Oh for heavens sakes I truly forgot how good homemade bread really is! I humbly admit that my mom gave me a bread machine for Christmas about five years ago. I’ve used it a couple times and am not entirely sure why I haven’t continually used it. It’s so easy in comparison to the other option of making bread with your own hands! I love to cook and all but don’t have time to knead a dough ball! Michael has been dropping hints here and there for five years about using the machine and that he’d LOVE some homemade bread. And of course I half listened and poo poo’d him . . . ya da ya da ya da (wink)! Then Christmas rolls around this year and I get the itch to make a Christmas Bread and I cleverly think “oh yeah I have a bread machine to make this task simple”. So out comes the bread machine and 3 hours later the house has a wonderful homemade bread smell and it took me all of 5 minutes to add the ingredients to the machine. So my friends and family, I urge you to go out and purchase yourself one of these babies and permeate your home with the wonderful smell and the phrase “oh my gosh this is so good” will be falling from your loved ones mouths. Listen, just because Michael knows my bread comes from the machine doesn’t mean your loved ones have to know. Let them think you made it entirely from scratch. HeHeHe

bon appetit!