~Wheat Bread~

The smell of homemade bread has always reminds me of our dad.

Growing up this stuff was scarce and around Christmas time it was almost forbidden.  I suppose I had the know-how to make the bread myself, but as a teenager I never thought up that idea.  Now, I make it all the time.  I even find myself telling the kids that they can’t have any because it takes all day to make and is too good to waste on my unappreciative brats children.

            I suppose I didn’t have the idea to bake this bread until I had been married for several years.  Dad had made it for no particular reason one Sunday when we had been invited over.  Our timing had been off and it wasn’t finished cooking by the time we needed to take the beastlings home.  To tame the cravings the smell of the homemade bread and created I decided I needed to bake the bread myself.  After rifling through my recipe drawer I realized that I did not have “Dad’s Whole Wheat Bread” recipe.  Minutes later Jessica was emailing it to me, warning me not change it because, “Dad has done all the research for us, and there’s no need to mess with a good thing.” 

~Mr. R and I in front of some Wheat~

            My “Whole Wheat Bread” recipe is in fact, not bread at all, but chocolate chip cookies.  Growing up Mom’s recipe was always changing until she settled on a recipe that Aunt Rhonda given to her, she calls it “Rhonda’s cookies”.  But when I started having my own children I decided that I needed my own chocolate chip cookie.  After trying several different recipes (some good, some awful) I settled for one I found online and with a few adjustments, I made them my own.

Whether you bake, craft, exercise or read, everyone needs to have an outlet in life.   Dealing with children, work, and/or school all day can be exhausting and quite frankly it is stressful.  For Dad it was figuring out the perfect wheat bread recipe.  For me it is baking cookies.