This is a lightly sweet member of the focaccia family which is flavored by grapes and anise liqueur. I have made this a couple of times over the years, this time as a way of using up some older grapes on the counter which had shriveled and did not have a good texture to eat Read More …
Biscuit bombs with home-made buttermilk biscuits are quite easy to make as explained in my posting on Biscuit Bombs. They can be made even more easily with large store-bought biscuit dough. Each of the doughs should be flattened out to about a 6 inch circle and then a covered by a layer of shredded cheddar Read More …
Instructions to follow Pain au Chocolat is another way to use the dough for Croissants, and I used half of the dough for this purpose. All that is needed is the dough, some chocolate chips, and a beaten egg for an egg wash. Roll out the croissant dough until a single recipe is a 17 Read More …
Instructions to follow
This bread has quite a complex flavor from the olives, garlic, red pepper, and bit of sugar. This version is an adaptation of a recipe in Bread Illustrated from America’s Test Kitchen. I made this based on weight of flour vs. the volume. The original recipe equated 3 cups of bread flour with 16.5 oz., Read More …
Carol recently bought a pan for baking 6 donuts, so I kept my eyes open for baked donut recipes. I spotted the Easy Baked Donut Cookbook on line at a good price, bought it, and made its coffee cake donuts. I don’t think they looked very donut-like, but they were tasty and cooked quickly. I Read More …
It is an example of how international and multidirectional food influences are that a Japanese variant of a quintessential western dish (i.e. bread) is now popular in the west. This is one of the many examples of yoshoku (Japanese-style Western food) on my blog. For Americans, the new feature of this bread is that it Read More …
The staff of Food52.com raved about a monkey bread recipe in the cookbook Hot Bread Kitchen. That was the starting point for this dish. Instead of basing it on their challah dough recipe, I based it on Pain Brioche Commune because it was a recipe that I could start on Saturday afternoon, have rest overnight Read More …
A recent article in Food52.com about the best bread books had very favorable comments about this bread, which appears in Ken Forkish’s recent book, Flour Water Salt Yeast. I liked the idea of a bread with a mixture of whole wheat and white flour, so I made it, and it turned out very well. We Read More …
Biscuit bombs are North Carolina’s answer to the Texan sausage and cheese kolache ( Kolaches ). I heard about them when Nick and Anna got a kit to make them from “Farmer and the Dail”, a restaurant in Snow Hill, NC (an unlikely name for a town in eastern NC where it very seldom snows!) Read More …