Early last week, I finally sent out an email to close friends telling how my passion of bread baking is now accessible to them! They can buy their very own loaf of bread I bake from my little yellow kitchen in my little orange house. It's taken me at least two months to actually send the email. Why? Because in the back of my head there's this little voice that says things like, "Do you really think people will buy that? Do you really think your bread is good enough?" I finally had to slap it and just send the email. What's the worst that could happen? No one buys any. Well, a couple of people responded and I was pumped! Then the other worst happened...every single bread I made, failed. I'm not joking...six loaves in a row. Not done completely, over-proofed, looked butt ugly, just failures. I kept telling myself this is a test, one of many I'm sure, to see if I will push through and I'm pushing through. I collected myself and decided I was rushing it and needed to rethink my recipes and approach. Therefore, I bought this:
It's a game changer. My first scale! I am now trying new recipes using weights as measurements and so far so good. This was the first bread I did with the new love of my life (the scale).
Since it's for my mother and father, I'm doing everything I can not to eat it. Next up is beer bread!
This is a link to a Ted Talk about shame, definitely check it out if you ever have that voice in your head telling you you can't. After watching it...slap the voice.
