Our passion is great bread!
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
This Sweet Potato Einkorn Sourdough Stout Bread is moist and flavorful and benefits from a double-ferment as well as a cold retard in the refrigerator overnight. This bread mashup is what happens when you take mashed sweet potatoes, stout, sourdough, a little rye, rolled oats, and einkorn flour, mix, and bake it in a Dutch oven combo baker. It is a slightly different take on
Struan is the monthly bake for the Bread Baking Babes. My version, which I call Rustic Sourdough Cinnamon Raisin Struan, is made with cooked brown rice, coarse cornmeal, rolled oats, oat bran, and a mix of raisins and cranberries. To give it an over-the-top flavor, the dough is rolled out, brushed with melted butter, and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. For the finishing touches, the top
