Today I tried out my new cast iron pot and made apple bread. Actually I started the bread making process yesterday as the dough take about 18 for the first rise. The second rise took only an hour and a half, and so was finished today at about 2:30pm. I took the liberty of altering the original recipe by adding a little cinnamon and allspice, because really....apples without at least cinnamon is boring and not worth eating. It turned out great! Cinnamon brown on the outside and pale yellow on the inside with sprinkles of spices and chunks of apples. It came out super moist. I loved it and so did my Mr. Wonderful. We decided to eat the whole loaf as it tis better to gorge on carbs one day, rather than eat it little by little risking adding to our waist lines. It's kind of like halloween candy; you're supposed to eat as much as you can in one night because your body can only retain so much in one day. If you ate some little by little until it was all gone you'd gain at least five pounds. That would be no bueno.
Anyway....it was fun and I have to thank the person who gave me the bread making book and cast iron pot. I love it, and will be making it again, once I've put on a few more pounds of muscle and right before I go on a long (like ten miles) run.
This year I've actually decided to go glutten free, so that means I'll be giving up wheat, corn, and soy (not that any human should EVER eat soy). I will allow myself the occasional bread loaf, but under the guise of an impending extremely hard workout or long run. My ultimate goal is to lose 5 pounds of fat and gain 5 pounds of muscle or maybe ten depending on how it looks on me. I'm not trying to be a scary body builder type, just alluring, curvy, and very toned.
It's only day 2 of the new year, and so far I'm not off to a great start, but it is Sunday, so tomorrow I will hit the ground running. Hopefully it will be a literal running and not figurative.
Getting Her Best Body Tomorrow,
Leah
