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 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, 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 [...]
Posted in bread, freezer friendly, recipe comparisons, yeast bread on Nov 12th, 2009
Hey, remember, uh, a long time ago? When I said I was going to do a series on croissants? Whatever happened to that anyway? I certainly didn’t stop making croissants. I just stopped talking about it. I suck!
Part of the problem was that these, the second batch of croissants I [...]
Posted in bread, freezer friendly, sandwiches, whole grains, yeast bread on Nov 1st, 2009
Allright, so. NaBloPoMo. National Blog Posting Month, or in my case, Clean Out the Crazy-Full Pending Folder Month. I remember it being pretty tough last year, and it’s looking like it’s going to be even more challenging this year, because we finally (!!!) got a move date, and it’s the first week [...]
Posted in book review, bread, freezer friendly, healthy, whole grains, yeast bread on Sep 11th, 2009
My guidelines for nutrition can pretty much be summed up by:
Only eat when hungry. But don’t eat too much.
Don’t eat processed crap.
Eat as many fruits and vegetables as you can stand.
Don’t be a baby about whole grains.
I’ve been getting worse and worse about that last one recently. I’ve walked by Reinhart’s book on [...]
Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, bread, cheese, freezer friendly, italian, pork, sandwiches, yeast bread on Jul 17th, 2009
This is the third time I’ve made this bread, and the first two times just didn’t do it for me. It seems like a given, right? Bits of sausage and cheese dispersed in a tender buttery bread? What isn’t to like?
The first time, it was the type of cheese I used that [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, fruit, tuesdays with dorie, yeast bread on Jul 14th, 2009
My opinion of this recipe might be biased based on the morning I was having.
First, it was 4th of July, possibly my favorite holiday and the second day of a three-day weekend. I got up early, after getting plenty of sleep (rare on the weekends; usually I stay up late but can’t get myself [...]
