Bread and Soup1: Grant Loaves and Bean Soup and later olive loaf.

It's Fall. We love fall foods so this year we are starting a bread and soup project. So far it looks like Becky will make the soups and I will make the breads. We will try to pair them together, and we work hard to find stuff at the farmer's market to plan the soups around.

Last week Becky made bean soup using the Trader Joe's bean mix and the recipe on the bag. The bean soup also had carrots, canned tomatoes, celery, onions and I think garlic. The soup was pretty good. It took a long time to cook, next time we will soak the beans ahead.

With the soup I made Grant loaves, a no knead wheat bread. I got the bread recipe from the complete book of bread and bread machines, but it originally came from . The bread was super good and really easy. I think it would have been good with a seed top.

We had soup left over and I mad an italian olive bread, also from bread and bread machines. On this I used only green pimento stuffed olives. I also added pine-nuts. It was rad! Becky said she loved it but would prefer to not have the pine nuts next time. It didn't take too long to make and was pretty easy. Next time I think I will do a better job of draining the olives before kneading them into the dough. It got a little sticky. The olive oil basted top gave it a very nice crust. It was also pretty. I should have taken a picture to post here, but I didn't know we would start a bread and soup blog.