I realize it is currently popular to cut carbs and even gluten, but I love baking bread.  I love the process of trying various recipes and have been exploring more recipes that require proofing the bread for longer and longer.  I find the longer a bread is proofed, the more it tastes like what I find in my local bakery.  I also love the aroma that fills the house once my bread is baked.  Instantly, when the kids walk into the house from their long school day, they smell it and smile.

The most recent recipe I made was Smitten Kitchen’s oat and wheat sandwich bread.  The recipes says that the longer the bread proofs, the better it gets.  I let mine proof for two days and it was delicious!  This is truly a nice dense bread and the kids did not mind that it was made from whole wheat flour and oats!