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Welcome to Paula's Bread
Dear Fellow Bread lovers,
Though still hot, summer vacation is over and back to school lunch and snacks have arrived. This month features ideas to make lunch more interesting and healthy snacks for you and your children!
Another idea to make your cooking more favorable is to add fresh herbs. Now, you can have it year round with your own dehydrated herbs. Learn how below!
God bless you,
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Whole Wheat Pita Bread!
Many mom's find their kids are throwing away the lunches made for them to eat at school. So here is an interesting twist for lunch to perhaps help your kids eat your lunch. Forget the routine sandwich, consider sending the whole wheat pita in the school lunch or add this wonderful new bread idea to any dinner meal! Whole wheat pita bread is easy to make and has a unique flavor. Interestingly, this one time I will tell you to flour your counter surface! Pita bread has the flour dusted flavor. You are going to love these whole wheat pita bread with your sandwich fillings.Whole Wheat Pita Bread
1 1/4 cup warm water
1/2 tsp salt
Place water, 2 cups of flour , SAF yeast and salt in Bosch Universal Plus Mixer with dough hook. Start on speed 1. Mix for 30 seconds. Add additional flour till dough makes a sticky ball. Let knead 3-4 minutes. Using oiled hands, remove dough from Bosch bowl; divide dough into tennis ball size balls. Using floured surface roll balls into 5"- 6" circles about 1/8" thick. Pick up circle dough and flip onto a floured surface. Place on cookie sheet or cooling rack with dry towel over dough circles and let rise about 20-40 minutes.
Bake at 500 degrees for 4-5 minutes. They will puff up. Remove from oven and let cool before filling with your favorite food: chicken salad, tuna salad, avocado filling....etc.!
  
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Snack Ideas!
Little Cheesettes 
Step One: Blend 2 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups finely grated cheddar cheese
2/3 cup softened butter, cut up
1 tsp soy sauce
Step Two:
Chill dough for 30 minutes. Shape into walnut sized balls and set 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Press each ball flat with tines of fork.
Bake for 12 minutes at 350 degrees.
Nutty Butter Balls!
from Lunch & Snacks by Sue Gregg
Step One:
1/2 cup date nuggets
1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup pecans
1/4 cup rolled, uncooked oats
1/4 dried coconut, unsweetened
Step Two:
3/4 cup peanut butter
2 Tbls. honey
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 non-fat dry milk powder
Step Three:
Slowly add the chopped mixture into peanut butter mixture. Remove and make walnut size balls on lined cookie sheet. Store in fridge. Ready for afternoon snacks! Yum!
Date Almond Granola Bars!!
Step One:1/2 cup canola oil  1/2 cup honey Blend over very low heat. Step Two:In Bosch Universal Mixer with cookie paddles; then add honey mixture: 4 cups rolled, uncooked oats* 1 cup chopped or sliced almonds 1 cup dates chopped 1 tsp cinnamon Step Three:Beat eggs whites till stiff and fold into granola mixture. 2 large egg whites Step Four:Press into 13 x 9" pan and bake 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Remove from oven and press down with rubber spatula. Cool and cut into bars. *Note from Paula: I used my home made granola instead of raw rolled oats. Skip the cinnamon if you use the pre-made granola. Click here for granola recipe!
Also, check out Paula's Bread social media soon for a from scratch cake to use the extra egg yolk you have from making the granola!
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Customer Corner
I received my new Bosch mixer and have been using it a lot. I LOVE IT!!!!! It is everything I hoped for and then some. I may be adding to it as well with a spare mixing bowl too. I have to wait on that a bit though. I love the bowl scraper for my Bosch and have told several friends who all have the same mixer about it. They now too will be ordering the bowl scraper attachment. Blessing to you and your family, Peg P. I ordered a Bosch kitchen machine last fall, and just wanted you to know that I LOVE it! It's so easy to use. I no longer feel like I'm going to blow up my little hand-held mixer when mixing up cookie dough. I enjoy making bread about twice a month with the Bosch. I do two batches in a row and freeze all the dough. It's so convenient to set the dough out at night, and bake it the next morning. I love that my family gets to have fresh bread nearly every day! Thank you also for including your DVD. It was very helpful to "see" the instructions and all the creative ways to use the bread dough. I've tried all the recipes, except the raisin bread. Megan G., Oakland, IL Have a customer comment you'd like to share? Email me!
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Tips for the Harried Woman
Seasons Change...in road of life
Life in the Sutton home is changing seasons. Both our moms are widowed and are in their 80s. We have for years taken care of them with household and yard work, errands, and other 'being a good kid' things. However, God is opening a new season to us as our aging mothers are both facing dementia. I think to say 'tough to watch' would be an understatement. Many of you are already experiencing elder care and understand the emotions welling inside of me even as I write. Our moms who were once vibrant and multitask machines now need help to process the simple of task. It hurts deep in my heart to watch our moms struggle. So as the four seasons change beyond our control, the cycle of life is changing and marching on.
One of the things that I have come to grips with lately is to embrace the change and know that God's grace will be present even in the dark moments. Really isn't this how we are to look at all of life?
I have realized I need to have my kids involved in the care and help them to learn new ways to honor their grandmothers in this great responsibility. Too often we want to shelter our kids from the aging process but this is a great opportunity to teach them responsibility.
You can follow my road on my blog or face book to read a several part series on the subject of caring for the aging parent.
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