Father's day lunch.

Today I figured I would try something new for lunch. Mainly because I have loads of fresh cabbage and potatoes.

So after some searching online I found a recipe for sausage, potato and cabbage soup. But there has to be something to go with soup for lunch. So I decided to make bread, the difference this time is I put aside my bread machine. Honestly, the soup was the easy part! Even the mistake I made, 6 cloves of garlic instead of 1, worked out nicely.

The best part of this soup is it was easy, and everyone loved it! My husband did not even add any hot sauce or anything to it. The real adventure for today was the bread. I make bread on a regular basis, but I depend on my machine. This time I put away my machine and did it all by hand. This was the first time I made bread this way. Once again I found the recipe online, and I could not be happier with it. I started with activating my yeast, which I had not done before.

When I did this step I was a little nervous, but it worked out very well. The only machine I used was my stand mixer to combine the yeast and all the dry ingredients.

 After the first rise, I knew that things where working out like they should.

The final product was great, and paired well with the soup. This is a great hearty bread, and when combined with the soup it was a great lunch.