Bread Posts

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Cheddar Cheese Biscuits

Monday July 20th 2009

When I made these the other night, The Angry Chef told me that, hands down, it’s my best biscuit recipe. “Even better than my buttermilk biscuits?” I asked. “Yep, even better,” he told me. Well then. I blame it on the cheese. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!

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Buttermilk Cornbread

Tuesday April 7th 2009

Sometimes I bake things, then need to immediately give them away so I don’t gobble down the whole pan. You know how that goes? This cornbread is like that. It’s sweet, light, and soft—with just the right amount of bite from stone-ground cornmeal. And since it’s made with low-fat buttermilk and olive oil (instead of [...]

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Soft and Chewy Rye Bread

Thursday March 19th 2009

‘Tis the season for leftover corned beef. One of my favorite ways to enjoy it is a nice, fat corned beef on rye, spread thickly with mustard. This rye bread is easy and oh-so-tasty to whip up at home. There are a zillion recipes for homemade rye bread. This is how I make mine. It’s [...]

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Nice & Easy Pizza Dough (Plus Simple Red & White Pizzas)

Tuesday January 6th 2009

I have a few different pizza recipes. This is my old standby, whip-it-together-then-forget-about-it pizza dough. It produces a versatile, bread-y crust that can hold an almost-heroic amount of toppings. The crust is pre-baked, then topped and blasted quickly in a hot oven, so it won’t get soggy. The crust itself has a relatively mild flavor, [...]

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How to Make Buttermilk Biscuits

Sunday December 21st 2008

These are super easy to make. If you have a food processor or mixer, you can throw them together in less than 10 minutes. If you don’t, it will take just a wee bit longer to cut the butter and flour together with a pastry cutter or a couple of forks. I made these this [...]

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How to Make Buttermilk Pancakes

Sunday November 23rd 2008

I’ve had a surprising number of people tell me they have a really hard time making pancakes at home. Here’s how I make my buttermilk pancakes, which I whipped up for The Angry Chef just the other day. How to Make Buttermilk Pancakes: Wait, pancakes made with…olive oil? Yep, yep. My original recipe calls for [...]

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How to Make Sourdough Bread, Part 3: Grilled Cheese with Prosciutto

Sunday November 16th 2008

This article concludes my series on how to make homemade sourdough bread. In Part 1, we looked at what sourdough starter is and how you can use it to make a sponge. Part 2 discussed how to bake that sponge into fantastically chewy, dense loaves of bread. Welcome to Part 3, which I think is [...]

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How to Make Sourdough Bread, Part 2: The Dough

Saturday November 15th 2008

Welcome to the second part of my sourdough baking series. This is the part where you make and bake amazing, nibble-worthy loaves of bread. Yesterday, I made the sponge for my bread using my sourdough starter. I let it sit overnight, covered, to develop flavor. Today, I used that sponge to bake dense and chewy [...]

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How to Make Sourdough Bread, Part 1: The Starter

Friday November 14th 2008

There’s nothing like the smell of fresh baking bread. Make that bread sourdough, and I’m in heaven. The sourdough recipe that I start below produces a moist, flavorful, and chewy bread that can stand toe-to-toe with some of the best loaves out there. Tonight, I’ll talk a little bit about sourdough starter and how to [...]

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Mid-Autumn Meat Feast at The House of the Hungry Mouse

Saturday November 1st 2008

The other night, The Angry Chef and I had a good old friend over for dinner. We hadn’t seen him in quite a while, and it was so lovely to catch up. He brought a great bottle of sweet white wine and some fantastic port. We made dinner, which I’m realizing now turned into a [...]

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