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…
March 17, 2023
March is has been jam-packed… and so it is flying fast–much to my satisfaction. But I am baking through the month’s milestones. This time: St. Patrick’s Day. Irish Soda Bread is a simple favorite of mine. This loaf, adapted from Nora Cook’s recipe, would be the vibrant hue of the 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… 👀 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…
March 20, 2019
“She liked the last one I gave her. This one turned out better.” This special baked treat was not on my original vegan Game of Thrones menu, but it seems ridiculous not include the most famous of the series’ baked treats: Hot Pie’s Direwolf Bread. I also just used the 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…
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 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…