In my early bread baking days, I made a lot of brioche, primarily using a sourdough starter. My experience with the brioche dough has been generally…
Dorie Greenspan/ Other Breads/ quick bread/ scalable/ year round
Buttermilk-Molasses Rye Quick Bread | Baking with Dorie
This is a one-bowl quick bread recipe, slightly cake-like, very dark blend of rye, wheat and all-purpose flour by Dorie. Drawing on Dorie’s approach, I make…
breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Other Sweets/ straight dough/ Yeast bread
Cinnamon-Raisin Bread | Baking with Dorie
Strangely, no one seems to like this bread in my house. The bread hangs out on the kitchen counter for a week without being eaten. It’s…
brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Levain bread/ mezze (small plates)/ Tartine/ Toss
Eggplant and Ginger Tartines | Everyday Dorie
My education on tartines starts with Chad Robertson’s Tartine Bread. I’ve spent years learning and making the kind of sourdough breads sold at Tartine Bakery in…
cheese/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Italian/ Other Breads/ puff pastry/ Side
Potato-Parm Tart | Baking with Dorie
The potato-parm tart from Baking with Dorie is charming. The slices of potato are so thin they curl up under the heat like potato chips. I…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ enriched dough/ King Arthur Flour/ Yeast bread
Chocolate Babka | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
My family loves a good babka, especially the one from Liv Bread nearby, where there is always a line. The price has increased markedly, now costing…
breakfast/ dessert/ featured/ holidays/ Italian/ Yeast bread
Panettone Muffins | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
Panettone is an Italian Christmas classic bread which has gained a global profile. Do you notice that panettone, extravagantly wrapped and ribboned, is on the shelves…
Bake/ cheese/ holidays/ Ina Garten/ Other Breads/ Side
Mushroom and Gruyère Bread Pudding | Ina Garten
The inspiration comes from sourdough bread crumbs sold by my favorite artisan bakery, Liv Breads. As in all good stuffing, it’s built on a good base.…
Cream/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ Other Breads/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Date & Oat Soda Bread with Salted Date Butter | Yotam Ottolenghi
Lately there are several soda bread recipes that catch my attention, this is one of them. Soda bread has a key role to play for bakers…
The old-world Irish soda bread uses coarse whole wheat flour, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk (if you were flush), or sour milk (if you were struggling).…
Consider this bread a baking adventure. Tackling 100% hydration in baker’s percentages is always challenging for bread makers. It’s not something we do often. At the…
There are food you may be less inclined to make at home. Bagels fall in that category. The pandemic does many things. It upends our…
Consider the pull-apart sour cream and chive rolls by Claire Saffitz, like the Parker House dinner rolls or the likes of savory pork buns. And there…
I like making my own bread, and haven’t bought bread from bakeries or stores for a long while. Homemade bread is not only sustaining, it makes…
I seem to be on a constant lookup for an industrial-strength flatbread recipe that’s easy-going and produces consistent results. I think this recipe from momofuku.com might…
Is it make-believe chorizo or tofu? The “chorizo” tacos by Mark Bittman are the meatless alternative to the real thing. It might be fake chorizo, but…
Layering a chicken chili with a cornbread topping, that’s the essence of a chicken-chili tamale pie. This is my first. It’s very much like the way…
Appetizer/ foundation recipe/ mezze (small plates)/ Other Breads/ Roast/ Side/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Oyster Mushrooms Tacos with the Fixin’s | Ottolenghi
The “fixings” is the key word in this oyster mushroom tacos dish in Ottolenghi’s Flavor. What I mean is there is a lot of flexibility when…
The concept of no-knead bread is influential and revolutionary. J. Kenji López-Alt at the New York Times recently revisits this popular recipe on Wednesday, May 5th.…
dessert/ enriched dough/ Other Sweets/ pastry/ puff pastry/ Yeast bread
Kouign-amann | Dessert Person
Once you’ve mastered the croissant dough, kouign-amann, a pastry from Brittany, is within reach for those who want big challenges. Or perhaps, it’s another excuse to…
breakfast/ classics/ dessert/ enriched dough/ my favorites/ Other Sweets/ puff pastry/ whole wheat/ Yeast bread
Whole Wheat Croissant | Breakthrough Baking
The whole wheat croissants are the culminations of many years of baking and experimentations. Finally, we get something satisfactory we can present on this blog after…
The Irish soda bread from Ina Garten is the American version of the traditional Irish soda bread. Instead of the conventional whole wheat, we use 100%…
Appetizer/ convection steam/ Side/ Steam/ whole wheat/ Yeast bread
Steamed Flower Buns with Scallions (Hua Juan) | Year of the Ox
A dear friend gave me rolls of her beautifully handwritten red couplets around this time a year ago in Hong Kong. How the world has changed…
A good alternative to a tomato-based pizza is a white pizza. Make the white base with mascarpone, pecorino, anchovies, sage and lemon zest and a good…
Haven’t been making focaccia for a while. Why? For some reasons and for a long time, the focaccia have not turned out as well as I’ve…