Breads & Muffins
Crazy Day Cornmeal Muffins, Cranberries Optional
You can’t tell it from the muffins, but insanity prevails in our household. It happens every year. Daughter #3 has six concerts over the next two weeks (with associated extra rehearsals), plus regular lessons and a full honors schedule at school. #2 is doing two sports, ballet and four AP courses, which means two practices … Continue reading
Light and Healthy, White Wheat Slider Rolls
Phewww! Our “desperately busy” week is almost over! Did I learn any lessons? Just one. After watching my ham & cheese sliders disappear like water, I need a recipe for slider rolls. I surfed the web and came up with a great looking recipe from Eggs on Sunday (which the blogger got from the book … Continue reading
Irish Brown Soda Bread
I first tasted Irish Soda bread when I was 18. After years of spending vacations at the family cabin, my father opened up the checkbook and took the whole family abroad. We collected notable family stories and even brought back a recipe or two. Among the beautiful hills of Killarney, Mrs O’Malley, our B&B hostess, … Continue reading
A New Favorite Muffin: Apple Pie Streusel
I want to be in Yummy Chunklet’s carpool. Author of one of my favorite blogs, she recently featured an “Apple Pie Muffin” that she had been “seeing around”. Since I am flush with apples (after buying a giant box of seconds which I cored, sliced and froze for baking), these were a muffin I had … Continue reading
Fall Means Quick Cranberry Bread
Everyone has a favorite old recipe or two they haven’t made in years. It’s always fun when something causes you to pull them out again. Today my incentive was provided by Louise of Months of Edible Celebrations who decided to throw a cookbook party! Since October is National Cranberry Month, that would be my starting … Continue reading
Betty Crocker Revisited: Healthier Blueberry Muffins (and Tips)
My mother was an old-fashioned cook. She carried around a Betty Crocker cookbook, full of every kind of recipe from muffins to meatloaf. I couldn’t have been happier when, out of her three kids, I scored that prize. Unfortunately, the old style cooking doesn’t always fit the nutrition conscious lifestyle that we try to practice … Continue reading
Shhh… Homemade Pita Bread is a Snap!
It started with cucumbers. Yes… really… pita cravings can start that way. You see, I am not a cucumber lover. But I am mad about falafel, served in pita bread, with cucumber yogurt sauce. And those CSA cucumbers must be eaten. The first time I looked for pita bread in my local health food store … Continue reading
Hello Sourdough: Goodbye Pizza Stone
Last week I made an initial foray into sourdough baking that resulted in a slightly bland, but well-risen loaf of chewy, sour bread. With a couple of new ideas, I was excited to try a second round. My starter was now lively and fragrant and I was feeling proud. Ready with fresh ideas, I made up … Continue reading
Adventures in Sourdough: The Bread Recipe
Continued from Adventures in Sourdough (Part I). Having successfully produced a sourdough starter that smelled good and seemed to meet minimum bubbling requirements, I was now ready to try my hand at bread. This would require finding a recipe with modest ingredient requirements since, under no circumstances, did I want to make a special trip … Continue reading
Adventures in Sourdough (Part I)
I have been a baker for years. Growing up in the granola-filled 60’s & 70’s, I amassed a decade of bread memories before I learned to drive. First there was pumpernickel, the dense dark bread of my Danish heritage, layered with Tilsit cheese or smeared with Castello. In high school there were trips to my … Continue reading
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