February 12, 2024
I woke up with an urge to use the leftover dough from the Valentine’s Day monkey bread for a mini King Cake! Because it is Fat Tuesday πππ Since it was in the fridge for a couple of days it was very easy to work with! A little bit of Read more…
February 11, 2024
For this next installment, some savory to contrast the sweet. Being a New Yorker, the love of a good bagel has been instilled in me as is the love of tiny crumbs of flavor coating said bagels. I made my own heart-shaped bagels for this holiday of love. Once again, Read more…
January 21, 2024
With a big bag of Butterfly Pea Flower powder at my disposal, I was on the hunt for uses right away. I found this very basic recipe to help create what we called “Butterfly Bread” — for its beautiful periwinkle hue and the shape the swirls made. But first, first Read more…
July 16, 2023
I would like to get back into making my own bread. With such simple ingredients it seem odd to buy chemical laden loaves. So this was a good start, simple… great texture and chew… but I didn’t like the flavor overall. I will be trying out recipes until one suits Read more…
April 27, 2021
Tempted by the occasion of National Pretzel Day, I made a batch of pretzels–the oldest snack in the world–using this very easy recipe. A bit of a neurotic, I love a recipe like this–one where active tasks are broken up with time to do the dishes. And like many, it Read more…
February 11, 2021
Ok, so bread isn’t a typical Valentine’s Day treat… but this bread… this bread! Come on! With a few tweaks to this recipe from Foodie.Yuki, maker of show-stopping Instagram eats, you too may create this Leopard Milk Bread from just basic pantry items. It utilizes the tangzhong breadmaking method to Read more…
January 30, 2021
I’ve always wanted to make a vegan King Cake, the festive bread traditionally eaten during the feast of Epiphany on January 6–when those three wise men finally got to Bethlehem to give Baby Jesus those impractical gifts. But the purple, green and yellow cake’s season extends to Fat Tuesday, the Read more…
December 7, 2020
A belated birthday Babka for my friend would be cause to make a huge mess in the kitchen today. Using the crazy-easy recipe from Make It Dairyfree, I created a gorgeously curvaceous loaf of chocolate babka. To follow are my hopefully helpful notes on the process… 1.) Check your yeast. Read more…
November 23, 2020
Yes, yes, I got bit by the Ube bug… the bright purple potato that has been sweeping the baking nation. But fresh ube, which many mistake for one of the several purple sweet potato varieties, is pretty hard to attain in these parts. Luckily, the Stokes Purple sweet potato would Read more…
July 10, 2020
After not feeling much baking motivation as of late, today I got my groove back! I made another two loaves on this decidedly inside day. Using Lil Cookie’s Chocolate Babka recipe, motivated by an all-day binge-watch of The Great British Bake Off, my counter now has 4 loaves of bread. Read more…
After watching bread week on The Great British Bake Off, I longed for the waft of bread baking in the oven. The rainy day made for the perfect opportunity. That and I have bread on the grocery list. Inspired by the simplicity of this guy’s video and recipe, I made Read more…
May 13, 2020
I thought I made this up. The idea was born in my brain and not in a Google search. Then I searched it and a few folks had thought of it, though mostly it was a reposting of the same recipe by The Nosher/My Jewish Learning by on several different Read more…
April 18, 2020
I guess making bread is officially a quarantine thing. And how wonderful is that! I am certainly enjoying my foray into bread making–and learning a lot about manipulating dough, something that helped this loaf be a big success. And this recipe is pretty easy. Check out the first rise… π Read more…
April 6, 2020
Because I don’t want to go to the grocery store these days, I am trying more bread making. This focaccia from Miyoko’s Homemade Vegan Pantry is really easy. But you have to wait to let the yeast do its thing. I let this pile of dough rise for 24 hours, Read more…
March 26, 2020
I decided to make a loaf of bread late last night–because why the heck not? Now that mornings are basically this: I used this recipe… but I definitely didn’t allow it to prove enough. These dough balls should have been oozing out of the pan. But it’d be a mini-loaf. Read more…
March 16, 2020
Growing up, St. Patrick’s Day was another reason to celebrate with a bakery cake. My mother dressed me and my siblings up celebrate our Irish heritage with dorkish results. Here is me and my brother dressed to the nines one such St. Patrick’s Day. Today I still like to honor Read more…
June 30, 2019
Because it was a better value, I bought a large quantity of active dry yeast. I don’t want it to expire without a few great dough endeavors! After I gave cinnamon rolls another try, it was time to experiment again and expand my baking skills. When I saw this Milk Read more…
January 10, 2011
I miss my good camera, my SLR. While my baby is getting a preventative maintenance and cleaning, here we are. This ol’ point & shoot 6 mega-pixel is hardly the powerhouse it was years ago. And so in the midst of January Pantry Turnover, an annual purge of dry goods Read more…
August 2, 2010
I have finally picked up a breadmaking book: The Bread Book by Sara Lewis. It’s a gorgeous book with tons of innovative bread recipes that are very easily veganizable. Yes, it isn’t an exclusively vegan cookbook. I don’t believe there are any bread ones! (Can someone get on that?) This Read more…
May 9, 2010
Ms. CandyPenny recently tried her hand at making bagels from scratch, de la Vegan Brunch. In an effort to channel her spirit back to New York, I thought I’d give it a go myself. Rise, rise, rise… is one of those words that starts to look misspelled when you type Read more…
April 7, 2010
A week and a half out of the classroom and I was a bit irked I had nothing to show for it in the refrigerator. Realizing the end of my free time was near I rose at the crack of dawn to beat the day mayors to the supermarket and Read more…
March 30, 2010
Here is my latest breadmaker creation: Black Forest Pumpernickel bread. How cool does that sound? It makes me think that the bread absorbed the deep and dark evening in the forest, that small trolls had been stomping about it, imprinting their little foot paths into the porous exterior. But perhaps Read more…
March 22, 2010
With a slew of produce from Fresh Direct panting in their plastic bags in my refrigerator, tonight I was in “use it or lose it” mode. This mode refers specifically to my disgust of food waste, my want for efficiency and my need to make lunch for the week. With Read more…
January 30, 2010
Back at 3 Brothers again. I plan to take full advantage of this place’s proximity to me. There is so much to try too. This time, we got a little fancy-pants and ordered the eggplant rollatini appetizer, which was as huge as a stand alone meal. What I love about Read more…
January 7, 2010
Mr. and Mrs. Claus brought me a breadmaker this year and I am determined to never buy a loaf of bread again. I am pretty good with “never” doing things ever again when I am feel it necessary. Whether it be my strong will or my inherited stubbornness, when I’m Read more…
October 10, 2009
I’ve long wanted to visit Mexico to celebrate Dia de los Muertos. And this year I am! I will be heading to Guadalajara and staying with friends before heading to Guanajuato to take part in the sacred festival of the departed. Though I am only slightly disappointed that we won’t Read more…