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Welcome to Paula's Bread
Dear Fellow Breadlovers,
With summer here, I am featuring light salads for this month and an Artisan flat bread that goes great with grilled food or your salads. No, this is not the plain old lettuce. These to 'die for' salads! You can get more great recipes this month at Paula's Bread Blog or Paula's Bread face book.
To get the fun recipes, see the plug about Paula's Bread social media. There is a contest this month and will let your name be put in the hat for your very own stainless steel bread pans! See the details below!
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Some like having only a monthly newsletter with recipes but you really don't know what you are missing! :) I post on Paula's Bread blog and face book 3 times a week. These are posts that give you tips/help on using your Bosch Universal mixer and the Bosch attachments or using the L'Equip nutrimill and other L'Equip products.
It also has lots more nutritional recipes to create for your family. I know we could all simply pick up a cook book and make wonderful creations, but isn't it more fun when someone has gone before you to let you know that the recipe really does taste good or how to make it fast and easy? Remember, fast and easy are my motto when cooking! :)
If you follow Paula's Bread twitter, you will get even more fast facts during the week to help with your baking and just fun tips for life!
So, this is a plug for following Paula's Bread blog OR liking Paula's Bread face book OR Paula's Bread Twitter.
This month there is a fun contest going on with the Paula's Bread social media. When the number magic number of 500 increase is reached for each perspective social media, all who are a part of that media will be in a drawing for FREE stainless steel bread pans! So, tell your friends to follow Paula's Bread social media, so that the drawing will happen! :)
   
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Perfect Bread for your Summer Salad! 
Flat breads, croutons and crackers are usually the typical bread served with a salad. Just as you don't want people to notice the frame rather than the picture, you don't want your bread to overwhelm your salad. Having a flat bread gives an added touch to your salad enhancing the salad rather than taking center stage.
Here is a fun flat bread...
Roasted Garlic Focaccia
by Sensible Cooking cookbook (Click here to find cookbook!)
4-6 garlic cloves
1 cup hot water
2 Tbs salt
2 Tbs olive oil
1 Tbs salt
2 Tbs raw sugar
1 cup semolina
2 cups whole white wheat flour (Click here)
2 Tbs SAF yeast (Click here)
1 Tbs rosemary (dried
Koscher salt
Note from Paula: Kosher salt is free of added ingredients but adds a coarser salt topping for your bread! In this recipe, I used all whole white wheat flour and it did just fine. The garlic flavor is sooo good and you will love it with your salads and goes well with grilled steak or chicken. Enjoy!
Homemade Croutons!
Why make a beautiful salad only to top it with stale store-bought croutons? You have got this wonderful whole wheat bread you made but unfortunately it has gotten stale. This is the prime time for a crouton!
4 slices of bread, about 1/4" thick
2 T unsalted butter
2 T oil
1 T finely chopped parsley
Cut the bread into cubes or shaped pieces. Heat the butter and oil in a frying pan over low heat. Add the bread cubes/shapes to the pan in a single layer. Saute on each side until golden, about 5 minutes. Dress up your croutons by dipping one side of the crouton into finely chopped parsley.
Another option for making croutons!
You can also simply butter sliced bread on both side and place on cookie sheet. Bake 350 degrees for about 5 min. It will make a crispy melba toast that you would simply cube into croutons. You will want to freeze them as they will mold because they are natural bread.
Making croutons with your bread is a great thing to do with your failed bread. Think bread crumbs, croutons. Neither of these require light fluffy bread. Dense bread will work just as well as light and fluffy. :)
Enjoy!
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Summer Salad Recipe Ideas!
