I was really excited when I saw the theme for this month’s Bread Baking Day, hosted by Baking A Sweet Life (update: as of February 2015, this site does not seem to exist anymore). I love breakfast breads, especially the sweet ones. However, as some of you may have noticed from my slacking on the Daring…
Laura’s Not 7 Grain Multi Grain Honey Bread
The women in my family do not believe in following recipes. Some of us, like my mom, are rather belligerent about it. 🙂 Others, like my sister, are just disdainful toward recipes. I used to be this way as well—and still am when cooking—but for the most part I have become a believer in pretty…
Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Cinnamon Raisin Loaf
One of the things I have liked best about taking my cooking online, so to speak (the Cooking Light Bulletin Board, this blog, reading other blogs, participating in the various events like Bread Baking Day and the Daring Bakers) is that I have really started stretching myself as a baker. Now I realize that for…
BBD #9: Oats: Maple Oatmeal Sandwich Bread
I love Bread Baking Day. It is my favorite of the monthly food blogger events, since I love bread and am always up for experimenting with it. However, I can tell that Bread Baking Day is going to be a tad more difficult for me as the days grow warmer, especially while I am stuck…
BBD #08: Babka for Dad
Whew! Sorry to have gone so long between posts. We have been out of town—and we are about to go out of town again, so I apologize in advance if my posts are a little far and few between. Things will calm down after next weekend. The really frustrating thing is I have at least…
Daring Bakers Challenge: Julia Child’s French Bread
Isn’t this always how it goes? You work and work and work on something, doing everything right, only to commit some stupid (mostly) cosmetic error at the end, causing the whole thing to look awful. C’est la vie. But it tasted fabulous and more important it tasted right, so I can’t be too upset. Besides…
The Taste of Home: Butternut Squash Soup & Homemade Bread
Nothing quite tastes like home to me as much as homemade bread and soup. When I was young and I was sick, Mom always hauled out the Beef and Vegetable Soup—either she got it from the freezer or she made it fresh—and made homemade bread. To this day I desperately crave broth in particular…