Last week, I used buttermilk in a casserole, but then had a significant amount leftover. What do you do with almost an entire quart of buttermilk? I started by trolling the Internet for a few ideas and found this bread recipe on Butter with a Side of Bread. The breads I bake tend toward whole…
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03 Sep 2021: Deaf Smith Peasant Bread
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…
15 June 2021: Tassajara Bread
When we were a young family, my mother-in-law gifted me with an galvanized hand-crank bread bucket. She had one that she used each week to turn out loaves of bread and, once I became more interested in bread-baking, she found one and gifted it to me. Back in those days (the late 1970s, early 1980s),…
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…
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…
01 August 2020: One-Bowl Vegan Zucchini Bread
Because we’ve received a really (really, really) large amount of zucchini, I’ve developed a new appreciation for gardeners and the creative recipes so many people share to help use up zucchini crops. We’ve had some delicious muffins (thanks Joanne Chang-Meyers) and today, we baked this delicious and moist Vegan Zucchini Bread recipe from the website…
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 