Now that you've learned how to make a basic sourdough loaf, how about making a sensational sourdough bread for beginners? This is a lean dough and lightly salted. If you like the traditional sourdough flavor, feel free to double that salt as it enhances the sourness. Also, for a lovely rich...
100% Whole Wheat Bread is easy to make without much effort. This is the laziest, most uninvolved bread recipe you'll have the pleasure of making. Once you finish stirring together the ingredients, you don't have much else to do. Most of the time spent is waiting. In addition, when you look at all...
Learning how to make a lean white sandwich bread is essential when it comes to portion control. Since white flour is stripped of a lot of nutrients during the processing, it's not as good for you as whole wheat bread. But there is nothing wrong with eating white bread on occasion. Just be aware...
A great friend once told me "Don't focus on what you can't do, focus on what you can do." I don't like to focus on my disabilities, in fact, I started baking again to push my limitations. Some days are harder than others, some recipes seem impossible at times. And other times, you find a baking...
My friend Nancy just came back from vacation and told me how they were served pumpkin pecan pancakes. She thought it was a strange thing until she ate them. She now loves all things with pecans and pumpkin. While we were talking, one of us (probably her) decided that it could potentially make a...
Now that you have a sourdough starter, let's make some sourdough bread! It's much simpler than you'd ever think and all you need is a couple bowls, a towel and time. No kneading required! We will call this sourdough bread 101. I'm relatively new to it and if you want to learn a lot more about...
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...