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Default How do you eat your artisan bread?


"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 20/08/2012 6:35 PM, Chemo wrote:
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>>>> My corner bakery makes a variety on interesting breads. They do not
>>>> make regular white bread or whole wheat. They have a variety of
>>>> whole grain breads with olives, leek, potato etc. I confess that I
>>>> don't buy their breads. I don't eat much bread, so it would be a
>>>> waste of good (and expensive) bread for me, but I do occasionally
>>>> have lunch there and their sandwiches are made with their bread,
>>>> and they are incredible.
>>>
>>> Seems as if you buy a sandwich...you're buying their bread.....
>>>

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>>
>> Yes. I am buying a sandwich, and there are two pieces of bead in the
>> sandwich. The bread is wonderful. I do not buy loaves of it because it
>> would be a waste, especially at $5-6 per loaf.
>>
>>
>> We have another good bakery in town where I get whole wheat and while
>> grain breads. I have been encouraging my brother to buy his bread
>> there but he says it is too expensive. It is about twice as much as
>> he pays for bread from the local supermarket bakery. The real bakery
>> bread loaves are bigger and weigh about twice as much, and they are
>> so much better.

>
> We found some excellent whole wheat bread that sells for about $3.50 at
> Costco. It's over $5.00 elsewhere. The loaves are smaller than a cheap
> bread loaf but it is fine for us when there are just two of us in the
> house. We don't always finish the loaf so I freeze the extra and make
> stuffing with it about once a month. But now that my husband is home we
> go through two loaves in a week, easily. He is a big sandwich eater.
> Daughter and I are not.


Homemade stuffing sounds delicious.


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