Category: Breads

  • Soda Bread

    Soda Bread

    I used to make this now and then and somehow got out of the habit. On St. Patrick’s Day I like to honor the small bit of Irish ancestry I have and made this Irish Coddle. I also made some Soda Bread to go with it and my eldest loved the bread. It’s probably a…

  • No Knead Bread from The New York Times

    No Knead Bread from The New York Times

    Last night after dinner I started the New York Times’ famous no knead bread.  I definitely need to add more flour (or maybe cornmeal) to the towel next time because my bread stuck to it when I tried to dump it into the pan. But no matter. It still came out great! And it’s so…

  • Buttermilk Cornbread Recipe with 1:1 Ratio

    Buttermilk Cornbread Recipe with 1:1 Ratio

    A birthday celebration tonight and the dinner request was barbecued ribs.  My favorite way to cook ribs these days is to rub them with some spices and then grill over low indirect heat for several hours.  I always make this supposed Applebee’s-like barbecue sauce recipe. These days I leave out the extra salt and the…

  • Homemade Hamburger Buns with Good Hamburgers

    Homemade Hamburger Buns with Good Hamburgers

    My new bread machine, which I wrote about here, was in use twice today! I made homemade hamburger buns and a plain white loaf of bread.  First, I just needed some regular bread for breakfasts and lunches tomorrow. This was a plain white loaf, with honey as the sweetener. After that was baked (about 3…

  • Making Yogurt, Making Bread: All Lead to Killer French Toast

    Making Yogurt, Making Bread: All Lead to Killer French Toast

    I’ve been making bread and yogurt regularly the past few weeks.  The yogurt gets eaten, fed to chickens as a treat and baked with in my daughter’s favorite bread: yogurt bread.  And the hens have been laying well so… The other morning I decided to make French toast with some of that yogurt bread and…