Posted in bread, breakfast, favorites, whole grains, yeast bread on Aug 26th, 2010
It’s possible that bagels are my favorite food. Yes, more so than tomato soup, than macaroni and cheese, even more so than chocolate chip cookie dough! And so I eat one almost everyday. It’s basically my lunch break and it’s a happy little time for me with my bagel, my black tea, and my Google [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, fall, fruit, nuts, quick bread, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains on Aug 17th, 2010
I finally admitted defeat this weekend. For the first time this year, I bought bread. I also bought pre-chopped vegetables, hummus, and pre-washed lettuce. Why do I force myself to do all these things from scratch? Preparing my snacks and lunches for the work week has been seriously cutting into my favorite Sunday activity (sitting [...]
Posted in bread, whole grains, yeast bread on Aug 12th, 2010
This is the third or fourth challah recipe I’ve tried and most certainly my favorite. Yes, the whole wheat version is the best challah I’ve made. I’m surprised too. Maybe challah doesn’t seem like something that would adapt well to whole wheat? Whole wheat bread is often denser and drier than refined flour loaves, and [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, quick bread, whole grains on Jul 11th, 2010
Every time I want to make pancakes, I have to look up my pumpkin pancake recipe and mentally subtract out the pumpkin and fall spices. It’s about time I made my basic pancake recipe more accessible. The thing about pancakes is that there are a lot of less-than-perfect recipes. Trust me, I’ve tried a lot [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, chocolate, fruit, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains, yeast bread on Jun 15th, 2010
Dave has recently encountered an enviable problem. After starting to exercise a few months ago for the first time in years, he started losing weight too fast. Losing weight. Too fast. So now we’re trying to come up with ways to get him more healthy calories that don’t create much more work. Hard-boiled eggs, peanut [...]
Posted in cheese, citrus, gluten free, good as leftovers, healthy, vegetables, vegetarian, weeknight meal, whole grains on May 22nd, 2010
I have annoying eating habits at work. Carrots – crunchy. Bananas – smelly. Hard-boiled eggs – crunchy (during the peeling) and smelly. My officemate is very tolerant. And on our first day in the office together, she asked me, “So is that how you stay thin? By eating healthy all the time?” Hmm… Call me [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, french, whole grains, yeast bread on Mar 25th, 2010
This recipe cracks me up. Each little brioche roll has 1¼ tablespoons of butter in it, so it doesn’t matter how much whole grain you use – these are not good for you. They are, however, good. Of course they don’t have much in common with their white flour cousins, which, if we were talking [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, healthy, quick bread, whole grains on Mar 21st, 2010
Epicurious reviewers get a lot of flack for their “I made 8 million changes to the recipe and hated it” habit, but in general, I find them completely awesome. Without their unequivocal positive reviews, I wouldn’t have chosen this recipe at all, or I at least would have modified it. I started to have doubts [...]
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 recipe with [...]
Posted in citrus, cookies, dessert, tuesdays with dorie, whole grains on Feb 23rd, 2010
The problem with wheat germ cookies is that my mind focuses on the wheat germ part instead of the cookie part. So then these are healthy and therefore perfectly acceptable to eat with my tea – before breakfast. Wheat germ, people! Whole grains! Cookie schmookie. Plus – they’re so good! No joke. I had my [...]
