Bread – Poulsbo Documentary Family Photographer

I love baking, but I’ve never managed to make bread. I’ve made cakes, cupcakes, and cookies of all sorts. However, bread has always intimidated me. It seems to require timing, patience, finesse and – let’s face it – a certain undivided attention that I cannot manage to give. But last year I tried. Well, I took a baby step and tried out a quick bread – no yeast, no proofing, just kneading that throwing in the oven. I tried Irish Soda Bread from my absolute favorite cookbook for all things baked, The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook.

It looked a lot better than it tasted. In reality it was a bit dense and underdone but my 5 year old couldn’t tell the difference or care. We still got to bake together and he still got to eat a bit of something he helped create.

Here is the September installment of Here & Now – the day we baked.