Do you eat bread with your meals?

Michael Horowitz said:

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy making bread; we just don't eat much -
bagel from the local bakery, no sandwiches. If I made bread for
supper, my wife would gobble it up, then accuse me of loving
'rubenesque" wives.

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

No, for the same reason your wife wouldn't. I love bread and make my
own. But usually I limit my intake to sandwiches (which I bring in
almost every day at lunch) and planned snacks (eg. a slice of bread
and some apple butter in the evening).

OTOH, there are some meals that do require bread and butter, eg. pot
roast.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

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Michael Horowitz said:

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -

No. I don't eat bread at all.

Miche

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Michael Horowitz said:

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Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -

Almost always for breakfast: toast or bagel or English muffin or
biscuits. Sometimes for lunch: sandwich. Occasionally for dinner: a
French roll or cornbread with beef stew, cornbread or tortillas with
chili and with beans, garlic bread with some kinds of pasta. The other
90% of dinners, no. It's not a diet thing, it's more that bread seems
extraneous to most of our dinners. -aem

Michael Horowitz said:

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

I love good bread so much, I'd make IT the meal if someone didn't slap
me. Also, the main reason we got a KA was for bread. Bread machines
are fine, but I can't get over the square loaf thing. The KA, if you
like bread is a good tool - and I am not overly fond of kitchen
gadgets. $45? Sounds good to me.

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Quoted message said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but all I
could think of asking was "what would I do with it?" On the rare
occassion I feel an urge to make bread, I'll fire up the bread
machine, or do it by hand. I don't do much baking. I do have an
Cuisinart.

So I GOOGLED the ng for previous posts concerning KA and sure enuf,
there is a lot of praise for the machine. Seem it's main use seems to
be making dough for baking, making mashed potatoes and with the proper
accessories, other stuff (sausage, pasta, grinding).

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy making bread; we just don't eat much -
bagel from the local bakery, no sandwiches. If I made bread for
supper, my wife would gobble it up, then accuse me of loving
'rubenesque" wives.

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

It depends entirely on the meal. Some call for bread, with others bread
would be superfluous. And anyway, why on earth would you make a decision
based on what other people eat?

BTW, the KA mixer is useful for many things other than what you mentions -
beating egg whites, making cake and cookie batter, and so on. And making
mashed potatoes in the mixer is best avoided unless you want a sticky gluey
result.

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Peter Aitken

Remove the [censored] from my email address before using.

Michael Horowitz said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but all I
could think of asking was "what would I do with it?"
Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

Generally not. If it is offered in a restaurant, sure. I don't go out of
my way to make/eat bread at home. Having said that, however, I'm toasting a
small sourdough loaf for my potato leek soup tonight. That will be three
times this month (including some biscuits) I've eaten bread. It's pretty
unusual for me.

Jill

Michael Horowitz said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but all I
could think of asking was "what would I do with it?" On the rare
occassion I feel an urge to make bread, I'll fire up the bread
machine, or do it by hand. I don't do much baking. I do have an
Cuisinart.

So I GOOGLED the ng for previous posts concerning KA and sure enuf,
there is a lot of praise for the machine. Seem it's main use seems to
be making dough for baking, making mashed potatoes and with the proper
accessories, other stuff (sausage, pasta, grinding).

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy making bread; we just don't eat much -
bagel from the local bakery, no sandwiches. If I made bread for
supper, my wife would gobble it up, then accuse me of loving
'rubenesque" wives.

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

Bread is the centre of my breakfast. Bread with other meals depends on
the meal. Soups or stews usually get a bread accompaniment. Sandwiches
are another meal on their own.
So we eat a couple of loaves of homemade bread every week.
Then there's the tortillas, matzos, parathas, pitas etc

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"Michael Horowitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but
all I could think of asking was "what would I do with it?" On the
rare occassion I feel an urge to make bread, I'll fire up the
bread machine, or do it by hand. I don't do much baking. I do
have an Cuisinart.

So I GOOGLED the ng for previous posts concerning KA and sure
enuf, there is a lot of praise for the machine. Seem it's main use
seems to be making dough for baking, making mashed potatoes and
with the proper accessories, other stuff (sausage, pasta,
grinding).

