By Nick • February 17, 2010
As some of you may know, I try to make a loaf of bread once a week. For the last year or so I’ve been making no knead bread as my go-to loaf. Betsy and I use this for sandwiches or toast throughout the week or just to snack on. Even though I completely love [...]
Posted in appetizers, baking, Easy Stuff, good food, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged appetizers, baking, bread, breads, cheese, cheese bread, food and drink, no knead bread, olive oil, pecorino, pecorino cheese, proofing
By Nick • November 23, 2009
I’m usually not one for pretty breads. I like my breads rustic and charred. But during the holidays it can be nice to change that up a bit and make a beautiful loaf of something. This braided bread is laced with walnuts and cranberries and tastes and pairs very nicely with other turkey day fare.
If [...]
Posted in baking, good food, Holidays, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged baking, bread, celebration bread, cranberries, cranberry bread, dried cranberries, walnuts
By Nick • October 28, 2009
Recently, Betsy had a bake sale at school (yes they still have bake sales in law school) and the options were either A) Nick bakes something or B) Funfetti. Not that I’m dissing on Funfetti… I actually love the stuff, but I figured we might not be the only bake sale participants who thought to [...]
Posted in baking, Holidays | Tagged baking, brown butter, cinnamon, cloves, cream cheese, cream cheese frosting, cupcakes, nutmeg, pumkin cupcakes, pumpkin
By Nick • October 7, 2009
I’ve been baking no knead bread every week or so for over a year now and I’m getting pretty decent at it. It’s really simple to learn and once you’ve made a few dozen loafs you start to pick up on subtle differences that make one loaf slightly better than the other.
Pretty much all of [...]
Posted in baking, Economical, good food, TIWSIMRIIHAR | Tagged baking, bread, bread makers, breads, cooking, food and drink, kalamata olives, kneading, kneading bread, loaf, no knead bread, olive bread, olive bread recipe, olives, proofing
By Nick • September 17, 2009
It shouldn’t be surprising that the first thing I wanted to make with my sourdough starter was an awesome sourdough loaf! As is sometimes the case I think with new starters, my loaf wasn’t really very sour. It had a bit of tang to it, but it wasn’t quite what I was expecting.
That’s okay though. [...]
Posted in baking, good food | Tagged baking, barm, bread, sourdough bread, starter
By Nick • August 11, 2009
I had this odd moment a few weeks ago at the checking out at the grocery store where I had five different kinds of flour in my cart. The cashier asked if I was a baker and I replied that I was a blogger. That was the end of that conversation.
As I got home though, [...]
Posted in Learning to Cook, musings | Tagged baking, flour, Learning to Cook, musings, wheat
