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, 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, 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 bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, french, recipe comparisons, yeast bread on Jun 13th, 2010
I worked in a lab for years, but I never absolutely loved it. You’d think I would have, considering that I basically mixed up ingredients and baked them, but I guess without that crucial eating-the-batter – sorry, of course I mean that eating-the-result step, it just wasn’t as fun. Plus I could never get the [...]
Posted in bread, cheese, fruit, italian, pizza, pork, vegetables, yeast bread on Apr 18th, 2010
I went to dinner at a fancy pizza place with my parents and Dave a few months ago, and my dad ordered a pizza that seemed appropriate for him – cheeseburger. Because the more meat, the better! Hold the vegetables please, is generally his motto. Oh, I laughed and laughed when his pizza arrived covered [...]
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 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 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 a [...]
Posted in alcohol, 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 that, so [...]
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 immediately [...]
