Who Bread

So I have no idea why it's called WHO bread other than I know it's a reference to owls, though my kids connect it to whos as in Dr. Suess and the Whos in Whoville...so here it is...

WHO Bread
1 1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons butter @ room temperature
1 tsp salt
3 cups of flour (we do 2 cups unbleached white, 1 cup whole wheat pastry)
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast (or, one package)
Pour 1 1/4c. warm water (about 110 degrees F), honey, sugar, and yeast into a bowl. Whisk until well combined and mixture is frothy. Set aside to proof while you mix together the other ingredients.

In a separate large bowl stir together, flour, butter, salt, rolled oats, and cinnamon.

Pour yeast mixture into flour mixture, and mix until thoroughly combined. (I like to do this with my hands.)

Place dough into a lightly oiled bread pan. Cover with a damp towel and leave in a warm spot to rise for about an hour (45 min. if you’re impatient!). Punch down dough and let rise a second time for 45 minutes, covered with a damp towel.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Remove towel from top of dough and place pan in the center of your oven. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Done!

It is a wonderfully simple recipe, my kids adore it as toast topped with some butter and raspberry jam :)

Yesterday we made the trip to Terry's Berries for, well, berries and other veggies, and eggs, eggs, eggs, I was sooo very out of eggs. My kids especially love the trip because they get to feed the chickens. They very much love the idea of feeding the chickens that will lay the eggs that mommy will make for breakfast or bake something yummy with :)

so of course after the much loved feeding the rest of the day revolved around chickens and how many questions they could ask in order to get the most information about chickens possible. Which was quickly followed up by chicken portraiture...

I had bought a new camera last summer it is an SLR Nikon D3000, I had used it a few times with fabulous results and then just somehow got too busy to be bothered. Well I have fallen in love with it all over again as is probably evident to everyone else and just can't seem to stop taking pictures and seeing photo opportunities at every turn. Someday I know my kids will be grateful to have all these pictures of their childhood, I hope :)

They seem so very innocent and sweet, and really they are of course...

Fantastic dress! one of my best bargain of the summer finds $1.50...

I just love speckled eggs!

Have a wonderful summer's eve...