Tuesdays with Dorie (Our first !) ~ White Loaves

This is the first time we have posted on other than a Friday !
Today marks the inaugural posting of the newly re-launched "Tuesdays with Dorie".  They made it through the first book and are now starting up again with Dorie's wonderful "Baking with Julia".  

Nana and I are cautiously optimistic that we can keep up with the schedule, but to hedge our bets we decided to truly take turns with the Tuesday recipes.  Fridays will continue with the dual posts (notice I did not call it a "thrown down" :) but we are definitely spacing out the baking efforts and calories on this one.......


Per Nana:

A few years ago, Tricia and I both had bread machines 

which were the big rave then, but it is not quite the same as

 when you see your  own dough rising from scratch 

and become a beautiful loaf of bread.

I have to admit the size of the pans were too large

 for this recipe, but the result was great.  

Dorie mentions in her instructions to turn the bread out 

of their pans about 10 minutes before they are ready to come 

out of the oven, and believe me it makes a big difference

in the finished color of the loaf.  

It was difficult to wait for them to cool before slicing

 into the loaf, but well worth the wait. 

The first thing hubby wanted was a grilled cheese sandwich.

  I'm considering some French toast, which I love.