Dandelion Bread - You Have to Try This, It's Scrumptious!

As I've mentioned several times recently, I've been planning to make some dandelion bread from the abundance of dandelions we always have in our yard and in the field behind the house. Well, we finally to got to try it.

I had plenty of help picking the dandelions. They look so serious in this first photo, like they are on a very important mission.

Here is our harvest.

I took these in and pulled of the stems and leaves and then washed them. I then meaured them and there were about three cups of flowers.

Then I cut the bottom off each flower so that I was left with mostly the yellow part. I didn't worry about it if a little green got in with the flower, I just didn't want those large green parts mixed in. This left me with almost two cups of flowers petals.

After lunch the kids helped mix up the batter for dandelion bread.

Batter in the pan, waiting to go in the oven.

And here's the final product!

Absolutely delicious warm from the oven with butter and honey! I also had some toasted this morning and it was yummy that way too.

And now here's the recipe.

4 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 - 2 cups dandelion petals

1/2 cup vegetable oil

3/4 cup honey

2 eggs

2 2/3 cups milk

 Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Combine dry ingredients, including dandelion petals, in large bowl. In seperate bowl mix milk, beaten eggs, honey and vegetable oil. Add to dry ingredients and mix well. Pour batter into two greased bread pans. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes. Check for doneness. If not quite done lower temperature to 350 and continue baking, checking every five minutes.

Enjoy!

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In the Kitchen - Making Homemade Croutons

I love to make bread with my bread machine. Freshly baked bread served with our meals has been a real hit. But we always seems to have a few slices left over that no one would eat later. I felt like I was wasting so much good food.

We also love chef salads and croutons are a necessity for a good chef salad.

So I started brousing through one of my favorite recipes sites - allrecipes.com after reading through a number of recipes decided that making croutons from the leftover bread would be pretty easy to do. Basically I simply cube the bread slices (I also use the crusts from the loaves of whole wheat bread that we buy for sandwiches), pour melted butter over the cubes, and sprinkle it all well with Italian Seasoning, and put it in the oven preheated to 350 degrees. I let them bake until they are nice and crispy and then serve them with salads. My family loves them and often just eat the croutons as a snack without any salad.