To the_haunt. You share a birthday with some very interesting people (William Shatner, Karl Malden and Elvis Stojko, to name but a few!), which is only appropriate since you yourself are a very interesting person!
theamusedone was asking for bread recipes with which to test drive his new KitchenAid mixer, so I'm putting 3 of them behind the cut below. If you have one you'd like to share, feel free to put it in the comments.