B is for Bread

B is for Bread. Sure, now you think there is a food theme happening, but really what has happened is images have popped into my head, forcing me to seek out the photo to make the post. B and Tuesday made the image of  bread at Orchard Hill Breadworks overtake my brain, so I hop in the car and sure enough, fresh loaves from the wood fired oven await on the racks. I've brought home a round french bread, that I plan to cut into in the very near future along with a cold glass of local farm milk and apple slices from yesterday. Simple and delicious.

 Over time, the Breadworks has grown, and there are a few other products available from local farmers inside the bakery. The bread is found in many stores throughout the region; but if you find yourself in East Alstead, you can pick up your own, but you better go early, as late in the day the rack will be nearly empty, if not completely bare. It is one of the few places that still believes in the honor system, and that feels good to be a part of. Belief in your fellow neighbor is a beautiful thing.

Look at these beauties, carb free diet? Are you kidding? Not for me!Bread also makes me think of my Grandma, who is almost 92 and still makes her own bread on a regular basis. Now days she employs a bread machine, but the smell throughout the house is still nothing short of luscious. When I was younger, she made all her bread and dinner rolls from scratch. What fun it was to help knead the dough and watch it rise, seems we all congregated in the old farmhouse kitchen. Sometimes we make bread in our home, but not nearly often enough

I have to say this A - Z event is quite fun so far! I'm so easily distracted, gosh it's great to have all these ideas, topics popping into my head - as I was sure I had lost all sense of spontaneous ideas, I was sure they had all gone down the drain, been left in the laundry basket, certainly I have nothing to say... but then again, maybe I do! So thank you, to Arlee Bird who founded this event.