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When I first met fellow Blogger "Flour Power" Joyce... We hit it off immediately...both of us Italians who love to eat and who love to Bake... Only one problem....Joyce makes everything from scratch....while I use the "doctor" theory of Baking... Now as you all know I do bake my own bread and bake many many things from scratch... From my Jersey Crumb Buns to my "signature dessert" Pistachio Cream puffs.... Sometimes using the easy way out comes out just fine... All you have to do it put in a little extra effort... I use this same method for banana bread and blueberry muffin mix.... We refer to each other as Betty Crocker... And of course I'm Sandra Lee minus the blond hair I was meeting Joyce for lunch this week and we always bring something for each other... I had a box of Duncan Hines Deluxe Carrot Cake in my pantry so I decided instead of baking it as a cake....I would make it into a sweet bread loaf.... I think I even fooled Betty.... She too...

I need to Begin this Post by Stating that the only people who aren't going to Think we have finally Lost our Minds is John and Ellen Tiene.... Friends and Fellow Blogger from the Great State of Jersey.... You see her John is as Nutty as my John..... Where Car's are concerned that is..... Ellen's John doesn't have a garage....He actually has a Warehouse to "house" his car's.... So with that Said....  Let me start Here.....Last Wednesday.... For those of you who missed the Hormone Drama On Facebook... I had to run up to Walgreen's  to pick up my Prempro which I have taken for Oh....about 12 years....Yes ladies...You can indeed Have Hot Flashes for 12 looooooong years... Pulling into the lot....with the Boss at the wheel I notice and comment on this gorgeous red sports car that I did not recognize... Odd...since we are a family of car enthusiasts and I can usually identify almost anything.... Disregard that you guys can r...

Daughter called a few weekends ago and They were having a Saturday of Making Soup and Baking Bread... Challah bread to be exact and interested in how they were going to make soup and have bread ready all at the same time she told me how easy the bread was to make... I was fascinated that it had an extremely short rise time... For years I shied away from bread baking because I thought it took hours and hours of kneading and rising...and kneading and rising... An all day process..... So I went online and found something called "EASY CHALLAH BREAD" a bit different then daughter's version....I liked the ingredients....and it made just one loaf... with a Total prep time to assemble the dough of about 15 minutes.... And a total rise time of about an hour.... I figured I would give it a try... I had just come off an all day bread baking class at the Viking School and for all the work we did and the time it took I was a bit disappointed how quickly the bread went bust... Th...