Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
I make an average of 2 loaves of bread every week. I alternate between making bread using dry yeast and making bread using a rye starter that I store in my fridge. My bread making schedule has been going on for several years now and there is no turning back. Once you’ve tasted homemade bread, […]
Halloween has become a day for kids young and old to indulge in sweets and dress up in strange costumes and be spooky or funny or whatever. The ultra commercialized Halloween of today only represents a small blip in Halloween’s centuries-old history. It precedes the religious holidays of All Saint’s Day and All Soul’s Day. […]
I was looking for a recipe for light rolls to make sandwiches for lunch that would bring a welcome change to the day-in/day-out country-style bread we always have at home. I turned to a recipe for French yeast dough–pâte levèe–that is used to make pissaladière à la Niçoise, which is an onion tart that is commonly […]
I have been baking this bread each week for about two years. It’s a rustic, everyday bread that has a great crust, a great crumb, and a great taste. This is the family’s go-to bread for sandwiches. Notice that the holes in the bread are not too large so we experience little-to-no seepage problems when […]
Several years ago, I made a few attempts at making a sour dough starter. Each attempt failed miserably. Mold would grow on the starter and that was the end of that. After reading several articles on the health benefits of natural yeast and sour dough bread, I grew more determined to master this very basic […]