Our passion is great bread!
For the February 15th HBinFive Bread Braid, we made several breads to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day: Chocolate Espresso Bread, Chocolate Tangerine Bars and Red Beet Buns. I decided to get creative with the Chocolate Espresso Bread and bake it in a flower pot. The result was a dark brown bread that looks like dirt. I’m okay with that! It adds to the effect! The bread
I wanted to make Stollen, the 36th bread in the BBA Challenge, in December since it’s a Holiday bread, but decided not to skip ahead. I’m glad I waited because I got a little bit tired of all of the enriched breads during the Holidays. We’ve been making sourdough breads for the past few weeks in the challenge so this enriched bread is a nice
The next bread in the BBA Challenge is #35 Sunflower Seed Rye. I loved making this bread! The dough is wonderful and so easy to work with and the flavor is extraordinary. I think I found my favorite bread! I could eat this bread and nothing else all day. Really!!! I had been under a lot of stress due to a project at work last
Friday night was pizza night at my house. I had company over for dinner and a movie and decided it would be fun to make homemade pizza. I thought about making Pizza Napoletana from the BBA Challenge, but it tastes best when you let the dough rest in the refrigerator overnight. Another one of my favorites is Brick Oven-Style Pizza made with a poolish and
For some time now, I’ve been looking for a way to use my bread-baking skills to benefit the needy. I finally found it! I’m baking bread for STIR IT 28 – Atlanta. I’m so excited to be a part of this wonderful effort to benefit the people of Haiti. 100% of monies raised goes directly to Share Our Strength and Yéle Haiti. Participating in virtual
