Seven Breads for Seven Days

A Family's Introduction to

Our Everyday Bread Bundle

The Everyday Bread Bundle is a selection of our most popular bread mixes.  We have over 100 bread mixes that can be baked in the oven or in a bread machine. The bundle allows you to choose what you want. It's a seven-day mix-and-match starter kit —ways you can use your breads, starting with the Raspberry Sandwich. 

The breads are starter-priced at only $2.99 per mix. You save up to 50%!

 

 Get your starter kit here, select what your family will love, and save up to 50%!

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Suggestions for You and Your Family

Day 1.

It's Monday. The best thing you can do today is make a Raspberry Sandwich. It will change your day- raspberry rubies on a cream cheese bed, grilled in butter with just a touch of sugar until the sandwich is crisp. You want the cream cheese whipped until soft with just enough sugar to sweeten the cream cheese and lift the tartness of the raspberries.

It's how you start your week, with something special, something memorable. You'll remember Monday.

 

Day 2

It's Tuesday. It looks like breakfast, but maybe it's lunch.  That's Apple Pie French Toast.  It's an easy meal. Apple pie in your French toast. Nobody does this. You do."

Make a sandwich on your homemade bread. You can use apple pie filling or Apple Pastry Filling.  

Make an egg wash: one large egg for each quarter cup of milk. Soak your sandwich in the egg wash, 30 seconds to a minute per side, then lift it out and onto the hot griddle.

Cook it on medium heat until the egg mixture is set and the bread is crispy. Drizzle it with maple syrup or maybe a little buttermilk syrup. Since this is an adventure week, drop a dollop of cinnamon whipped cream on your French toast.

It's going to be a good Tuesday.

 

Day 3

It's Wednesday--Panzanella Day. They're famous Italian salads.  They work with any of your seven breads. 

Invite someone over. Panzanella is just bread, tomatoes, and whatever looks good at the market. There's no wrong way to make it. Toss in cucumbers, basil, red onion, a drizzle of good olive oil. You're an artist. Have fun. Impress your friends.

That opens the world, mixing bread with your salad. Your friends will be impressed--bread pieces mixed into salad! It's more of a meal with the bread added. Panzanella may be Italian, but you can make a bread salad with any salad and any bread.  

You don't need a recipe to get started. But here are some ideas you can share with them to get started:  

How to Make Panzanella and Other Bread Salads.

 

Day 4

It's Thursday. It's time for a new type of sandwich.  They're called Monte Carlo Sandwiches.

 

Day 5 

It's Friday. Time to get ready for the weekend--how to make burgers like you've never made them before.  

These are homemade burger buns and you can make them with any bread mix.  Like homemade bread, homemade burger buns are way better than store-bought burger buns.  And it's not just that they are homemade; you can use any bread mix.  We'll show you how.

Make buns with your favorite bread.  Chances are, they'll make your favorite burgers too. 

The burger above, the one on the left, is made with a Salsa Bread Mix- the salsa is in the dough. That makes for unique burgers. The one on the right is made with a Black Russian Bread Mix, a type of rye bread. 

Two of our other favorites are buns made with Sour Cream Onion bread dough and Diego's Jalapeno Cheese bread dough.  

It's not only burger buns, but you're looking at some of the best sandwich buns on the planet.

They're really simple to make. If you can make dinner rolls, you can make burger buns. You make them the same way, except they're shaped slightly differently.  Oh, and there is one other difference. If you choose, you can make them on the deck in your BBQ grill.

See how to make homemade hamburger buns.

See how to bake your buns on the deck.

Day 6

It's Saturday. It's a lazy family day with the kids.

What do the kids like? I know that kids like cheese sandwiches. Restaurants serve them, and moms order them.  They seem to make kids happy.

But I'm a dad. If a dad wants to make a kid happy with a cheese sandwich, he'd better talk to a mom.

I learned that I knew nothing about making kids' grilled cheese sandwiches. So I made a list. It's an amazing list. This is what I learned.

1. Use American cheese or a mild cheddar blend that melts super creamy.  Use a mix of cheeses so that it pulls into those long, gooey strings that kids love.
2. And a pinch of sugar to the butter before spreading it on the outsides of the sandwich. That helps it caramelize and turn golden without burning. The little sweetness helps balance the cheese flavor.
3. Butter the bread generously on the outside. Then cook it low and slow so that the cheese melts before the bread burns.
4. Let the sandwich rest for a minute after cooking and before cutting. It's still soft enough for kids but less gooey and messy.
5. Cut it into shapes or strips after it's cooked. That makes a big difference. For a kid, three-bite sizes are just right. You could use a cookie cutter, but then you have drops. Plain sandwiches are boring; shapes are exciting. Triangles are perfect.

 

Day 7

It's Sunday.  It's been a great week; let's wrap it up.

You probably have leftovers. Don't waste them; use them or freeze them. Gather all these pieces, and we'll make a bread pudding you can share with your family. The bread doesn't have to match; a mixed bread pudding is fine.  

If you have more leftovers than what you need for your bread pudding recipe--and we'll share four recipes with you- put them in a plastic bag and freeze them. You can make more bread pudding or make croutons with those pieces.  

A Primer For Making Bread Pudding

Here you'll find instructions for making bread pudding plus the following four recipes.

• Boston Creme Pie Bread Pudding
• Cranberry Vanilla Bread Pudding
• German Chocolate Bread Pudding
• Pumpkin Walnut Bread Pudding