Category: Breads

  • Pumpkin Muffins from a Homegrown Pumpkin

    Pumpkin Muffins from a Homegrown Pumpkin

    I cooked one of my homegrown pumpkins to make a pumpkin pie this year.  I still have 5 more to cook!  The pie was fantastic!  Everyone that tasted it commented on how good it was.  Shall we just say that real cream and fresh pumpkin tastes way better than canned milk and canned pumpkin?  I…

  • Olive Loaf with No Knead Bread

    Olive Loaf with No Knead Bread

    Using the no-knead bread recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking I made an olive loaf for dinner last night. I had an opened jar of kalamata olives in the fridge and used about 1/4 cup of them to make this bread. It went great with the…

  • Jamie Oliver’s Pizza Dough (4 pizzas)

    Jamie Oliver’s Pizza Dough (4 pizzas)

    I picked up Jamie Oliver’s older book, The Naked Chef, and found  a recipe for pizza dough I really like. It makes 4 medium sized pizzas but I’ve been doing as he suggests and prebaking the extras for 5 minutes, then freezing. Makes it very easy to pull out a pizza shell, top it and…

  • Chapati: Indian Bread

    Chapati: Indian Bread

    These are like corn tortillas but made with whole wheat flour. I got the recipe from The Everything Indian Cookbook: 300 Tantalizing Recipes–From Sizzling Tandoori Chicken to Fiery Lamb Vindaloo (Everything: Cooking). I halved the original recipe because I’m only cooking for two (plus lunch leftovers). Save Save

  • Recipe: French Bread the Slow Rise Way

    Recipe: French Bread the Slow Rise Way

    As opposed to my last bread post on no-knead artisan bread, I found myself on a lazy Sunday afternoon wanting to knead bread. Okay, really wanting to eat bread but I hadn’t mixed up another batch of the no-knead stuff and I wanted to compare kneading and rising with no-knead. I pulled out Brother Juniper’s…