Our passion is great bread!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is the day we share gifts from the heart with friends and loved ones around the world. So my dear friends and visitors, this Blood Orange Marmalade is my gift to you. I haven’t made marmalade in a while and I just got a new cooktop so I had to test it out. The cooktop works great and so did
Last month, I went through the process of drying and restarting my apple starter so that I could share some of it with a hiking buddy. You can find the process for drying a sourdough starter here. In this post, I’ll continue the experiment and show you how to activate a dried starter. After drying and restarting my sourdough starter several times, I ended up
These bread bowls, made with Italian Bread dough, are edible and make festive containers for soups, chilis, and stews. A visitor to my site recently asked me if I had any recipes for bread bowls. I realized I had only made them a couple of times. I sent her a recipe for whole wheat bread bowls and told her about the ones Frieda of Frieda
by Yucca (London UK) I had my first go at making home-made Finnish Full Rye Bread and what’s better to use than the original Finnish recipe (found in the Nordic Bakery Cookbook). The recipe is pretty simple and if you follow the steps (and be patient), success is guaranteed! Ingredients: 14 g easy-blend yeast (dry yeast) 900 ml – 1 l lukewarm water 800 g
A friend of mine sent me the recipe for this 5-Alarm Chili last week. I love chili; however, I’m a bit of a wimp when it comes to spicy chili so I toned down the heat a bit. My version would probably be considered 3.5-Alarm Chili, but who’s counting, right? It’s hearty and has a wonderful flavor with just the right amount of heat, for
