Tools

I was going to share with you my bread recipe and as I was preparing it I realized that I use a lot of different tools and supplies that you might not find in every grocery store. So I thought I should tell you about those first and discuss them.


First I use a Bosch. If you are unfamiliar with what a bosch is or what it can do....stay tuned because I use it for so many things. It is so amazing I just love it. I had one years ago that I inherited from my sister-in-law and I really loved it, but when it quit working I really didn't understand how much difference there was between it and a kitchen-aid. So my wonderful husband bought me a new kitchen-aid and I used it a lot, but there were things about it that I didn't like. So after awhile I finally convinced my husband that I needed a new bosch. The following Christmas I got my new Bosch and a Nutrimill grinder, and have had no regrets since. I gave away my Kitchen-aid and haven't missed it one day.


















The mixing bowl on the left side is large enough to mix enough dough for 6 loaves of bread at once or whip as little as one egg white.



The Bosch has many attachments one of which is the blender. The blender can mix both wet and dry goods. I use it to make potato flour from potato buds, and milk flour from powders milk.












There is a specific reason I show you these. In my bread I use both potato flour and milk flour/powder. If you don't have a bosch, no worries you can buy these flours in a specialty cooking shop.


I did already mention that I also have a Nutimill. When I was growing up I loved white bread. I didn't know the first thing about white flour, wheat, wheat flour, the nutrition of or what it took to make any of it. I knew my mom made the most delious white roll I had ever tasted and I think I could eat a dozen of them straight out of the oven, well maybe not a quite a dozen but close! Well I know now that white flour has no nutritional value. Wheat flour starts to loose its nutritional value from the time it is ground, and the more heat that is generated when it is ground the faster it looses its nutrition. So that all being said that is why I own a Nutrimill. It uses air to blast the wheat instead of metal to grind, which in turn produces less heat. And it allows me to grind my wheat as I need it.














I have already given you a great recipe for spanish rice cooked in a Kuhn Ricon pressure cooker. I love pressure cooking. I don't have a lot of time so anytime I can cut my cooking time down to nearly nothing, in half, or make a good recipe great, I am all for it. Pressure cooking allows me to be able to do that. I have had a few different types of pressure cookers. When I got my first Kuhn Ricon, I have to admit, I got rid of my other pressure cookers. They are so easy to cook with, I just love them. I am including the link directly to the Kuhn Ricon website, but there are a lot of sites that you can go to that sell these great cookers. http://www.kuhnrikon.com/


The only other tools that I can really think of that are really important are the spices that I use and thoses I will discuss as I go through each recipe. I hope that this helps. Now don't go telling your spouces that you need to go buy all this new stuff, but it sure would make it a lot easier!