Our passion is great bread!
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the eighth annual Asheville Bread Festival. Asheville is a neat place nestled in the mountains of North Carolina. I love Asheville and when you add bread to the mix, it just doesn’t get much better than that. Even though Asheville has a small population, they have more artisan bakeries than most states. For bread enthusiasts, the place and
I’ve got bagels on my mind. Sourdough Bagels, that is. I’ve been reading about the history of bagels and different techniques for making them, and I was getting really hungry for one. I did what any reasonable bread baker would do… I made some. These sourdough bagels are made with very simple ingredients: sourdough starter, bread flour, salt, water, yeast and malt. Did you
Today is National Waffle Day! It’s also National Flour Month so I decided to celebrate both events by making gluten-free waffles with different types of flour. Flax-Coconut Pancakes are featured on the cover of the March Issue of Food and Wine. I thought they looked divine so I used the same ingredients for the batter, but added a good bit more milk to make these
The Bread Baking Babes and Friends have been making Swedish Rye Bread this month. Astrid chose this bread and I really like the flavors: honey, grated orange peel, anise seeds, and caraway seeds. It also includes some white bread flour, rye flour and whole wheat flour. The Swedish Rye (Limpa) we made in the BBA Challenge was flavored with molasses, citrus peel, anise seeds, fennel
I enjoyed two of my favorite things this weekend: bread and the mountains. I went to a cabin in the mountains with some of my hiking buddies. These ladies know I’m a bread baking fanatic so they asked me if I would bring some homemade bread and jam to sample. I’m sure you know they didn’t have to ask me twice. When I found out
