. So after this experimental month, we may work our way back down to less bread. But it's been very educational, as Jenn said!

holy cow that's a lot of bread! how many peopl...

2010-02-24T07:26:23.259-08:00

holy cow that's a lot of bread! how many people are in your family?? if you're using bread for sandwiches for lunch, maybe you should brainstorm some easier lunch meals that involve rice or other grains or potatoes as the carbohydrate.

I am both impressed and jealous! I tried making br...

2010-02-24T07:03:20.322-08:00

I am both impressed and jealous! I tried making bread once and failed miserably, so I'm beyond impressed with all of the different bread items you're able to make!

What an awesome post! I never thought to take my ...

2010-02-24T06:46:53.911-08:00

What an awesome post! I never thought to take my bread recipe and transform it into other things. You are brilliant. Now, I'm off to bake some bagels, or maybe pretzels, or maybe....

Thanks!

Girlfriend, WOW. I salute you. I need to make mo...

2010-02-24T06:40:58.923-08:00

Girlfriend, WOW. I salute you.

I need to make more bread today, but I have a little dough left from the last batch, so I may have to try some of your Thousand Faces of Bread ideas. (Especially the English Muffins...that sounds cool!)

I totally get your whole "take these foods away and the whole edifice comes crumbling down" thing--that's how I felt when all of a sudden my husband couldn't eat beans. It's a huge challenge. But yours is much bigger! I don't think we could make it without pasta and/or tortillas.

The cool thing about these challenges, for me, is always that whole thing of "see how this works."--once its done sometimes I go, "well, that was educational, I think I'll let someone else make my ______ from now on" (that was me and cheese...interesting intellectual exercise; too much work.) And sometimes you realize "hey, that's not so bad!" and it becomes part of life going forward.

Also, I bought my first box of parchment paper a few months ago, and it's AWESOME stuff--I've cut my aluminum foil use by probably 75%, and it is great for cooking bread and stuff without things getting sticky. I line my loaf pans with it now for bread. Highly recommend it!