Baking your own bread is very therapeutic, tastes wonderful right out of the oven with butter and honey and makes the house small great. Even given all those benefits, I stick to just biscuits and muffins out of the oven because I’m too lazy to make bread anymore and because Kroger now has a large loaf of wheat, 3% fiber, at $1.00 a loaf.
Simple food has always been and will always be better, IMO. Macaroni and cheese, big pot of chicken and noodles, meat loaf and mashed potatoes. All good stuff.
Yeah, I've really gotten into it... My only complaint is that baking heats my house up too much in the summer. So I am building an outside wood-fired kitchen for that purpose (among many others, to include canning time). It will have a grill, a pizza-style oven, and a hot/cold smoker... I literally can't wait.
Even given all those benefits, I stick to just biscuits and muffins out of the oven because I’m too lazy to make bread anymore and because Kroger now has a large loaf of wheat, 3% fiber, at $1.00 a loaf.
I can get 1.00/loaf bread here, but it's more air than bread... If I buy bread it is usually Franz brand's oat/nut bread or hazelnut... and I have a preference for light rye, now and then... Not heavy loaves by any means, but structural enough that it can take being spread by real butter :) ... Butter gets cold here in MT...
Simple food has always been and will always be better, IMO. Macaroni and cheese, big pot of chicken and noodles, meat loaf and mashed potatoes. All good stuff.
I have only recently begun cooking (pretty much since my divorce 4 years ago), But I definitely prefer exactly what you are getting at... even to the point of putting in a garden to get better produce too - I grew up with all that, and the surprising thing is how much of it just came flooding back to me from my mother's kitchen when I was a lad. That woman taught me more than I'll ever know... I never cooked a thing, but I watched her do it for decades, and knew most of her main recipes by heart. Most of my cooking comes directly from her.