Hi Everyone,
While we hustle and bustle about setting Garlic Pork and Ginger Beer, making Pepperpot and baking cake days in advance, securing the ham and other traditional holiday goodies, please do not forget the bread. What I mean is this – don’t forget to include the baking of bread in all your food prep and cooking.
The holidays are a celebration of home cooking. From scratch home cooking. And it’s easy to cast aside the baking of bread for the holidays because there are so many bakeries around. For the most part, they’re good, for everyday eating, but for the holidays, make it extra special – bake your own bread. Homemade bread evokes all the things we love about the holidays – nostalgia and family; it has a way of feeding our souls in a way few other foods can. At its simplest and best is eating slices of warm bread slathered with butter. It is a taste of home. And isn’t that what we all crave at the holidays? A taste of home?