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy making bread; we just don't eat much
- bagel from the local bakery, no sandwiches. If I made bread for
supper, my wife would gobble it up, then accuse me of loving
'rubenesque" wives.

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals?
- Mike

It depends entirely on the meal. Some call for bread, with others
bread would be superfluous. And anyway, why on earth would you make
a decision based on what other people eat?

BTW, the KA mixer is useful for many things other than what you
mentions - beating egg whites, making cake and cookie batter, and so
on. And making mashed potatoes in the mixer is best avoided unless
you want a sticky gluey result.

Yes ...excessive power tools and cooked potatoes just don't get along.
The results can be snot-like. Been there and bought several T-shirts and
a penant.

The main advantage of the KA mixer is you don't NEED to be right there,
while it does it's mixing thing. Close by or doing other things nearby is
good enough. It does the bowl holding and spinning as well as the mixing,
so you can be getting something outa the fridge or whatever. It just
needs to be supervised not controlled. That and it has enough power to
knead about 2 loaves worth of bread dough are it's main virtues.

$45 is a very good price, but only if you bake bread or do excessive
amounts of baking.
--
No Bread Crumbs were hurt in the making of this Meal.
Type 2 Diabetic 1AC 7.3, 5.5, 5.6 mmol
Continuing to be Manitoban

Michael Horowitz said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but all I
could think of asking was "what would I do with it?" On the rare
occassion I feel an urge to make bread, I'll fire up the bread
machine, or do it by hand. I don't do much baking. I do have an
Cuisinart.

So I GOOGLED the ng for previous posts concerning KA and sure enuf,
there is a lot of praise for the machine. Seem it's main use seems to
be making dough for baking, making mashed potatoes and with the proper
accessories, other stuff (sausage, pasta, grinding).

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy making bread; we just don't eat much -
bagel from the local bakery, no sandwiches. If I made bread for
supper, my wife would gobble it up, then accuse me of loving
'rubenesque" wives.

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

We love bread at my house, and we love our KitchenAid, but it's the
bread machine that makes most of the homemade bread. The KitchenAid is a
very useful appliance though and we wouldn't be without one, and that
has nothing to do with the bread we do or don't eat.

Bruce

Bruce B said:

Michael Horowitz said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but all I
could think of asking was "what would I do with it?" On the rare
occassion I feel an urge to make bread, I'll fire up the bread
machine, or do it by hand. I don't do much baking. I do have an
Cuisinart.

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Quoted message said:

We love bread at my house, and we love our KitchenAid, but it's the
bread machine that makes most of the homemade bread. The KitchenAid is a
very useful appliance though and we wouldn't be without one, and that
has nothing to do with the bread we do or don't eat.

Bruce

If I had room, I'd have had a Kitchen Aid years ago. So many things
that I see on FoodTV shows use them (although right now, I can't think
of anything!)

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

"Michael Horowitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but all I
could think of asking was "what would I do with it?" On the rare
occassion I feel an urge to make bread, I'll fire up the bread
machine, or do it by hand. I don't do much baking. I do have an
Cuisinart.

So I GOOGLED the ng for previous posts concerning KA and sure enuf,
there is a lot of praise for the machine. Seem it's main use seems to
be making dough for baking, making mashed potatoes and with the proper
accessories, other stuff (sausage, pasta, grinding).

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy making bread; we just don't eat much -
bagel from the local bakery, no sandwiches. If I made bread for
supper, my wife would gobble it up, then accuse me of loving
'rubenesque" wives.

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

Yes, Mike -- EVERY MEAL!
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~rosadove/DeeDoveyFamilyPage/breadbydee.htm
Dee

Michael Horowitz said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but all

I

Quoted message said:

could think of asking was "what would I do with it?" On the rare
occassion I feel an urge to make bread, I'll fire up the bread
machine, or do it by hand. I don't do much baking.

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

Generally not unless the meal is a sandwich. Like tonight I had ziti
with sausage and homemade sauce... the pasta was more than enough
carbs, and in fact I couldn't finish my entire plateful so into the
fridge for tomorrow... had I had bread the sausage would have been
enough without the pasta.

Anyway, if that KA works and is in good condition appearance-wise then
it'd be hard to pass up at that price... the bowl alone costs about
$45. Your bread machine can be used to knead dough and then you can
bake it freeform. But you may find other things where you can use a
small stand mixer. Also if you have the room, it'd be silly to devote
valuable counter space for something you'd rarely use, if ever.

