Heartwarming traditions~ Bread

Every year I play with the idea of making Panettone for Christmas and every year slips by with a broken promise to myself.  If you are like me there’s one recipe, just one, that sits on the “gotta make” list, right at the top but never seems to make the move to “been there done [...]

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No-Knead Dutch Oven Bread

Here in Southern California, after temperatures in excess of 105℉, things are beginning to cool off as Fall is right around the corner. That means it’s almost time to fire up that oven, roll up my sleeves and get to work on a no-knead bread recipe I had tried a few months ago. If you [...]

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Parmesan Bread Puffs

  Years ago there was a pizza restaurant in our home town.  Their pizza was deep-dish and fabulous, and the menu had a great variety of items which included Romano Bread Puffs.   I often reminisce of those bread puffs and today I had an epiphany… why not try to reproduce them at home?  So here’s some [...]

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Homemade stills and the wild wild west…..

There’s a part of me that genuinely believes I was born in the wrong century.  When I was a child I loved to imagine myself in the old west something like Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family.  Living off the land and preparing all sorts of wonderful and useful home made concoctions.  Sounds so glamours but not [...]

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Back and blogging about bread

This is my first post in a long time… I’m still watching my carbs but I’ve lightened up a bit and have enjoyed baking bread again.  What a wonderful food bread is!!!  It comes in so many different styles and flavors you never run out of trying something new. This week I’m going to try to bake [...]

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Never Too Many Cookbooks…

Here’s a cook book that caught my attention… Why? you may ask.  Lately the no-knead method has become an obsession with me.  I’ve been combing the www for more info and recipes and ran across this book by Nancy Baggett.  The title is catchy and the recipes look awesome.  I am especially interested in the Buttermilk Bread [...]

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About that no-knead pizza dough…..

  I told you I was gonna post the results of the “no-knead pizza dough” recipe and, well, Chef John, you were right!  This was the best pizza dough that ever came out of my oven.  I’m converted forever.  I’m never going back to kneaded dough, never…  If you’re looking for a good pizza dough you [...]

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The 12 Hour Pizza or… Chef John’s No-Knead Pizza Dough

So I get this RSS Feed the other day from one of my favorite food blogs.  Chef John is telling me I can use a no-knead recipe to make pizza dough.  I love no-knead doughs and the thought just kept going round and round in my head, “no-knead pizza dough”…. “no-knead pizza dough”….  over and [...]

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