holding onto the simple ...

This week one of us (us being the parents of the house) watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution http://www.jamieoliver.com/us/foundation/jamies-food-revolution/news-content/food-revolution-season-2-returns-to-abc. And a couple of days later the other one of us watched the movie Food Inc. http://www.foodincmovie.com/. Now both of us are worried about the state of our food. By this I do not mean what state are we eating our food in, but WHAT is happening to our food?! Where did it come from?! What is it made of? What have we been doing wrong?! Then the thoughts of how in the world can we afford to feed our family with ingredients that are clean and healthy? Do we feed beef ever again? Do we stick to rice and beans? 

We have always taught our children to love and appreciate the outdoors and nature but our food well, it is expected to be OK and now it is not.. So what do we do? In this house we make bread and then, we break it with the family that we love, adore and cherish. Maybe if we all held onto the simple ways of the past in preparing food we could feel less fearful... Maybe, just maybe... 

Thanks B. for the delicious and perfect recipe!

Directions to the simple bread we made:

Mix in a bowl 6 1/2 cups flour, 1 1/2 TBSP yeast, 1 1/2 TBSP salt, 3 cups warm water. 

Only stir until the ingredients are mixed together.  

Then just set it aside with a dish towel over the bowl for a few hours.  It'll double in size.  

*We mixed it in the morning and then baked it right before dinner.  

How to bake:

preheat the oven to 500F with the dutch oven in the oven at the same time.  

use cast iron dutch oven 

Recipe yields 2 nice sized loafs (so split the dough in half and plop one in the pan)  

Bake it for 30 minutes with the lid on the dutch oven and then remove the lid and bake 5 more minutes to brown the top. 

*we sprinkled cracked wheat on the top for the extra crunch