This summer I saw that there was a baking competition at my local agricultural fair, and decided to enter. Sourdough is really my thing, but unfortunately there was no sourdough category. Only yeast bread! So I thought to myself, what kind of yeast bread inclusions would be the most crowd friendly. Of course the first…
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100% Whole Grain Sourdough
I’ve been wanting to make a 100% whole wheat bread because I love the intense flavor. I think it really suits the cold wintery days we’ve been having. However, 100% whole wheat bread has a tendency to be… flat and yucky. When the hard shell of the wheat berry, called bran, is ground up to…
Pumpkin Brown Sugar Sourdough
It’s that time of the year. I’ve been seeing pumpkins everywhere and wanted to try to make a pumpkin sourdough that was sweet(ish), but not too sweet, and had plenty of pumpkin flavor. I wanted cinnamon and warm spices, sweet earthiness, and also the savory funkiness that comes with sourdough. And honestly, we got there….
Sourdough Purple Sweet Potato Rolls
This week I saw a beautiful purple sweet potato at the grocery store, and I instantly knew I had to have it. I’d been thinking about making potato rolls for a few weeks, and seeing this purple sweet potato affirmed that it was meant to be. I found a food mill at a garage sale…
Tomato Pesto Sourdough
Sometimes you have a hankering to make bread but you don’t want to make plain regular bread because it’s boring so instead you open your pantry and you stare inside until something speaks to you. Maybe I should clarify… regular bread is obviously delicious, but when someone asks me what kind of bread I’m making…
Overnight White Sourdough
For a long time I wondered if I should come back to this blog. I’ve always been making bread in some capacity, but I worried that it would be weird if I posted again after a long hiatus. What would people think when they saw a notification in their inbox from a blog they followed…
Bagels
A few weeks ago I tried to make bagels. They were not delicious, and not at all pretty. It was deeply upsetting, because let’s be real, bagels are just weird shaped tiny bread. If they aren’t pretty they have to taste good, and they couldn’t even do that. Here’s what they looked like: See? They…
Feta Olive Rustic Loaf
Salt is amazing. We are wired to love it, and it is wired to not love us. Although salt isn’t very healthy, it is necessary (“necessary”) in small amounts to make bread taste good, and to make most things taste good. One of my preferred methods of salt intake is feta cheese, which is wonderfully…
Applesauce Buns
There’s nothing better on a cool fall day than warm apple sauce. It’s a fact and the entire world agrees. Ask anyone. Another thing that is perfect and amazing and makes you feel like you’re back home on the prairie is fresh bread. The combination of the two is a medley too perfect for words….
Pizza Bread
Pizza is one of the select items that I could literally eat every day and, although I’d be a thousand pounds, I would be very very happy. So it would basically be worth it. It is a wonderful combination of bread, sauce, cheese, and literally anything else you want. So two of the greatest things…
Empanadas
Sometimes I spend the boring parts of my classes thinking about food. And by sometimes, I mean all the time. If a professor starts mumbling about why I’m going to definitely need to know the intricacies of the Seiberg-Witten Theory, the chance that I’m contemplating my lunch is 100%. It’s where I come up with…
Avacado Croissants
Sometimes I like to pretend like I’m a healthy eater. I’m really not, because I eat a lot of junk and a lot of butter, because it’s delicious, but I can still pretend. I’ve come up with a really good system to convince myself I eat well. Every day I eat a lot of unhealthy food, I…
The Bread Formula 