Baking Bread
I LOVE my 5 Dollars Dinners cookbook. A lot of the recipes use basic ingredients that I usually have on hand. The author, Erin Chase, believes that eating healthier means eating fewer processed foods.
The book has many bread recipes. One way she suggests saving money is by baking your own bread. A hot French loaf at my store costs almost $3. My homemade loaf costs around $ .50. It can save money, but not time. A loaf of French bread can be made in an hour in the shortest amount of time. Today it took me about 1 hour and fifteen minutes.
The first photo is my FIRST attempt at bread ever. It tasted okay, but it wasn’t pretty. In my second attempt I wasn’t afraid to really knead the bread and make it soft. It was so good to eat with olive oil. It also made my house smell heavenly! 
Okay…so along with our Pioneer Woman dinner party…let’s have a bread making party.
Your post title made me think of a song title by patti griffin: Making Pies. Pretty song.