Our passion is great bread!
One of the breads randomly chosen for the Mellow Bakers group this month is French Bread. This particular French Bread is made using the straight dough method, meaning it doesn’t utilize a preferment. I happen to prefer poolish baguettes so I almost didn’t make this one. However, some of the other bakers seemed to have good results with this bread so I thought I should
What do you do when life gives you cucumbers? You make pickles, that’s what you do! I have a bunch (I mean a bunch) of cucumbers growing in my straw bale garden so I was so glad that Gloria at Laundry Etc chose Curcubits for this month’s tigress can jam theme. The cucumbers have taken over my garden. They started choking out the peppers. They
Our selection for the July15th HBinFive Bread Braid, is Gluten-Free Cheddar and Sesame Bread. Using this dough, I made the Gluten-Free Parmesan Bread Sticks and a loaf of Gluten-Free Cheddar and Sesame Bread. You can find the recipe for these gluten-free bread sticks on page 247 of the Healthy Bread in Five Minutes book. This particular gluten-free dough utilizes a mixture of sorghum flour,
Beer Bread with Roasted Barley is one of the breads the Mellow Bakers made in June. I’ve been really mellow about baking bread recently because it’s so hot. I didn’t get around to this one in June so I added it to my list for July. I made this beer bread with IPA beer my boyfriend made a few weeks ago. That was another reason
Last month for the tigress can jam we made jams and jellies and other canned goodies with berries. I got some great ideas from the other can jammers so I’m continuing the berry theme this month. Just for fun, I’m having my own Jam Fest. To begin the fun, I made Blackberry Jam with some of the blackberries I got from one of my favorite
