Since the day I left Poland I miss good breads. Though, I don’t miss it that much to be willing to pay $5 or more for a loaf. No ma’am. More likely I’m willing to learn to make my own. And I’ve tried… .
As Bob Ross in his TV show “The joy of Painting” would say: “We don’t have mistakes here, we just have happy accidents.” I go with his “ideology” in my baking journey. It really helped me in my countless tries to bake a bread. Edible one.
It happened only once before.
It was Irish Soda Bread and it was edible because I was so hungry for that bread that I would call “yummy” whatever I’d have baked that day.
Anyway, my happy accident begins a few days ago. That day we had pizza for dinner. I used only half of the dough for one very thin pizza (that’s how my husband likes it) and one very thick and fluffy (that’s how I like it). While eating my pizza I’ve noticed the crust is very bread-like. I got a little bit excited about that but having my experience in baking breads I knew I shouldn’t get too much excited 😉 So I didn’t.
I stored the rest of my pizza dough for two days in the fridge. After that I took it out and using only half of the dough I shaped it in a round ball and let it rise for a few hours until doubled in size. From the rest of that dough I made pizza (we like pizza, A LOT!)
Isn’t it a beauty!?
This is my recipe for the dough:
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp salt*
1 pkg yeast
2 cups lukewarm water
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3 cups all purpose flour**
1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour**
*If you make it just for pizza skip the salt.
** plus extra flour (which ever you prefer) if the dough is still too sticky
How to make it:
dissolve sugar and yeast in large bowl; let stand until bubbly
add oil
stir in the flour and knead until smooth
turn into greased bowl and let rise covered in a warm place until doubled
cut into 4 or 2 pieces (it depends on how big bread loafs you want)
knead again
shaped in long or round shapes
put it on greased baking pan
let rise until doubled*
bake in 400 F for 30 minutes or until the skin is golden brown.
*if you making pizza you don’t have to make that dough to rise twice. one time is totally enough.
Sometimes when I make pizza I add fresh herbs and different spices to the dough. What to add is really up to personal likes and dislikes. Feel free to experiment 🙂
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21 responses to ““Happy Accident” Bread”
Ohhhh, that looks YUMMY!
thanks! it was acually not that bad tasting bread. I have to admit that it wasn’t the best I’ve ever ate, but I’m really happy with this one. It made my ego to go up a bit and wanting to try more 🙂
I love pizza and have tasted a variety of bread. The one above looks delicious. I am a new Follower of your Blog and also of your Facebook Fan Page. I learnt about your Blog on the Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop. Have a good day.
Judy, thank you for the follow. I appreciat it. Hope you’ll like it here 🙂
This bread looks amazing, I love home made bread! And Bob Ross… gee, so many memories. I loved that show! I could never paint, but I loved watching it!
we used to watch that show with my husbnad. neither of us can paint, but watching him was just a wonderful experience. such a relaxing one 🙂 he’s (was) an amazing painter! thanks for stopping by 🙂
YUMMY!!! Thanks for the recipie! I think I am going to try it for both bread and Pizza!! Happy Tuesday!
Happy Tuesday to you, too! Thanks for stopping by and good luck with the bread!
I never thought of making pizza dough into a loaf and baking it as bread. Great idea!
=)
I’ve tried in once before, but it didn’t work. It seems like I always have problems with the right temperature. Finally I “got” it 🙂
That looks great! I am printing this out too. I have had a craving more good bread. I enjoy making my bread, I just don’t take the time to do it very often. Thank you for taking the time to post this!
I hope it will come out good 🙂
It looks absolutely delicious indeed. YUM! I am glad you are able to make it and save the money. $5 sounds CRAZY!
yeah… that’s how breads cost here in Panera Bread for example… . As much as like a few kinds from there I really don’t like paying that much for a loaf.
Oh my goodness that looks so good.. I am definitely going to have to try this!!
thank you! good luck with that recipe 🙂
Hi! I was not here for some time and I see that your photos look great, as always. Your bread looks delicious, thanks for sharing:)!
Thank you for your kind message on my blog!
Hi Elisabeth! thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Love the idea of Happy Accident bread. I make my pizza dough by buying the uncooked dough from Trader Joe’s! I have used it to make breadsticks before and its totally easy.
Nom! That looks SO good! Stopping by from The Mom Pledge blog hop! 🙂
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