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"Food" For Runners.

© Lynn Seely

First, I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Passover or Easter - whatever the case.

Runners have I got a wonderful recipe for you! This was sent to me via my emailbox and I decided to try it out. The woman that sent it said I could post the recipe here. (Thanks Mary.)

Now that most of us are out and about; running outside again (especially those of us up north) you may want to take advantage of this. With Easter coming up. a lot of us will be having family over and we need to prepare food.

Well, one of the items we usually serve with our meal is a bread. Now most of us don't have a lot of time to make home made bread - until now.

I just took a hot loaf of home made fresh baked bread out of the oven. The house is filled with the fragrance of bread and I must admit I have already sampled the bread.

It is delicious.

So how long did I have to knead the bread? Well, about 30 seconds! No fooling.

I first assembled everything I would need - then as I put the ingredients together I timed it. Total time from the mixing of the ingredients to the time it went into the pre-heated oven was about 2 minutes. Yes - 2 minutes!

Here is the deal. Instead of using yeast for the main rising agent, I used baking soda (not baking powder) and butter-milk!

Now you could not pay me to actually drink butter-milk, but if used in recipes it works out really wonderful.

I added fresh herbs and rolled oats to my recipe and brushed the top with butter and sprinkled on oats, and rosemary as well as a little sea salt.

So if you want to have a lovely, dependable home-made bread to serve with your Easter meal - try the recipe that follows. Keep in mind that the secret is to NOT knead it too much. Very important!

What does this have to do with running? Well, all runners need to eat. And a lot of us are preoccupied with food because we burn up so many calories.

Another advantage to this bread is that you may make it with whole wheat or bread flour, or just plain unbleached flour.

You may add sun dried tomatoes to it; olives & Italian spices or what ever you happen to crave. Serving lamb for dinner? Well then, add some rosemary to the lamb as well as the bread.

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