Mother's Day Baking

A couple weeks ago we bought a Nutrimill grain mill so we could begin milling fresh flour to use when cooking & baking.

Yesterday Katherine and I decided we wanted to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies and homemade bread, so we pulled out the Nutrimill and grain.

 In a few minutes we had fresh flour for our cookies and bread.

 Katherine & I decided we'd make the cookies first, so we dumped all the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies into our mixer and in a minute or so we had cookie dough.  Katherine placed balls of dough onto the baking sheets and I placed them into the oven. 

 After about 10 minutes in the oven I pulled out a pan of flat, but good tasting chocolate chip cookies.

If I'm involved in the cookie making process the cookies turn out flat.  Not sure why, but we've made a family decision that Wes must be in the kitchen when cookies are being made!

 It was time to redeem my baking ability and make bread.

Katherine measured out our 16 cups of flour while I made a mess getting all the other ingredients ready to pour into the mixer.  (Yes, there is more to the story, but I'm not sharing as going through it once was enough for me. Let's just say I had a hard time holding onto things!)

 After allowing the mixer to do it's work I dumped the dough onto the cutting board and divided it into five loaves.  Now it was time to let it rise.

 In the oven and ready to bake for 25 minutes.

The finished product!  And oh it is so good!