Me a cook??!!??

So I am always trying to cook and make "normal" things a little bit more healthy for our family. For the most part I have been able to make the conversion over to turkey and eliminate red meat from our diet. I have been successful at the switch to whole wheat pasta. I have even been able to get my kids to eat their veggies at most meals....but today I think I went a little too far.

I don't claim to be a great cook...but I do like to pride myself on baking. I make amazing cookies and muffins. My husband goes crazy when I bake. Today though I had some leftover bananas from last week that were needing to be made into bread. I looked into my pantry and had all the ingredients except for white flour. All I had left was wheat flour. I paused for a moment then decided to take the leap and see where this new trail would leave me. Now a side note I have been baking with wheat flour for a little over a year but only at 50% keeping white flour as the other 50%. Today though I threw all caution to the wind and went all in....100% wheat flour.

The dough was very watery and looked a little...well bumpy is the only word that comes to mind. But I didn't stall and put it right into the oven. About 30mins into baking smoke was coming out of the oven. The dough had rose and was pouring out of the top of the baking pan. This didn't even slow me. I grabbed a baking tray and slapped the bread pan on it and stuck it right back into the oven. At the hour mark I pulled out my bread and stood there with totally and complete shock at this pile of...well it looked like poop. So I do what all great bakers do...flipped that bad boy over and tried to serve it to my kids. Right kids will eat anything...NOT! Cooper took one bite of this bread and took it right out of his mouth, looked at me with a very sad face, and said "Yucky Momma"...yucky Momma...really?! When did my 2 year old become a food critic! So then came Rob. He will always be honest with me or at least just not eat it to give me a tiny hint! After eating a half of the loaf his response was "Your bread looks like S#!t but boy does it taste good"....Success!!!!

The lesson I learned is though it may not look the greatest (enjoy the picture) taste trumps all!