The wife and I are huge fans if pickling. We mostly pickle onions and peppers, cause those are hard to mess up. We've talked about baking our own bread for quite a while, but have never gotten around to it. I think I should bring up the subject again.
When I pickle, I usually do several things at once, because pickling five things is barely any more difficult than pickling one thing. My most common items are cucumbers (obviously), shallots, jalapenos, cabbage, and beets. In the cucumber pickle brine, I typically toss in a couple habaneros. I haven't tried simple salt pickling; always with apple cider vinegar. I'd like to try someday, however.
Have you tried pickling red onions with red wine vinegar? Add in some bay leaves and crushed red pepper for taste and they come out amazing. And speaking of jalapenos, we recently bought some jalapeno jelly at a farmer's market and now we're tempted to try making that too. It might go great with home made bread.
Sorry for the delay. MIRACLE BREAD 5 1/4 C flour 1/2 T salt 1/4 C sugar 1&1/2 T yeast Mix all these dry ingredients together. Then add 2C water ( hottest you can get from tap) 2&1/2T oil. Mix for 5 minutes. Split and Roll into two loafs. Put in bread pans and let rise for 25 min. Preheat oven 350 degrees . Cook for 25min.
A breadmaker. Yes. I should talk her into that. I'd get sooo fat on carbs so quickly, but it'd be worth it. I keep on telling her, over and over, that we should make some soda bread. Nothing fancy. Maybe something that taste like sourdough with caraway seeds. Sodabread is like naan. You don't have to really do anything with it if you don't want to, just tear off pieces and go to town.