Who has time to bake?

Not this girl! A couple more years, I’ll retire, then maybe I’ll have time to cook more. Or maybe I’ll find better things to do and just eat out. Or cultivate a taste for Hungry Man TV dinners. Who knows?

But cousin Kathy & I were talking about bread the other day. And you can’t talk about bread without wanting to wallow in the yeasty smell of it baking, then eating it hot out of the oven slathered with butter. And it doesn’t make itself. (Like all those incorrect sentences beginning with conjunctions? My trademark!). BUT, I digress.

Anyway, I decided to make one of my favorite breads, that has the added benefit of being easy to make and quick to rise, Italian Parmesan Loaves.

We had these with chicken and homemade noodles, because sometimes you just can’t get enough white flour in your diet I guess. I’m not going to apologize. Look at these babies and tell me you don’t want one…or two!