Pear Salad! from allrecipe.com
Ingredients: 1 head leaf lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces 3 pears (peeled, cored and chopped) 5 ounces blue cheese, crumbled 1 avocado (peeled, pitted, and diced) 1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions 1/4 cup raw sugar1/2 cup pecans1/3 cup olive oil3 Tbls red wine vinegar1 1/2 tsp raw sugar1 1/2 tsp prepared mustard1 clove garlic chopped1/2 tsp saltfresh black pepper to tasteDirections: In a skillet over medium heat, stir 1/4 cup of raw sugar together with the pecans. Continue stirring gently until raw sugar has melted and caramelized the pecans. Carefully transfer nuts onto waxed paper. Allow to cool, and break into pieces. For the dressing, blend oil, vinegar, 1 1/2 teaspoons raw sugar, mustard, chopped garlic, salt, and pepper. In a large serving bowl, layer lettuce, pears, blue cheese, avocado, and green onions. Pour dressing over salad, sprinkle with pecans, and serve. Serves 6
Strawberry Salad
from Just Joy Cookbook
Ingredients:
1 head Romaine lettuce
(tear in bite size pieces)
2 cups strawberries
1 medium sized purple onion (chopped)
1/2 cup slivered almonds (toasted)
Raspberry Dressing:
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup raw sugar
1/4 cup milk
2 Tbs raspberry vinegar
1 tsp poppy seed
Combine mayonnaise, raw sugar, milk, vinegar, and poppy seeds in a jar with tightly fitting lid and shake until blended. Chill for 4 ours. Combine lettuce, strawberries, onion, and almonds in a bowl. Pour dressing over the lettuce mixture.
Serves 4-6
Note from Paula: Another plug for Paula's Bread social media...I will be featuring more tasty salads!!
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Customer Corner
I found Paula's Bread through another blog I was following, and was so excited to see her reasonable prices and quality products. I now own a Bosch and am loving it! I use it almost every day, making healthful and tasty food for our family. Paula was very helpful on the phone, informing me about different products and helping me to make a decision on attachments & parts. And the best part is that this puppy will pay for itself in about 6-12 months with the amount of whole wheat bread our family of six goes through. I love a machine that can save money and help us live healthier. Thanks, Paula!! Anne F. The more I use my Bosch Universal mixer, the more I realize that there is nothing it cannot do. From making bread to shredding chicken, it's makes cooking effortless and less time consuming. Paula's Bread equips you with everything you need to make fresh, 100% whole wheat bread and so much more. You not only get the supplies, you get the expertise of Paula to guide you through your bread making endeavor. Paula is personal, sweet, knowledgeable and passionate about her product.
Laura J., San Antonio TX Have a customer comment you'd like to share? Email me!
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Tips for the Harried Woman
I have been posting a series on WORDS on my Paula's Bread blog and/or Paula's Bread face book. This month, I share one of my thoughts on the power of words inspired by a book I read, The Power of a Woman's Words by Sharon Jaynes.
"Have you ever hugged someone and ended up wearing her perfume? We will leave a fragrance, so to speak, by the words we speak." The Power of a Woman's Word by Sharon Jaynes.
When I read this statement, it really hit home how my words/our words really do affect others around us. How many times I have hugged a dear friend or my grandma and come away with their perfume scent. The aroma scent would bring fond memories of the previous encounter. Then, I thought about how my words the good, the bad and the ugly words that would sink into the hearts of those they had touched sometimes not hours but perhaps years later. How devastating our bad and ugly words can/could become to those we speak and how uplifting for years to come those good words would grow.
Let me tackle words for the children in our lives. Notice, I said the children in our lives? This means the grandchildren, the nieces, nephews, the little people we encounter. We can impact them all with simple words. In fact, this book, The Power of a Woman's Words, challenge me as Sharon Jaynes shared numerous examples of children's lives touched by a school teacher words spoken into their lives.
Sharon Jaynes shares, "Our words do more than just make our children feel good. Our words can make them feel like somebody who can accomplish great dreams or like a nobody who is destined to be a loser....The pain from constant criticism and correction can become a chronic source of insecurity long after the child has become an adult. It is our job, our 'homework,' to instruct our children, but when we are continually pointing out their faults and failures, they tend to simply stop trying.... Oh friend, we should never be stingy when it comes to speaking good words to children, but rather sow them profusely. Scatter compliments! Plant affirmations! Sow courage! Water with kindness! Fertilize with prayer!"
Jaynes gave several suggestions on positive ways to give this affirmation and encouraging words. I think many revert to flattery which is NOT what this is about. Flattery in the long run destroys and really those who you are flattering see it as empty words. The best thing I have found to encourage my kids has come in the form of surprises. Leaving notes on their pillow, sending a note in their lunch; sending a text just to say 'I luv u'; telling them what they did right about a job that they did mostly wrong. :)
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