Many years ago, maybe 35 at this point, Adrien and I bought a ‘natural’ foods cookbook to accompany our newly-developed interest in eating more non-meat-based meals. The cookbook, probably out of print by now was The Deaf Smith Country Cookbook by Marjorie Winn Ford, Susan Hillyard, and Mary Faulk Koock. The book is in tatters…
Tag: bread baking
22 March 2021: King Arthur Baking’s Favorite Sandwich Bread
I’ve been on the hunt for a less rustic loaf of bread recently and, of course, I’m finding lots of options on King Arthur Baking’s recipe site. This one looks like a winner for sandwich breads and is going into the bread-baking rotation. We rarely have an abundance of milk in our fridge any more;…
02 February 2021-Easiest Loaf of Bread You’ll Ever Bake
According to King Arthur Baking Company, this is the Easiest Loaf of Bread You’ll Ever Bake. I don’t know if every bread baker will agree with that sentiment, but it certainly is not complicated and turns out a delicious pair of loaves that stayed fresh for the couple of days that we consumed it (one…
04 January 2021: Jim Leahy’s No Knead Bread
I’ve been a home bread baker for most of my adult life and, especially now as more home bakers are interested in breads, I’ve been experimenting with different loaves. This one – a No Knead Bread developed by Sullivan Street Bakery‘s Jim Lahey is the bake I return to most frequently. It uses a list…
14 Aug 2020: Homemade Pita Bread
In the process of using up an eggplant from our CSA Share yesterday (Google it – there are a million great sounding recipes for roasted eggplant dips), I discovered we had no actual bread in the house. Wheat thins didn’t seem like the appropriate vehicle for a Middle-eastern Dip, so I began looking at exactly…
30 Dec 2019: Back to Basics: No Knead Bread
I used to bake bread all of the time and, for a while, I was the proud owner of a bread bucket courtesy of my mother-in-law which we used to turn out several loaves of bread at a time. While bread-making doesn’t intimidate me, I fell out of the habit sometime when I went back…
27 May 2018: French Baguettes
I’ve been a baguette fan for a long time, and even though I’ve discovered there are just too many variables/barriers preventing me from baking a truly French baguette, I keep trying. Baking a French traditional baguette is my quixotic challenge in baking. French bread flour is definitely different – it is a harder type of…
Four Nights A Week 