Since my last post I have made several breads and they came out really good. Tonite I prepared Italian Stew fixins for tomorrow's dinner. I am going to cook it in the crock pot. My mother makes great stew with red sauce. It is really good with crusty sourdough bread and a great glass of wine. Still need to get the Art of French Cooking Cookbook. QVC had some really nice cookbooks today. I always liked to read cookbooks and I am gathering a collection of them. I especially like the vintage ones.

Holy Bread

Hello Everyone and Happy New Year 2010 - I am back on the blog and hopefully I will be faithful to it.

I love to cook and bake bread! Yes , I do. I am of Italian heritage and I love to cook Italian. My grandmother was an excellent Italian cook. But, ever since I saw the movie Julie and Julia I am so excited about cooking French or at least starting to try a few French recipes. This is going out of my comfort zone entirely but I am going to at least try. I got the book the Joy of Cooking and I want to get the book by Julia Childs 'The Art of French Cooking' but it is so expensive in the book stores. So I looked on Ebay and there were some vintage ones for about $12.00. I have not ordered it yet because I have been baking bread from Father Dominic's Cookbook - Baking Bread. He is a Franciscan priest and he has the best recipes for bread. I don't use a bread machine I knead the dough myself and I love it!

I don't use any of the low cal ingredient stuff for some of the recipes. It just dosen't come out as good. I was taken by Julia Child's use of butter. So I use butter and it makes a difference.

If anyone has any easy French recipes please pass them on. I am just a beginner.
By the way, I got the title for this blog from a friend of mine on Facebook. Bye for now.