One of my earliest vivid memories is shopping with my mom at our dinky little mall (now a small strip mall) when I was 4 or 5 years old. I loved going to this mall with her- partly because I learned the art of shopping at an early age (something I’ve already taught to 2-year [...]
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I could write an ode to garlic. But I’m not a very ode-writing kind of girl. So making these delightful knots will have to suffice.
Ingredients:
For the knots:
3 cups bread flour
1/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons instant yeast
1-1/4 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup + 2 tablespoons lukewarm water
For the garlic glaze:
2-4 cloves peeled, garlic
2 tablespoons [...]
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I’ve been looking for a 100% whole grain pizza crust for quite some time. I love, love, LOVE this crust, and I’ve often made it w/ half wheat bread flour & half white, but the 100% wheat version was bleh. When I saw this recipe, I saved it immediately and it did not disappoint.
My only change [...]
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I really enjoy making bread (which you can probably tell, as that seems to dominate my blog most of the time). However, I’ve grown to prefer wheat breads over white breads which usually require a pre-ferment process, thus requiring some advance planning.
A few days ago I was really wanting to make some bread right then [...]
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This bread is one of my favorites for a few reasons. It’s delicious, of course, but also I find that my favorite wheat breads require a soaker or pre-ferment to be made the day prior and I usually don’t think ahead enough to make that! This one fits the bill nicely in that it can [...]
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A few months ago my mom bought me Peter Reinhart’sThe Bread Baker’s Apprentice as a gift. I’d been borrowing it repeatedly from the library (then accidentally on purpose, forgetting to return it on time). Finally, when the library started calling my house to tell me that other people were waiting for this book, I decided [...]
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When I was planning out the menu last weekend for when our friends came for dinner I knew I wanted to make a bread to go with the pasta. I debated between a focaccia and ciabatta bread. After looking through numerous recipes I decided on this one because it was fast. I knew with everything [...]
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I’m a huge bagel fanatic but it never occurred to me to make them myself until I started going through ideas for my 25 in ‘09 list (which, incidentally, I’m still working on and welcome new ideas).
I was so excited for this to be the first thing I cross off my ‘09 list and I’m [...]
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This is quite similar to the Pizza Bite recipe but I think I liked this one a touch more, mostly for the bread. I wasn’t a huge fan of the pizza dough from the Bites recipe but the frozen bread dough was pretty tasty. (Is it wrong for me, the bread baking addict, to admit [...]
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Ingredients:
2 1/3 cups warm water (about 100°)
1 ½ tbsp. instant yeast
¼ cup honey
4 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
2 ½ tsp. salt
¼ cup rye flour
½ cup toasted wheat germ
3 cups whole-wheat flour
2 ¾ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
Directions:
In the bowl of a stand mixer, mix the water, yeast, honey, butter and salt with a rubber spatula. Mix in [...]
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