Baking Your Own Bread

I’ve always wanted to bake my own bread. I just love the smell of baking bread whenever I pass my favorite bakeshop in the mall nearest us. Wanting to bake my own bread further intensified when a good friend started baking her own bread because of her children’s allergies.

Now I really want one and I’m so glad I was able to get one through a redemption from Fly Buys — one of New Zealand’s points earning scheme where you earn points when you purchase from any of their affiliated companies.

Gotta love ‘freebies’ especially during these hard economic times.

Here’s the breadmaker that I bought:

and here’s the first batch of bread I baked with the help of my Mom and a good friend of ours living with us at the moment:

On my next post, watch the blow-by-blow account of how these babies were baked