#learning to bake

Shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Strawberry Banana Bread Recipe

I made a strawberry banana bread and despite not reading the directions first and putting the ingredients in the wrong order.. it still turned out SO good! 🤤

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Strawberry Crisp

I also made another strawberry crisp and shared it with some people.. they LOVED it so I highly recommend this recipe! ❤️

***not my recipes.. I've linked the recipes.

Year of Bread. New comic.

I’m learning how to make the breads I grew up with, like mantou (steamed buns), huajuan (twisted rolls), and congyou bing (stovetop scallion bread). ⁣⁣

It is comforting and stress-relieving, if also fattening! Still, I’m enjoying being a total beginner at something again. ⁣

Surprise! This week comes with an extra bake! I wasn’t planning on doing this one until next week but A.J. is still on his vacation and, well, I was extremely bored. I cannot explain my excitement about this particular bake. In fact, this bake is so significant because the main reason I started this challenge was because I wanted to learn how to bake bread. I mean, I want to learn so many different things like pie, tarts, puddings, macarons, etc. But I really just wanted to make bread. And now I feel kind of dumb because I wanted to learn because I thought it was going to be WAY harder than it was.

This bake truly holds up to its name - very easy. 4 ingredients, one bowl, one pan, unbelievably amazing results. Before I began this bake I consulted a friend of mine @andrewfindsawesomethings for some tips and tricks because I don’t know anyone else that has baked more bread (and fantastically, I might add). His biggest piece of advice was to not knead the dough for more than 7 minutes. So to stay true to that I barely kneaded it and left it be as much as possible. 

I was fairly worried about how it would turn out during the baking process because the crust became a perfect golden brown but when I inserted a skewer into the center is pulled out with wet dough. But Andrew came through again and suggested I put tinfoil over the top to prevent it from burning while the inside continued cooking.

The final results were honestly so much better than I even anticipated. This bread loaf is PERFECT. The inside is soft and squishy. The crust is perfect and makes that sound, You know, the SOUND. Like in Disney’s Ratatouille they explain that perfect sound the crust makes when you squeeze it. I am tremendously proud of this loaf of bread and it’s so easy, so cheap, and so delicious that i can;t just not make it a new staple in our home. I can see myself baking this bread for guests or even just for some picnic sandwiches.