Turning Homemade Bread Into Grilled Cheese

 I apologize for being absent the last few days. I have been working on some more recipes for my Breadmaking for Beginners Series on our YouTube channel. I have so much coming up and I hope you will enjoy them. This day, I practiced making loaves with my 5-minute No Knead Bread Dough because I was also helping my mother. Just as a backstory, my mother was diagnosed with Leaky Gut Syndrome several months ago. The bad part is, that she hid it from me. She felt she was bothering me and didn't want me to know. She felt as though she was a hindrance. The only person who knew anything about it was her neighbor. Are you kidding me? She had already been sick for several weeks when I found out. I told her to never do that to me again. My mother has never been nor ever will be a bother to me or my sisters nor a hindrance. She took care of us all our years growing up, and now I felt it was my turn.  She informed me of her and her doctor's regimen. Then I came in with a little more. One thing on her regimen was to cut out all processed foods. Now, she is like me, we LOVE OUR BREAD! I was in the middle of my breadmaking journey and that's when I included her. I quickly started teaching her how to make her own bread with healthier flour and ingredients. Fresh bread, not store-bought. Now, you may be thinking that she should know how to make bread. Let me say this, my momma was a youngest child who had two older brothers. She was a tomboy and had no desire to be in the kitchen growing up. LOL. She doesn't enjoy cooking and never has, but she fed us and we are alive and well. LOL!  I still learned how to make simple things from her growing up just by watching her. Some women have no desire to cook and that's ok. Every woman has their own talents. My mother's talent is, being a PRAYER WARRIOR.  She never failed to take us to church and taught us to sing in church. I could sit and listen to my mother sing all day. I still remember some of the songs she used to sing in church. God Walks the Dark Hills is one of those songs. Boy, as a young girl, she gave me goosebumps singing that song. It is still a precious memory of mine. 

Sorry, for getting off track. I do that sometimes. I'm like a squirrel. Back to homemade bread. I started my momma out on a simple dough because she needed it simple and quick. She does not have a stand mixer. The 5-Minute No Knead Bread Dough was perfect for her to start out on. She has been practicing and really enjoying it so much. She is having fun and she is so proud of herself and her accomplishments. You know what? SO AM I! She has come a long way. She will send me pictures of her loaves and she is so proud and excited. She is doing well on her journey of healing her gut and getting so much better. We started making small changes wherever we could and changing a lot of things to   HOMEMADE  using better ingredients made a lot of difference. You see, we get spoiled with convenience foods and processed quick foods that are not good for us. So was her case. Over the years it caught up with her. It's going to catch up to all of us if we are not careful. 

She made other changes according to her doctor and he was on board with my help too of just making some changes in the way we cooked and baked for her. 

Here as you can see, we took homemade bread and turned it into awesome grilled cheese. She also loves taking her loaves and just having a slice toasted with some no-sugar strawberry jam. I am so glad she is on the mend and doing so much better. She has promised to never leave me in the dark again about her health. She sees how much I have helped and could help her change. We also went about in her kitchen and reorganized it so she does not have to take so many steps in the kitchen. What I mean is, we put things into zones. We arranged things according to where things were in her kitchen and put things in better reach for her. She does not need to be stooping down and lifting heavy items to a high counter. They are now level and this is just one of the many changes we made for her. She is loving her new organization in her kitchen and has thanked me more than several times. I am so glad to be able to help my little momma and take care of her and my daddy. After all, he is benefiting too from the dietary changes and organization. Now, can he find anything? Probably not. It will take some getting used to but he is loving it as well. 

Just take a gander of this grilled cheese. It was delicious and my momma is learning to make different things with her simple dough as well. Now, we will move up a little and begin at the intermediate level. The timing of my breadmaking series could not have been better and I know God had his hands in it as well. We are learning together and having fun in our kitchens. She is going to be practicing making more things as well. She will be moving up to making a kneaded dough now. She said she will have no problem doing it by hand and she is looking forward to it. 

Feel free to join us in our journey by watching my videos on our channel in my Breadmaking for Beginners Series. I will link some below that are new and a link to the whole series for you as well. We would love to have you and thanks for hanging out with me in this post as well. 

You can find the whole breadmaking series here 

I hope you enjoy them.