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Your Ticket to Absolute Power & Supremacy: Learn to Bake Bread

March 23, 2009

I make bread. Does that make me some amish-type throwback? A freak show to be ridiculed? A do-gooder wife and mom? Super mom? (I actually AM SuperMom, but that’s stuff for another self-glorifying post.)

Maybe I’m just tired of paying $4.29 for a loaf of the (extremely delicious) take and bake variety at the store. We eat bread in mass quantities. The whole no-carb craze never reached our family. Nor WILL it ever reach our family. Plus, and friends of mine know this, I keep my house at the miserly temperature of 64 degrees during the winter. It’s DAMN cold in here, right up thru May. Making bread really serves many purposes. In decreasing order of importance, it sets me up as a deity to be worshiped, it makes my friends feel like terrible, lazy wives and mothers, it warms my frigid home, it feeds my family, and it saves me money.

The recipes I use could not be easier. Honestly. There is hardly a way you can screw this up, people. Give it a shot. I’m pretty sure that you will love the bread, but I guarantee you will become addicted to the drug that is absolute power and supremacy over your friends and family.

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I’m a mostly-retired, pretend graphics and web developer (but don’t judge my skillz by THIS site!). We sold our dream home in Watertown, MN and downsized to a “Villa” in Excelsior, MN and built a home in our dream location of Eagle, CO and now split our time between the two states. It is truly a dichotomous life of absentee gardening and getting together with friends & family while in MN and playing hard and hermitting while in CO. I’ve let the blog go but a trip to Alaska has me resurrecting the Road Warriors series. My beloved brother is my biggest fan and I am doing this just for him.

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