Adventures in Whole Wheat

When I graduated from (homeschool) high school, my parents wanted to give me a graduation present. At the time, I was 17 or 18 and planning with great anticipation a bright future of homemaking and childraising, and I knew exactly what I needed to achieve instant success in all my homemaking and childraising tasks: a Kitchenaid stand mixer. So that's what I received. Probably one of the best gifts ever.

A few years later, once I learned that the wheat flour you buy in grocery stores is as nutritionally dead as white flour, I decided I wanted the wheat grinder attachment for my mixer. That's what Joe gave me for my twenty-first birthday.

Now, I have the ability to make my own supremely healthy, none-of-the-nutrients-have-evaporated-yet whole-wheat flour, a prerogative which I ignore approximately 10 months out of the year.

This month is one of my Yay Let's Eat Healthy and Have Good Bread months, or maybe just Wow, I Sure Do Consume A Lot of Peanut-Butter-and-Banana Sandwiches, So I Should Probably Ditch the White Bread month. To celebrate, here are some pictures.

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Fresh whole-wheat bread that would be delicious if it weren't slightly burnt

By the middle of last week, I was doing awesome at bread and wanted to try something more challenging. And I decided...what could be more challenging than figuring out how to create edible sugar-free honey-sweetened whole wheat pancakes?

 

The scrumptious-looking strawberries 'n cream pancakes are Joe's. The pancakes with the weird black lumps are mine. Those are actually bluish-purple lumps, and they're blueberries, and they were the best part. 

Maybe it was just the recipe, but sugar-free honey-sweetened whole wheat pancakes aren't as good as they sound. They weren't fluffy, and they had the texture of a foam mousepad.

But we did find a use for them.