Good review

I was going to make pizza for supper tonight, but all of a sudden the desire to not make pizza overcame me. But it's cold out, and I wanted to use the oven! So I threw pizza dough ingredients into the bread machine--the pizza dough recipe is identical to the french bread* recipe--and threw in some oregano and garlic powder, set it on "Dough" and hit start.

Then I realized the oregano would leave green specks in the bread. Paidhi Boy prefers his foods as plain and untextured as possible, and specks are alarming to him. We won't even talk about how he reacts to green food.

But he loves the french bread, and so when he saw it come out of the oven he begged a piece. Once it had cooled a bit I sliced it, and handed it to him and he tasted it. "Is it good?" I asked.

"Yes!"

"I made this special," I told him. "I put some marinara spice in it." Explaining oregano and garlic would have taken much too long and possibly put him off the bread.

"Why?"

"So it would taste like pizza."

"It does taste like pizza!" he said. "It tastes amazing! And ultra-cool! And fantastic! I just like this bread."

So. Oregano specks are permitted. And my impromptu bread recipe has pleased the critics.



*It doesn't actually come out like french bread, of course. It comes out like a sort of longish loaf of bread that's been baked on a cookie sheet instead of in a loaf pan. But it's easy to make, and popular in the Cameron house.

Good review

I was going to make pizza for supper tonight, but all of a sudden the desire to not make pizza overcame me. But it's cold out, and I wanted to use the oven! So I threw pizza dough ingredients into the bread machine--the pizza dough recipe is identical to the french bread* recipe--and threw in some oregano and garlic powder, set it on "Dough" and hit start.

Then I realized the oregano would leave green specks in the bread. Paidhi Boy prefers his foods as plain and untextured as possible, and specks are alarming to him. We won't even talk about how he reacts to green food.

But he loves the french bread, and so when he saw it come out of the oven he begged a piece. Once it had cooled a bit I sliced it, and handed it to him and he tasted it. "Is it good?" I asked.

"Yes!"

"I made this special," I told him. "I put some marinara spice in it." Explaining oregano and garlic would have taken much too long and possibly put him off the bread.

"Why?"

"So it would taste like pizza."

"It does taste like pizza!" he said. "It tastes amazing! And ultra-cool! And fantastic! I just like this bread."

So. Oregano specks are permitted. And my impromptu bread recipe has pleased the critics.



*It doesn't actually come out like french bread, of course. It comes out like a sort of longish loaf of bread that's been baked on a cookie sheet instead of in a loaf pan. But it's easy to make, and popular in the Cameron house.