Learn how to make a simple sourdough starter. What will set this article from the rest is the fact I'll share with you some of the mishaps that can happen along the way. It's not always a nice pleasant smell in the beginning, folks. Sometimes it's downright vile. If you have been following along,...
This is how to make Cranberry Banana Nut Bread and a little background if you are interested. If not, feel free to skip ahead to the recipe or photos. My mom comes over and asks for a recipe to make for her church group, but forgets that I am without an oven. She mentions banana bread and I say I...
Buttermilk Honey Wheat Bread is yet another recipe from the game "what's left in the pantry?" However it was created, it is this soft, tender crumb with a lovely flavor of honey and wholesomeness of wheat flour. In a word, it's delicious. How the recipe came about is the fact I had buttermilk...
Who's ready for a simple no knead bread recipe? You can easily make artisan white bread with a little time and very little effort. It is delicious and has a nice pleasant taste thanks to the long fermentation process. Let's get started right away! I'm trying to make sourdough and it isn't going...
If you want to learn how to make pizza dough by hand without the need of a stand mixer, you are in luck. A relatively quick and easy pizza dough is something we love to make regularly. It's a close tie between this and pasta bakes. If you are looking for pizza fixed faster than many delivery...
I have had bad tasting soda or quick breads. Too much baking soda, cheap wheat flour and a heavy hand at mixing. It's lead to bitter, metallic, dense and claggy loaves of blobs. I'm not sure why there are so many bad recipes out there for what is basically a giant biscuit. After all, learning how...
Fluffy whole wheat dinner rolls are my favorite bread, currently. They are just as delicious as the farmhouse dinner rolls I've made for years. However, I've started using whole wheat flour more in my diet for the added benefits of whole grains. Within months, my health drastically improved for...
Let's make some spiced pumpkin bread this afternoon, shall we? It was in February that I had an idea. I had just finished making banana bread and it occurred to me: What if I just simply replace the bananas with pumpkin? Let me tell you, this was ingenious. I have since found you can take this...
Using brown sugar and honey with wheat flour is one of my favorite flavor combinations. I decided to modify the traditional soda bread recipe for a quick bread that didn't require buttermilk. The addition of honey and brown sugar to whole grains makes it a great way to introduce picky individuals...
Farmhouse dinner rolls are my favorite bread. In fact, I can easily chow down 1/2 dozen without even blinking an eye. I will pass up the most delicious sweets for one of these soft buttery rolls every time. They are so wonderful that guests now request I make giant batches during the holidays in...
If you want to learn how to make old-fashioned banana bread that is simply scrumptious, you are in luck. This is an amazing recipe that I have had for decades. It is well loved and requested frequently. I love to make batches of it and freeze it for future use. That is if the bread even makes it...
Honey, brown sugar and wheat makes a bread that is hearty, delicious and fabulously easy to make. I needed a break from making sweets like macarons. I needed substance. I was going to make wheat bread, something hearty and filling. With 80 grams of fiber between the two loaves, this is definitely...
My great grandma so loved cornbread. She gave me a recipe for corncake or pone bread that you would fry on the stove like pancakes. She always told me how she didn't like crumbly cornbread as you'd get choked on it. And she loved to dip it in a cool tall glass of buttermilk or...
Let's make some fabulously famously fluffy buttermilk biscuits. Try saying that 3 times fast. Or even once slowly. Either way, this is my grandma's recipe and it's the first thing I remember learning how to bake. She would sit me down at the table and I'd have the job of rubbing the butter into...