I love this picture. It may look crazy to some of you without dogs, but Loki was actually very good with puppies. Taken last year. I have some recipes to share–and I even have pictures, but we finally replaced my computer (I now have a Mini Mac–YAYAYAY!!!), but I don’t have the software installed yet…
Tapatio Cheddar Bread
Bread Baking Day I have missed you! The theme this month is cheese and bread–and strangely enough I have had a devil of a time with it. My first effort was terrible–so terrible I actually threw it away. Maybe it was just me, I don’t know. Maybe I am not meant to appreciate Parmesan in…
How To Delay Your Bread Once You’ve Started: Maple Oatmeal Sandwich Bread
This bread is just amazing. I want to be clear about that. The mapliest maple bread you have ever tried. But first I want to address a misconception a lot of people have about making bread–that bread baking will not fit into their schedule. This does not have to be true. With a user-friendly…
AAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH! (Taste & Create)
OK so first let me apologize for disappearing for a week. My computer is still MIA (and so far nothing can be found wrong with it, which is so NOT reassuring) and we were out of town for 4 days. I went to the Ohio State/Michigan football game. Bring on basketball season! ‘Nuff said. 🙁…
100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread
How many of you are staring at that title, remembering that just 1 month ago I balked at the Bread Baking Day theme of 100% whole grain? What’s changed, you ask? I got Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads for my birthday. It has been on my wish list since before its release date. I am…
My Favorite White Bread & Lessons My Mother Taught Me
When I was in college, my friends spoke very disparagingly of white bread. They referred to it as gummy and flavorless. They only bought whole grain breads. Now that I am an adult, when buying bread, I pretty much only buy whole grain bread as well. But there is a reason white bread was once…
Buttermilk Cheddar Bread
I was going to title this post “Fool Proof Yeast Bread” in an effort to encourage some of you yeast phobes to try a yeast bread. And then, haha, I did not account for how freakin’ hot this “new” oven is, and my bread came out rather, well, dark. Making it look not very fool…
Portuguese Sweet Bread
When we woke up Monday morning it was brisk in our house. This is not that unusual—we have had a few nights in the 50’s where we turned off the A.C. and opened the windows, leading to early morning chilliness in the house. The difference Monday was that it stayed cool. Really cool—maybe low 70’s…
Eating Crow, er I mean Sprouted Quinoa & Honey Bread
We are coming up on a crazy month. The temporary holdover home we will be moving into should be ready for us in 2 weeks, so we will be moving then. Goodbye terrible oven! Goodbye hideous counters with no space for rolling out dough! We signed the contract to build our house so that is…