Midnight cooking

Hi all, once again posting from the dead of night. I am doing one of the few things that I find still brings me some measure of peace and stability to my wacky life. I am cooking something that I know I will need this week. I even have a tumblr account dedicated to some of these recipies I have either learned, or occasionally created. Food has always been a huge part of my memories from both this and past lives. It has also had an emotional effect on me this life that I just can't figure out. In response to this, I have been calculating the amount of money that I spend on food, trying to see where I can't cut costs without it having a significant, negative impact on my health. Seeing that I don't have much as it is, this wasn't exactly going to be easy.

Then it hit me, rather hard too. The one food I love more than almost anything else is bread. I had cut out almost all treats, switched to.canned and frozen veggies and was making beans about twice a week. I am still trying to keep as close to a vegan diet as possible, so I still buy soymilk. I just don't drink too much it an stick to store brands. Bread, however, was expensive. This was doubly so for the types that didn't use milk as an ingredient. It was a huge drain on my already stretched budget.

The store bought bread was expensive, however I soon noticed that flower was relatively inexpensive, so I went out in search of a good recipe for vegan bread. Surprisingly the search lead me strait to another Blogspot blog. eased Vegan life had the perfect recipe for bread. Only three ingredients, it was exactly what I needed.

A month or so later and some tweaking to the recipe, mainly in how long the bread is allowed to rest and rise, I come to my tiny loaf cooling in the microwave. Due to my preference of denser breads and my lack of an interest in sandwiches the dough is only allowed to rise once, and I usually give it about an hour. My purpose for the bread is mainly to serve as a Abaci that I can't eat with some coffee on the way to work. I know it may seen cheep, but something about it feels almost more natural than the cereal I grew up with. I will likely make a few more loaf-like creations when my son is older, so that he can't take it as a sandwich to school, or other things more interesting than that, but it will be a few years so I have time.

In any case, it is getting late, and there are still a few, non-food related things for me to do. Blessed be, and see you all about.
Shilo