I went to make a salad to go with the Stromboli I made for dinner the other night and decided to make a Caesar salad since I had a head of Romaine lettuce that needed using. I started to grab some croutons from the freezer and then remembered the solitary “everything” bagel I had. I…
Breads
Bread is expensive! So making bread is a great way to save money. There are two basic kinds of breads: yeast breads and quick breads.
Yeast Breads
Yeast breads scare some people but don't let them scare you. Typically, you will mix together the dry ingredients, including the yeast, then add the wet ingredients. Yeast and cold don't get along so you want your liquids to be lukewarm. You may or may not knead the bread before setting it somewhere warm to rise. If it's a cold day, turn your oven on low for 1 minute, then turn it off and let the bread rise in oven that's now slightly warm.
Quick Breads
Quick breads use baking soda and/or baking powder to accomplish the rise. They don't need to be kneaded and they are ready to pop in the oven as soon as you mix up the ingredients.
Easy Dinner Rolls Recipe
Yesterday afternoon I got a hankering for dinner rolls, fresh, warm yeasty rolls. I wanted an easy dinner rolls recipe so I looked through The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook and found a recipe for Virginia Light Rolls, which I first made back in 2012 and have made multiple times since then. I’m usually making them…
Yogurt Bread in a Bread Maker
This yogurt bread is my daughter’s favorite bread currently. I make a smaller (1 1/2 pound loaf) so that it stays fresh. This recipe is straight out of The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker’s 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine, which I bought based on Amazon reviews and…
Easy Cornbread Recipe
We all love cornbread here. You can vary the flour/cornmeal ratio a bit depending on how heavy you want it. I use buttermilk, yogurt or plain milk, depending on what I have around. Have Leftover Cornbread? When my eldest was a child, she would happily break up chunks of leftover cornbread into a bowl, cover…
Cream Scones with Sweetened Dried Cranberries
When my girls were young, some other neighborhood moms and I would walk downtown really early on Saturday mornings to a certain coffee shop that had the best scones. My favorites were the cranberry ones. I’ve tried baking scones multiple times and while they were good, they never had the texture that I liked so…