Curly Sue said:

If I had room, I'd have had a Kitchen Aid years ago. So many things
that I see on FoodTV shows use them (although right now, I can't

think

Quoted message said:

of anything!)

I can't think of anything either. That's because there really isn't
anything you can do with such a small stand mixer that you can't do
equally well by hand or with a hand mixer. I love my new KA solid state
7 speed hand mixer... but my old Sunbeam hand mixer is still in the
pantry and it did fine for over 30 years. And just recently I gave
away my really old Sunbeam Mixmaster, hadn't used that in about 30
years either (was a pain to clean and didn't do anything their hand
held unit couldn't do as well). For bread dough I either use my ABM or
my hands. I really don't see the point in any of the small stand
mixers unless one is handicapped. And from all the fancy schmancy
designer colors they're made in nowadays it would be difficult to
convince me that KA isn't catering/pandering mostly to those who only
want one for snob appeal/display.

Sheldon

"Michael Horowitz" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals?

No, we used to when I was a kid, wow, that Wonder Bread with
margarine!

At any rate, of course I like toast with my eggs. I like English
muffins with butter and marmalade, but that *is* my meal.

However, some meals SCREAM for bread. For example,
yesterday at lunch, Australian? mussels with garlic sauce,
keep the mussels, give me bread to dip into the sauce.
I'm crazy for that.

Garlic bread with pasta? Of course. No question.

nancy

In article <[email hidden]>,

Michael Horowitz said:

It started last Wednesday when I spotted a KitchenAid mixer in the
Thrift Shop for $45. I mulled over whether or not to buy it, but all I
could think of asking was "what would I do with it?" On the rare
occassion I feel an urge to make bread, I'll fire up the bread
machine, or do it by hand. I don't do much baking. I do have an
Cuisinart.

So I GOOGLED the ng for previous posts concerning KA and sure enuf,
there is a lot of praise for the machine. Seem it's main use seems to
be making dough for baking, making mashed potatoes and with the proper
accessories, other stuff (sausage, pasta, grinding).

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy making bread; we just don't eat much -
bagel from the local bakery, no sandwiches. If I made bread for
supper, my wife would gobble it up, then accuse me of loving
'rubenesque" wives.

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

When I eat at home, the only time I eat bread is when I make a sandwich
for lunch or dinner, and with eggs for breakfast. Eggs without toast
just seems wrong to me. Even when I grew up, my parents served bread
with dinner only on holidays such as Thanksgiving when we had company
over for dinner.

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Quoted message said:

Do you eat bread with your meals?

Usually. Sometimes it's even bread we've made.

If the bug [to start making bread regularly] ever bites you, I'd
recommend, "The Complete Book of Breads" by Bernard Clayton, Jr. (1973).
Find a copy at your local used book shop. Worth every penny.

The Ranger

Michael Horowitz said:

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -
Mike

Rarely. I've make potato scones to go with simple soup and salad
dinners. I must admit that beyond a little hard crusty on a bread plate,
eaten sparingly and buttered one bite at a time, I was raised to think a
slice of white bread, all buttered, in the left hand, alternating with
bites from a fork in the right hand was the sign of someone who was, in
my mother's words "Yanked up rather than brought up", i.e. low class.
My husband, raised in grubby poverty, ignorance, and let to run wild in
the boonies, does just that. I've learned to look the other way, and
he's learned not to do it with company. Twas a trial for both of us,
however.
Making bread, however, is a consistant joy to me.
blacksalt

Peter Aitken said:

And making
mashed potatoes in the mixer is best avoided unless you want a sticky gluey
result.

Piffle.

serene
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http://serenejournal.livejournal.com
http://www.jhuger.com

Michael Horowitz said:

Which brings us to my question. Do you eat bread with your meals? -

We're diabetic so our bread intake tends to be low. I've found some low
carb bread that's tolerable for sandwiches, and I have some low carb
tortillas that are just great. Generally we'll have bread sparingly, and
then we make an effort to be sure it's quality bread. I haven't
successfully managed to make a low carb bread in my bread machine yet.

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Siobhan Perricone
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I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what ya do in the name of your god"
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