Our passion is great bread!
Today is World Bread Day. The day for bread bakers around the world to showcase their breads and celebrate the staff of life. Zorra of kochtopf started the event for bloggers in 2006 and each year, hundreds of bloggers from all around the world bake bread for this special day. This year, Zorra has a special wish to see a huge basket filled with at
The challenge for the #TwelveLoaves Baking Group this month is to make breads with root vegetables. I had picked up some lovely purple potatoes from the local farmer’s market so now all I had to do was figure out what kind of bread to make. As luck would have it, David, aka the Rye King, of the Artisan Bread Bakers FB Group, enticed us to
The Bread of the Month (BOM) for the Artisan Bread Bakers is Sourdough Rye with Raisins and Cranberries. David, the host for the Artisan Bread Bakers for September, described the bread as, “… a wonderful bread for this time of year, delightful on its own, with a pleasant chew, a tender crumb and a nice crust! You will find it rather joyful!” Unfortunately, the
The Bread Baking Babes decided to make crackers this month. It seems that everyone is catching the cracker bug. This was fine by me. I’m always up to trying different types of crackers. These crackers are called Crunchy Crackers and boy are they ever crunchy! They are filled with seeds on the inside and studded with additional seeds on the outside. This makes for a
The baking mission for Twelve Loaves for September was to bake bread with something sweet or savory from the Farmers Market. My Farmers Market Bread is a sweet and savory, crispy delight. The inspiration for this Rosemary, Fig and Onion Flatbread came across my inbox a few weeks ago and I’ve had it on my list to make ever since. The original version, called
