Southern Sausage Roll
This is half a batch of buttermilk biscuits encasing a browned and split 4 oz. smoked sausage, some grated cheddar, and pickled jalapenos. It was a fairly quick and tasty breakfast
Category: Breads
Buttermilk Biscuits with Mix-ins
I have been thinking about making savory biscuits by mixing meat, cheese, onions, etc. into the biscuit dough. I have noticed that it is much easier to incorporate such ingredients in low gluten biscuit dough than in high gluten bread dough. This version is Buttermilk Biscuits for Two plus 5 oz. of Taylor pork roll, Read More …
Biscuit Bombs with Potato and Cheese Filling
This is a vegetarian version of biscuit bombs, combining Buttermilk Biscuits and Potato and Cheese Filling. ¼ cup of filling per Biscuit Bomb. A full batch of the filling will fill 16 biscuits. I like to add a little SriRacha or other hot sauce to the biscuit bombs.
Schiacciata with Grapes
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 Store-bought biscuit dough
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 …
Pain au Chocolat
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 …
Croissants
Instructions to follow
Spicy Olive Bread
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 …
Baked Coffee Cake Donuts
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 …
Hokkaido Milk Bread
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 …