Sometimes something comes into your mind and just takes over it. In these moments you know that fighting is useless, that you are had. That thought owns you. This is what happened one day when I was innocently perusing instagram. I saw a picture of something described as something like peanut butter bacon challah. This time,… Continue reading Peanut Butter Bacon Challah |with recipe|
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Raspberries, Chocolate, and One of My Favorite People
Last week was the kind of week that makes it difficult to maintain an otherwise sunny disposition. There were other factors involved, but the main one involves my car. My poor car; she’s been through so much. On Monday, I started her up and got ready to go through the morning routine. I pulled onto… Continue reading Raspberries, Chocolate, and One of My Favorite People
Garlic, Tomato, Olive and Basil Bread
I suppose that I could have named this post “Even More Bread.” Anyway, last week I came across the recipe for Spicy Garlic Bread. I knew that I would make it. See, I like to make bread, and now that I make it regularly, I dislike buying it. I also have a great guy in… Continue reading Garlic, Tomato, Olive and Basil Bread
Cornbread
Again, this is a part of the BBA challenge. I have to admit that I did not follow this recipe exactly as written. It was another one of those projectes started too late in the evening. So, the cornmeal soaker soaked a lot longer than required. Also, I reduced the bacon. The recipe called for… Continue reading Cornbread
Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread
The BBA Challenge is back with the Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread. Can I just say that I didn’t think that I would be able to coerce 1.5 cups of raisins into this bread. But, I have had a pretty good success rate with Reinhart’s breads (well, with the exception of the ciabatta), so I just… Continue reading Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread
Plum cake
As soon as a happened upon this cake, (thank you Bloglines for delivering the blogs I like to read in such an easy way), I knew that I wanted to make it. I actually thought of the cake every day until this morning when I finally made it. Wait, let me correct that. Until this… Continue reading Plum cake
Ciabatta=fail, Cinnamon rolls=pass
I don’t know what happened with my ciabatta, but something just wasn’t right. It looked promising, but like a marriage ending in divorce, something went wrong. I don’t know what, but something was wrong, very wrong. This made the matter of cinnamon rolls that much more important. I find baking more challenging in the warm… Continue reading Ciabatta=fail, Cinnamon rolls=pass
Challah
I don’t think I’d ever eaten challah before, but I made it! This turned out to be a beautiful loaf of bread that left the nighttime kitchen fragrant and made me want to sit in front of the oven with my black notebook and write some poems about it. But I didn’t. By the time… Continue reading Challah
Brioche
BBA Challenge strikes again. This time, the bread is brioche. This sounds incredibly dense, but it didn’t occur to me until I came across the blog French Laundry at Home that what I am doing is cooking, or in this case baking, my way from beginning to end of a cookbook. I am glad that… Continue reading Brioche
Banana bread
I was sitting at the kitchen counter recently when I noticed in my peripheral vision a few freckled bananas. Almost instaneously, I thought of a recipe that I saw not too long ago over at Sassy Radish. I knew that I had to make banana bread. Last time I saw rapidly-darkening bananas, I made banana… Continue reading Banana bread