Ingredients for Bread Making

Series Summary

It’s so important for parents to provide good nutrition for their children, not only because their kids are growing and developing, but also because they are forming lifelong eating habits—like how they make their meal choices or how they view food on the whole. Especially in this day and age, sitting down to a healthy, well-balanced meal can be a challenge. Our lives seem packed to the brim with to-do lists; and with the ubiquitous convenience of fast food, meal time has lost much of its priority on those lists.

Cooking, however, can be very therapeutic and in some cases a workout. In this free cooking video series, learn how to make a compromise between the convenience of a drive thru lifestyle and the nutritional value of a homemade, healthy meal. Our expert chef will give you several quick, easy and recipes for your health. Included are dough kneeding workouts, tips on understanding labels, tips on salad dressings and avocado tips. Then, for a healthy dessert or snack, watch the videos on coffee tips.

Video Transcript

"Stress is not conducive to aging backwards. There is a lot of different ways to relieve stress. You can work out, or take a nap or do deep breathing, meditation. But we are going to knead dough. Yes, I said "knead dough". You can make your own dough, it doesn't even have to be accurate measurements, because you're not really going to cook it and eat it, unless you want to. But if you wanted to make your own dough from scratch, you would just take a packet of yeast and add some warm water to it. You don't want it too hot because it will kill the yeast, and you don't want it too cold because then the yeast won't activate. And then you'll just take a couple cups of flour, it can be bread flour or all purpose flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt and once you cook the yeast by putting the water on it, you can just start adding all those ingredients to it. Mix it up with a wooden spoon, and then you'll just leave it off to the side in sort of a warm area just to rest, because later is when you're going to want to knead it, and that's where the fun starts."