Wild and crazy south of the border bread!!!

I got this recipe from the Sunbeam website (they made my bread machine. Mia, get a bread machine). I am going to make turkey burgers tonight (recipe following!) and serve it on this bread since the bread WORKED.

Makes a 2-lb loaf.

1 C room temp water (70-80 degrees F)
1 C whole kernel corn, thawed
2 T butter/margarine, softened
2 T canned chopped green chilies
4 cups bread or white flour
1/2 C cornmeal
2 T sugar
1 1/2 t salt
2 t bread machine yeast

Pour water into bread machine pan. Add butter/margarine, corn and chilies. Add flour, cornmeal, and sugar all at once. On one side of the pan add salt to top of flour. On the other side add the yeast. Put pan in bread machine and choose basic setting (or equivalent) for 2-lb loaf, choose your crust color if necessary. Then let your bread bake while you do exciting things like weed the garden!!!!

Whole wheat bread in the bread machine

This recipe comes directly from the recipe book that came with my bread machine, I use the recipe often. My bread machine is a Sunbeam brand and you may have to tweak the recipe a bit based on the settings/size of yours but not too much. (Mia! Get! A bread machine!)

Something to note on this recipe is that it's very touchy, as whole wheat recipes tend to be. If conditions aren't right the bread may not rise as well as it should. It'll be edible, just more...uh...like a brick? Ha. It's best to make it on a dry day rather than a humid day and sometimes it's a good idea to add a touch more water than the recipe calls for. As far as yeast make sure you keep your yeast in the fridge sealed REALLY well in the jar. That's key especially for wheat/heavy flour breads.

1 C + 2 T water (75-85 degrees)
1 T + 1 1/2 t butter/margarine, softened
1/4 C firmly packed light brown sugar
1 1/4 tsp salt
3 1/2 C whole wheat flour *
2 1/4 tsp bread machine yeast

Place ingredients in the pain in this order: water, butter, sugar, salt, and flour. Make an indentation w/your finger on one side of the flour. Add the yeast to the dent, making sure it doesn't come into contact w/liquid ingredients. Insert pan into breadmaker and close lid. Choose the "whole wheat" setting on your bread machine, choose 1.5 lb loaf size (if yours has this setting) and also choose crust color (also if yours has this setting). Press the start button and VOILAAAAAAA you will have real whole wheat bread in about 3 1/2 hours!

*As I've stated before I always, always use King Arthur flours, especially for whole wheat (they also have white wheat which is whole wheat but they...do something to it?) KA flour is really fine and MUCH easier to rise than some of the other whole wheat flours.

Pizza dough, the bread machine version

1 C warm water
3/4 t salt
2 T olive or vegetable oil
3 C whole wheat flour *
2 t bread machine yeast
cornmeal (if desired)

*This recipe actually calls for white or bread flour. However, being the rebel I am, I tried 100% KA whole wheat and it worked out fine. I've tried various combos of whole wheat/white flour (sometimes 50/50, etc) and it always came out fine. Carlos prefers white so I make it that way these days but whatever you want to use is good. All I recommend if you use whole wheat is that you use King Arthur or something similar; it's much finer than Hodgson Mills brand which is very hard to rise.

Use 1-lb recipe if your brad machine holds 10 C or less of water. Add ingredients to the bread machine pan in the order suggested by the manufacturer (I add them...in the order they are on the recipe!!!)

Put bread machine on dough cycle. When cycle is complete, remove douth to lightly floured surface. If necessary, knead in additional flour to make dough easy to handle.

Lightly oil the pizza pan(s), springkle with cornmeal. NOTE: This recipe makes enough for 1 regular-sized pizza pan. I sometimes double the recipe if Carlos wants his own pizza. Roll or press to fit into prepared pizza pan(s). Add toppings, bbake at 400 20-30 mins until done.

I have another dough recipe that is not for the bread machine. I just need to find it!