Today, I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed having artisan bread dough in my fridge.  It was the base of sticky buns for breakfast and pizza for dinner.  Both turned out spectacular and I only spent about 10 minutes prepping each dish.   The day was so busy that I didn’t get any pictures- next [...]

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While on any journey, one looks forward to the destination, and in some cases, many destinations.  As I wrap up this portion of the bread journey – we will arrive at loaves of warm, fresh, bread.  I plan on continuing on the my bread journey and sharing as I go.  HandyMan has requested Pumpernickel [...]

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I think there are as many pieces of bake ware for bread as there are days in the year.  Many specialty breads have specialty baking pans and pans come in a myriad of metal types, stone ware and silicone.  For the purposes of this journey, we’re talking about a basic free-form loaf that is shaped [...]

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Whether you like to dig and mix your bread dough with your hands, feeling the softness as you knead and release some stress, or let your mixer or bread machine do the work, mixing up bread dough requires a bit of TLC, close observation and sometimes a bit of intuition.  Here are a few tips [...]

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Every warm piece of fresh bread to grace the dinner table holds three foundational ingredients: Flour, Water and leavening.  The flour makes up almost 75% of the final loaf of bread.  So let’s look at the flour options and decide what will be best for your bread.
Anatomy of Wheat Flour
While there are many types of [...]

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Often, warm bread often sits along side a favorite meal on the American dinner table.  Sometimes it is the centerpiece of deli sandwich or hearty sidekick to a soup dinner.  A fresh loaf has even been known to be the main course alongside fruit and cheese on a summer evening on our back porch.  There [...]

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I love to make bread.  To take a handful of ingredients, give them a good spa treatment – massage, rest, and sauna – and voila: warm bread.  Over the last ten years I have thoroughly enjoyed the therapy of making bread: pouring my energy into the dough and watching that work come to a rather [...]

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I’m not quite sure how half the week got away from me but I’m not at all surprised.  Going into this week I knew it would be full of fun as my Brother-J and his girlfriend were coming through for a visit from Tuesday to Wednesday and my Brother-In-Law C is coming through to visit [...]

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In the beginning of December, I challenged myself to set a monthly menu and stick to it as a method to keeping the grocery bill under budget.  I’m happy to say that I was able to keep on menu and managed to come in slightly under budget for the month.  Given the extra baking and [...]

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There is nothing like the flavors of fresh sweet corn and in many areas of the country the farmers markets and produce aisles are stocked with the freshest of this year’s sweet corn.  This year I’ve taken to grilling our sweet-corn in the husks.  It’s super easy and there’s no foil and boiling water involved!
First, [...]

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