Here’s more pictures from the meetup! Thank you so much to Monet a Savvy Brown reader and event participant! Enjoy!

Making your own bread saves you money. Plain and simple. It’s also healthier for you. My father-in-law (Papa Brown) doesn’t buy his bread from a grocery store. He either makes rolls himself, or  he buys his bread from the bakery. When I asked him why, he said, “There’s something wrong with bread from the store. It takes too long to go bad.” Papa Brown was referring to the preservatives and icky ingredients that are in most store-bought bread. Including High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, (a.k.a.- “trans-fats”) among other things. For more info on what’s in mass-produced bread, click here.

Basic Bread only needs 6 ingredients:

1. flour
2. milk
3. sugar
4. yeast
5. butter
6. salt

Ever read the ingredients in that 47 grain enriched “healthy” loaf from the store?

This recipe is a House of Brown staple. I love that I can get all of the ingredients from the corner store, and whip the whole thing up in an hour. Very budget friendly!

Chickpea and Sweet Potato Curry*

Ingredients:

Chickpea and Sweet Potato Curry over Red Quinoa

• 2 tbsp olive oil or coconut oil
• 1 small onion chopped
• 4 cloves garlic chopped
• 1 tbsp of fresh ginger chopped
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 1 tsp of chili powder or red pepper flakes
• 1 large or two small sweet potatoes cut into 1/2″ cubes
• 1 can of drained chickpeas (garbanzo beans) or 1.5 cups of dried chickpeas that have soaked overnight