For a long time I’ve been rambling about making art that has a practical use and is needed ( kneaded) instead of creating paintings that hang on walls and can’t provide sustenance. I was saying this because I felt frustrated because the paintings that I have spent the majority of my lifetime doing are not a needed commodity in today’s world. I made peace with this fact once I discovered that painting what you see can have a useful calming, theraputic effect on most people.
The phrase artisan bread maker caught my attention recently. I wondered if I could combine being an artist and making something that feeds people. But, I didn’t have time to learn to bake and the thought of cooking with yeast scared me.
Now that the current events happening in our world are so frightening, baking with yeast no longer scares me. So in the evenings I’ve been working quietly in my kitchen learning how to bake bread. My family are my enthusiastic bread tasters. They have even requested I make more of the cinnamon swirl bread pictured below. I came up with the name Cre Ate for my bakery but Rick thinks it could get confused with Cream Ate. What do you think? Do you bake bread? Can you share your favorite recipe with me?