Credentials for women.

[Gregory Matthews]

Another personal comment:

My sons (I had two boys) still remember those days. My second son as a result knows that it is O.K. for a man to be in the kitchen. <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/luxhello.gif" alt="" />

[Nicodema]

Gregory - it would be fun for you and my boyfriend to have a cook-off! Sounds like you both are handy in the kitchen, although I have to say I don't think he's ever made bread or piecrust from scratch.

Smart parents, yours!

Happy Sabbath.

Nico

[Nan]

Hey let's make it a CA cook off and I will send Sammy who does most of the main meal fixing in this house - and very well too. It does have a largely Indonesian flavour....

(Sammy is officially 'retired' though he does have voluntary pastorate of a small church, and I am still working fulltime - and his ministry in the kitchen is hugely appreciated. I think his skills developed from working in the kitchen when he was at college.)

[Dr. Shane]

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to prepare a meal, to wash and repair his own clothing,

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Saddly, many girls today cannot even do this. I think it is part of the oversexualization of society. Society use to think any woman that was a good cook could hook a husband and keep him. Now they are focused on something else she must be good at

[Gregory Matthews]

Re: "making bread from scratch"

Those were the days when you had to punch the dough down. Now one can just dump the indregedients into the machine, and walk off.

[Dr. Shane]

I can't even get my wife to dump the ingrediants in the machine. If we are going to have fresh bread in my house it is because I am making it. Which reminds me, I need to use that yeast before it expires

[aldona]

My mom & dad have a sign in their kitchen that says "This is an equal opportunity kitchen." And they live up to it - sometimes the best fancy dishes served to Sabbath guests or cakes baked for school bake sales have come from my dad.

But as for my husband (who is an only child and whose mom did everything for him until the moment I married him)...if I start using words like "cook", "wash" and "iron" in reference to him, he looks as startled as if I had used other (more vulgar) 4-letter words..... <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/seenoevil.gif" alt="" />

aldona

[Nicodema]

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Gregory Matthews said:

Re: "making bread from scratch"

Those were the days when you had to punch the dough down. Now one can just dump the indregedients into the machine, and walk off.

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Yeah well no "dump-bread" for me ... when I've made bread from scratch it's been yeast, whole grains, and a WHOLE LOTTA POUNDING ... and generally an all-day affair from early morning to early evening to complete the project, leaving the kitchen an absolute wreck ...

[Gregory Matthews]

Yes, in those days, making bread did take hours.

Yes, we do have a bread machine, and we have used it some in the past. I am not really knocking it.

Today, we live in an area that has a chain of speciality bread bakeries. I believe that it is called Greaat Harvest. We purchase a f air amount of bread from them.

Right now we have three different loaves of bread that we have bought from then in our bread box--a rye, a chili cheese type, and a bread with cherries. Yes, we do buy more traditional breads from them.

NOTE: For those of you who purchase from them. Different stores use different recipies. E.g. In one store a specific bread may be 100% whole wheat, and in another it may not be. My wife takes this into considration as to the store where she buys thier bread.

[Nicodema]

No, I'm not knocking the bread machine either, Gregory -- although the breads I've sampled from others' machine-made really did not appeal to me (and in at least one case, made me physically nauseated, not sure why).

It's been several years since I baked homemade bread. I had a friend where I used to live who I got together with a couple times and we made it together -- makes it a lot less lonely and a lot more fun! This was back during the last time I tried to come back to the Lord (early 90s) (which obviously didn't work out for me but that's in the past now) and I would take loaves around to neighbors along with a copy of "Steps to Christ". They probably all thought I was NUTS!!! ("Why is the neighborhood 'sorceress' handing out bread and books about Jesus???" -- LOL -- I gave some to the gay couple next door too -- LOL!!) Anyway ... I had a recipe for "four seed bread" from another friend -- it was whole wheat with four different seeds in it. Can't remember what, now -- I think one was millet and one was sunflower -- anyway it made for a DELICIOUS "nutty" rich bread that was absolutely addictive simply thick-sliced and toasted with butter. Mmmmmm!!!

When I go back to school later this year I intend to make my own bread again. It's a great way to spend a Sunday.

[Nicodema]

Just having a chuckle at how this thread has morphed -- from women's ordination to BREAD MAKING!!!! *ROFL*

[Gregory Matthews]

I have a basic philosophy that says: "Go with the flow."

[Nicodema]

Or in this case ... go with the DOUGH!

[Gregory Matthews]

Do you think that we have enough comedy in us to hit the entertainment circuit?