Posted in book review, bread, favorites, healthy, whole grains, yeast bread on Mar 10th, 2010
As much as I love Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads, I’ve only made a few recipes from the book. Instead, I’ve been busy using his techniques to adapt my old favorite bread recipes to whole wheat versions. While you can, in general, simply substitute up to half of the flour in a bread [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, quick bread, whole grains on Feb 2nd, 2010
Dave gets a man magazine – not one with naked ladies, but one about fashion and supposedly culture and, I don’t know, other manly stuff. I know he’ll insist that I clarify that he doesn’t pay for it. Anyway, the last issue had an article about getting in shape in which the author [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, fruit, quick bread, whole grains on Jan 31st, 2010
I must be growing up. Since when do I like raisins? At least I still think green peppers are blech. If that ever changes, I know I’ll be ready to pick up my cane and trade in my real teeth for the kind you take out at night to clean. Oh, [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, chocolate, fruit, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 25th, 2010
I made these, oh, a year and a half ago. And the file’s just been sitting around waiting for someone to choose them for Tuesdays with Dorie. Actually, it was the first recipe I ever made from Dorie Greenspan that was not specifically for TWD. I had told myself that I would only [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, fall, fruit, healthy, quick bread, whole grains, winter/holidays on Jan 11th, 2010
I don’t know why I feel the need to state this every year, but, again, for the record: I am pro New Year’s Resolution. Yes, we all know that you can resolve to make changes any day of the year. So what? New Year’s Day is the official last day of holiday [...]
Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, bread, breakfast, yeast bread on Dec 12th, 2009
I always struggle with how to describe yeast bread dough precisely enough so that someone can reproduce the results I got. Almost every dough is elastic and smooth after kneading, so that doesn’t really help. Sticky and not-sticky are good, but each describes a wide spectrum.
My first inclination is to compare it to [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, fruit, tuesdays with dorie, yeast bread on Dec 4th, 2009
I’m very comfortable cutting recipes in half. Some people say that they don’t like to deal with the math, but I come from a family of three engineers and a math teacher, so I can handle math. Plus, I’m cooking for just two people now, and I lived alone for six years before [...]
Posted in bread, cheese, favorites, italian, pizza, vegetables on Nov 28th, 2009
When it comes to cooking, I definitely have weaknesses. I’ve never cooked a perfect roast chicken. I can’t cook a steak with any sort of precision in doneness; if it’s somewhere between ‘moo’ and black, I consider it a success. And grilling? I’ve really never done it. Clearly there are [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, fall, yeast bread on Nov 22nd, 2009
Let’s see, so far this year, I’ve made pumpkin pie, muffins, tea cake, oatmeal, pancakes, cheesecake, cupcakes, risotto, soup, ravioli, scones, chili, and biscotti. Wow, when you put it that way, it’s a little embarrassing. Clearly I can’t leave any categories out, and so – pumpkin yeast bread.
Truth be told, my mind jumped [...]
Posted in bread, dessert, mexican, yeast bread on Nov 19th, 2009
Moving to a small remote town in the middle of a desert, there are definitely things I’m going to miss. Other a big grocery store, that is. Sushi restaurants, for one, and long fall and spring seasons, and skylines, and squirrels and deer in my backyard, and, well, green things.
On the other hand, there are [...]
