Whole Wheat Bread!!
Jun 13th, 2009 by meena
For our first couple of years here, the only type of bread you could find in the grocery stores and bakeries (Chinese-style bakeries) was white, enriched flour bread. We were whole grain-ers in the states and we really missed the taste and all the health benefits that came with it. I asked a few friends where I could find whole grain bread, but they responded like I was some sort of back-woods country girl. “No one eats that type of bread anymore. Only people who live in the country eat that.” Loving all things new and modern, most city-dwelling Chinese eat white bread, because it’s “new”, relative to grains that are ground by hand. So, though the white bread tasted great, I always felt like I might as well be eating spoonfuls of sugar and white flour. But, slowly, some bakeries and then big grocery stores began carrying whole grain bread. You had to go out of your way to buy it, but you could get it. And, a few weeks ago, I saw it at my neighborhood grocery store, one loaf of whole wheat bread! I quickly snatched it up before anyone else could get their hands on it and thought, before I got my hopes up, that it was probably a fluke. But I went back the next week, and there it was again! Whole wheat bread, people! This back-woods country girl and her arteries are thankful.
Whole wheat bread, people!!
Yes, I know. It doesn’t take much to please us.
We saw Star Trek at the theater last weekend. It was great! Gotta love that J.J. Abrams. It was all new to the Chinese audience we were watching it with. They, sadly(?), don’t have the 40 years of Star Trek TV history that the US has. The first time they used the transporter, one audience member, in a very confused tone of voice, asked, “What is he doing??” The best part was when Spock pulled out his Vulcan hand gesture and said “live long and prosper” and everyone in the audience all tried doing it themselves.
Live long and prosper.
That’s so funny about the Spock hand gesture — even my 6yo knows how to do that! It’s amazing how many things are SO different on the other side of the world… like the whole grain bread. Haven’t they heard that “green” and healthy is the new white bread? LOL! Love reading your blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAY for whole wheat bread! It’s the little things in life that can be quite ‘big’ at times! ;o) So excited for y’all.
Also, too funny about the movie. I bet people watching in those settings is half the fun.
Does this mean you don’t have whole wheat flour also? If you do, let me know, because I’ve got a kick-butt whole wheat bread recipe that is super easy. You don’t even have to knead it.
Then again… Now that you have it in stores, you might not want to even mess with this.
Ha, I live in a totally white flour/sugar household. Aneil says he loved my last batch of spaghetti, and I’m pretty sure it’s because I got the regular pasta rather than the usual whole wheat, and I got the fattier meat rather than the usual extra lean (the unhealthy stuff was on sale at HEB!). That being said, nothing tops whole wheat toast.