Martha Who????

Yesterday I entered the world of bread baking. Now, to be fair, I didn't do the WHOLE thing myself. For my first attempt, I started by making the dough in my handy-dandy breadmaker. That thing gets so much use, we wear them out at about a rate of one per year.

Since I am a happy little stay at home mom, I figure that making my own bread is a task I'd like to conquer. I can add it to my "mommy resume", along with kissing boo-boos, making kick-ass banana bread, and successfully scaling "laundry mountain". The list is long, my friends...the list is long.

So I made the dough in the breadmaker. The ultimate goal, of course, is to do the whole thing from scratch, but I decided to start out easy for my first attempt. After letting the dough rise in the breadmaker once, I kneaded it out again, plunked it into the pan, and waited nervously for the second rising. Success! It rose without any trouble at all. I popped it into the oven and baked it, and it came out looking like this:



Beautiful! If I do say so myself. Now, the only thing left is the taste test, which will come today at lunchtime. I can only hope that it tastes as great as it looks!