Yeast Breads Posts
How to Make Sourdough Bread, Part 2: The Dough
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 [...]
How to Make Sourdough Bread, Part 1: The Starter
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 [...]
Mid-Autumn Meat Feast at The House of the Hungry Mouse
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 [...]
Daring Bakers’ October Challenge: Thin-Crust Pizza
Last month, I joined the Daring Bakers, an online community of fabulous foodies and cooks who do a baking challenge every month. They provide the recipe, you provide the cooking. Their blogroll includes some of the savviest and intrepid bakers I’ve ever encountered. Definitely check out their amazing—and lengthy—list of food blogs. This month’s theme [...]
Chocolate French Toast
If you find yourself with a stray loaf of chocolate bread in your kitchen, you can get into all sorts of devilishly decadent trouble with it. You could toast it and slather it with loads of creamy peanut butter. You could use it for a sandwich that evokes some of the flavors of a classic [...]
Bitter Triple Chocolate Bread
Warning: This is not an ooey-gooey, sticky-sweet bread. It’s a kind of grown-up yeast bread. It’s rich and dense—and is the sort of thing you can use to make out-of-this-world peanut butter sandwiches or decadent french toast. (I like mine warm with loads of cold butter.) It gets a deep chocolate-y flavor from chocolate chips, [...]
Thick Crust Sausage & Cheese Pizza
This is another incidence of me combining homemade bread with pork products. If it happens again, I might just have a problem. I can admit that. While it’s not necessarily a fast thing to cook (you need a few hours to let your dough rise), this pizza is really easy to make. It feeds a [...]
Crispy Bacon Buns
At the risk of sounding like a big geek, these are buns that would make a Hobbit proud. They’re fragrant with garlic and dotted with crispy chunks of bacon. They’re marvelous slathered with a slab of cold butter, or toasted with thin slices of your favorite cheese. They’re a great companion to a steaming bowl [...]
Bread Braids
Baking bread is one of my favorite things to do. There’s something really satisfying about the process—the kneading, the waiting, the watching, the cozy smell in the house when it finally goes into the oven. I made this loaf for a New Year’s party this year. It’s a pretty basic egg bread, dressed up for [...]
