Improving

I'm one of those who always sticks to the recipe.  Other than an occasional change of spice or nut, I'm not very proficient in what mixes and what doesn't. Anyway, I decided to make some bread-machine bread this morning, so after researching the net for a good whole wheat bread recipe, I dumped some water and olive oil into the machine's pan.  Deciding to go ahead and gather remaining ingredients, I opened the freezer to find I didn't have the whole wheat flour afterall.  In fact, all I had was self-rising flour.  Determined to make bread, I again researched for a recipe.  All I found was alot of strong recommendations not to try using the self-rising flour as it would not work.  This just wasn't going to do ~giggle~. With 3 tablespoons of olive oil already invested in this, I was going to try putting something together regardless of the outcome! Three hours later and no explosion from the machine, it was ready for a taste test.  Unbelievably, it tasted great!!!! Yay for me!  Here's all I used:

1 Cup Warm Water

3 Tablespoons Olive Oil

3 Tablespoons Honey

1 Egg

3 Cups Self-Rising Flour

1 Tablespoon Sugar

I Packet Active Dry Yeast

(prepared according to bread machine's settings)

Christmas Break

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!  I'll be putting a new post up in a few days with some family updates (things been kinda wacky around here recently!). In the meantime I would like to congratulate my cousin Rita and her marriage last week (photo below)! I hope you guys are extremely happy and blessed!
Here are a couple of photos from Miki in trees during Christmas break.

Rita, Bruce, & Family

She's in there somewhere!