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Quick and Easy Whole Wheat Irish Soda Bread Recipe

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Coffee and whole wheat toast are one of my breakfast mainstays. St. Patrick’s Day is coming up so why not whip up a loaf of Irish Soda Bread one of the greatest gifts this Lazy Budget Chef (who can’t proof bread to save her life) has ever known – the bread machine. As luck would have it I have more whole wheat flour than white and more raisins than normal because I went to a bulk bin without a container and bought more raisin than I thought. No problem. I’ll make a Irish style whole wheat bread featuring those those happy raisins sitting in my kitchen. I am using the bread machine to make and proof the dough for this recipe and baking the bread in the oven because I want the round shape of a traditional Irish style bread. You can bake it that way or you can bake the whole wheat Irish bread from start to finish in a bread machine. It will taste just the same although I personally think baking bread in the bread maker makes it a little more dense than when I bake bread machine do
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You are Wonderful and Have Nothing to Prove, Just Be YOU!

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While you are reading this, I'm at from the biggest women's blogger conference there is - Blogher13 via the magic of working a head of time and prescheduling. Isn't technology wonderful?

Based on how exhausted I've been after past conferences learning everything I can to be a better blogger, networking to bring you new information, and meeting as many of you in real life as I possibly can, my brain is guaranteed to be Silly Putty by the Sunday drove home. The only thing I'll be able to communicate effectively for the next couple of days is, "Fire bad. Tree pretty."


And of course talk and write in nothing but hideously, long run-on sentences.

Anyway.

As much as I love learning new things and meeting new people, for some reason my inner super self conscious to the point of making myself sick third grader surfaces when I go to a blog conference.  I go from being my normal outgoing, confident, and - dare I say fun - self to someone who is afraid of looking like That Girl and thinks all of those rumors about not so nice behavior are about me. Then I meet someone new who might be feeling that way too, we chat, we laugh, and my normal serious blogging mentoring self makes a triumphant return to crush that Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing feeling.


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Because I'm SUCH a serious person!
Me being Community Leaderly at Blissdom12

My friend Steve posted this video from the Geek Girls & The Doubleclicks on Facebook for all his Geek girls friends.  Nothing to Prove spoke to me because I'm sure we all have been discounted by someone who isn't a nice person and can use a little solidarity and pick me up in the THIS IS ME AND I LIKE WHO I AM department!

Or when you need to be reminded just how powerfully awesome you are by just by being yourself when your self conscious elementary school self rears its ugly head at a blogging conference. I saved this song to my phone for an In Case of Emergency Play This Song situation if I need help kicking my temporary inner weirdness to the curb.

I'm embedding the video below just in case you might need it someday too. Or if you just want to look at Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage being awesome. That's OK too.



Enjoy!

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