A long time ago, in the first few days of my reaching the American shores, I went up to the Subway counter to order lunch, “Wheat or White?” I had not the foggiest what I was being asked…wheat-or-white what? So began my introduction to the land of mind-boggling choices (and fractioned sentences)! Actually, it happened on the way itself, when the stewardess asked, “regular or decaf?” Ahem, err…regular what? And what the heck was decaf, anyway? But, I am quite sharp, you see. I looked at the carafe in her hand, and decided to settle for regular till I figured out what decaf was. Turned out, I had made the right choice.
Like I noted earlier, last week was a lot of cooking from my favourite blogs. I make my own bread, dinner rolls, and pizza often. When I read that the ‘brown’ bread we were eating was not necessarily much different from the white one, I stopped buying that. But some times you want bread and would like to eat it guilt free. Of course, roti is healthier since you do not need to add oil/butter or salt into the dough. But bread is bread.
Naturally, I substitute whole wheat flour, by at least half, in every recipe that calls for all purpose flour. So, the other day my son suggested that I should bake a 100% white bread the next time (presumably, to check if the reason for the denser texture was his mother’s baking or really the whole wheat flour!).
Actually, even I wanted to know.
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