Recently I was sitting at my table when The Bread Baker’s Apprentice stared back at me. It wondered why I had turned my back on it after such a promising start. It reminded me of the good times we had shared. The answer was that I am determined to go through this book in order,… Continue reading BBA Challenge: English Muffins
Tag: BBA Challenge
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
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
Bagels
Bagels are the third bread in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge line-up. Unlike the anadama bread and the christopsomos bread, (obviously) this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of or had bagels. Also, it isn’t the first time that I have made bagels. In the past, I have used a bagel recipe that I found… Continue reading Bagels
Anadama bread
Since more than one of my major writing projects have to do with food, I feel less and less guilty that I spend so much time thinking about it. So, when I was looking around at blogs, I came across this BBA Challenge at Pinch My Salt. I knew that wanted to participate. Perhaps this… Continue reading Anadama bread