Bread, etc. (not woodworking)

I am the delighted recipient of Mrs. Barn’s foodie-ism.  She loves cooking as much as I love puttering in the shop.  One of the benefits of this relationship is that I come down the hill for lunch and supper every day and there is a wholesome real-live meal awaiting me.  She makes all our butter, yoghurt (our breakfast of choice for many years) and ice cream from scratch, as she does with almost everything else we eat.  No wonder my matchmaking sister told me 45 years ago, “I’ve got just the girl for you!”

In recent years as an attempt to reduce our carb and white flour/wheat intake she has been making sourdough bread from einkorn she grinds herself.  Admittedly she parcels it out like I was a junkie, maybe a slice or two a week.  When we went lower-carb years ago I gave up sodas and fruit drinks cold turkey with no problem, Same for wheat pasta and other starches as she has found excellent alternatives (I actually prefer quinoa to rice and pureed cauliflower is almost equal to mashed potatoes).  But bread?  That was way tougher as I had been eating a whole loaf of grocery store bread every week and still love it.

She has compiled a recipe repertoire that I think she should turn into a cookbook (especially the wheat-free treats and sugar-free desserts, but she doesn’t think anybody would be interested.  Sigh.)

Anyway, this video made me think of all this.  I found it fascinating, she found it old news.