Our passion is great bread!
Shubbak el-Habayeb, the bread of the month for the Bread Baking Babes, is a delightful and aromatic Iraqi Sweet Bread. Translated, it means The Lover’s Window. The dough is shaped into square buns and scored with vertical cuts that go all the way through the dough. Now whether the cuts stay that way is another matter altogether. Bread has a mind of its own so
This Gluten Free Banana Bread is based on a favorite banana bread recipe, but instead of using wheat flour, it is made with a gluten-free all-purpose flour blend. Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. I received a free box of Butterfly Gluten Free All Purpose Flour Blend to test. I am not a gluten-free baker so when I was contacted about testing the Butterfly products,
Kare Pan or Japanese Curry Buns are round morsels of bread dough stuffed with a curry mixture, rolled in Panko crumbs, and deep-fried to a golden crispness. Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen is the host kitchen for April for the Bread Baking Babes. She chose these buns as the monthly challenge. When she introduced the Babes to this challenge, she shared some interesting facts about
This Sourdough Cottage Cheese Dill Bread with Onions and Spelt is not your average cottage cheese loaf. This one uses sourdough instead of the traditional yeast/baking soda method, includes all-purpose spelt and whole grain spelt, utilizes a cold fermentation in the refrigerator overnight, and can be baked as a hearth loaf or in a loaf pan. This bread is my take on the Cottage Cheese,
For this month’s Food in Jars mastery challenge, we had the choice of making jelly or a shrub. I’ve made jelly before so I decided to try my hand at making a shrub. What is a shrub? That’s a good question and one I had to ask myself. The shrubs I’m familiar with are bushy, have leaves, and grow in my front yard. The only
