Don't Ever Let Anyone Tell You You Can't Bake Bread in a Toaster Oven

Because I have just proven them wrong.

By nothing short of a miracle, (and a really incredible combination of gift cards, found money, and a clearance center) we finally got a Kitchen-Aid, and for the last several days I've lived off of the bread and cookies alone that I have made with this machine. I'm not going to lie when I say I stare at it for minutes at a time and marvel at it's precision mixing and kneading. It's hypnotic. The thing's incredible. I have got to be its proudest owner.

Here it is on its trial test run of my staple cake mix cookie recipe. Success!

And here is the top of our fridge on the happiest day I think I've seen since we've lived in this place. I wanted bread and no oven and no mixer just wasn't going to stop me. Gosh darn it, I'll take your lemons and I'll raise you a loaf of bread! So there!

We've definitely got some tweaking to do still, the loaves weren't perfect and that's how I want them, but given the circumstances, we did pretty darn well. And (almost) no one is happier than my well-fed husband whose first response was, "I'm not going anywhere with you baking bread like that." He has not stopped talking about it. Seriously, he keeps asking me when I'm baking the next batch and for how good he is in the kitchen, that is quite the honor. Sorry folks, no modesty here, just one very proud domesticated lady!