Good bread recipes?

Anyone have any good and healthy bread recipes? I don't have a bread maker but I've always wanted to try making my own because it just seems so much more healthier than buying the sugar laced high fructose corn syrup laced bread from the store

But but but... you live in Austin! You can go to Whole Foods and get their Rustic Italian! Pre-sliced for sandwiches, and it also makes the best toast ever.

I haven't made bread from scratch in ages, but my favorite thing to do is replace most of the water in a simple white bread recipe with chianti and add some chopped walnuts. Sounds bizarre, I know, but it's great -- especially if you toast it lightly and make a Swiss-cheese-and-lettuce sandwich with it! (Not my own idea, though... I stole it from a wonderful bakery in Grapevine [Texas] called Breadhaus.)

I haven't actually looked at the bread at Whole Foods. We usually don't shop there because its kind of pricey. I might have to go one morning during the week and look at their bread selection. We went to Central Market last weekend and I got some of their pumpkin bread. I love me some pumpkin bread and theirs was pretty good, at least I thought.

Since I work at a breadshop two days a week, most bread is made with flour, yeast,salt and water. No sugar.
Check out King Arthur Flour's website and get their catalog. They have mixes for all sorts of things too. Best place I've found. Their cookbooks (mainly baked goods) are great too.

Originally Posted by CarolPetunia

But but but... you live in Austin! You can go to Whole Foods and get their Rustic Italian! Pre-sliced for sandwiches, and it also makes the best toast ever.

I haven't made bread from scratch in ages, but my favorite thing to do is replace most of the water in a simple white bread recipe with chianti and add some chopped walnuts. Sounds bizarre, I know, but it's great -- especially if you toast it lightly and make a Swiss-cheese-and-lettuce sandwich with it! (Not my own idea, though... I stole it from a wonderful bakery in Grapevine [Texas] called Breadhaus.)

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I went to Whole Foods yesterday and bought a loaf of the Rustic Italian. So far it looks good, but I haven't tried it yet. You want to know how to tell if it's good bread? If Zelda starts trying to get into it! She always knows when it's good bread because as soon as I bring it home she'll get on the counter and starts chewing open the plastic to eat the bread. Luckily I caught her in the act when she was just chewing on the plastic and I hid it so she can't get to it. I've noticed she has a liking to good sourdough bread as well LOL. But only if it's good bread. If I buy cheaper loaves of bread she wants nothing to do with it. It's her gift, I guess.

Dottie used to bake all our bread, but that was years ago.

She has a breadmaker, and my personal favorite is Sally Lund bread. Look it up; the recipe is all over the place.