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Posted in Bread, Weekly bread on Apr 6th, 2009
I have been making bread, almost every week, for about 2 months now and a few things are starting to make sense. I have not been brave enough to attempt artisan bread yet, but hope to soon. I have written about many of our experiments including whole wheat bread, potato bread (still my favorite), cornmeal [...]
Posted in Bread, Grains & legumes on Mar 8th, 2009
We are on a roll with bread - two successes in a row. And this one was by far the easiest. It’s perfect for anyone that wants to make homemade bread, but doesn’t want to wait for it to rise. Irish soda bread is considered a quick bread, which means that it uses baking soda, [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Weekly bread on Mar 7th, 2009
We are back on the bread wagon, at least for this week. I actually made (or tried to make) bread the last couple of weeks, but the results were disastrous in one case and just kind of blah in another. I tried to make English muffin bread and it didn’t rise at all so I [...]
Posted in Bread, Weekly bread on Feb 10th, 2009
This is installment number three of the bread project. Despite being on the couch or in bed most of the day with flu-like symptoms, I managed to bake a couple loaves of cornmeal bread. It turned out a little more dense than I expected, most likely because I didn’t let it rise quite long enough [...]
Posted in Bread, Weekly bread on Feb 2nd, 2009
I can hardly believe that I made this bread with my own hands and my own oven. Perhaps it is the Irish in me that can’t resist anything with potatoes… I am not going to overanalyze - I love this bread.
Looking to expand my bread horizons, I visited my favorite place to buy cookbooks - [...]
Posted in Bread, Weekly bread on Jan 26th, 2009
This is my first attempt at making kneaded bread and the first post of a somewhat regular (weekly-ish) bread baking project I have decided to work on. The project came about when I realized how little I know about grains, despite my passion for locally grown beans and grains. I have made the infamous no-knead [...]
