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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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Flatbreads with Three-Garlic Butter | Flavor Bomb
In his newly released cookbook Flavor, Ottolenghi breaks down the fundamentals of what give food flavor and backs them up with some super delicious plant-based recipes.…
Fruit/ holidays/ King Arthur Flour/ sweet bread/ Yeast bread
Harvest Apple Challah | King Arthur Baking
Challah is a special bread in Jewish cuisine, typically eaten on ceremonial occasions such as Shabbat and major Jewish holidays. Rosh hashanah has begun, starting today.…
I need some burger buns to go with veggies burgers I’m making; so they have to be easy. I find this recipe on the King Arthur…
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Three-Pepper Veggie Burgers | Everyday Dorie
I make a three pepper veggie burger instead of a conventional beef burger because we generally prefer a plant-based diet. Now the challenge becomes whether I…
Dairy free/ Jim Lahey/ Low fat/ straight dough/ whole grain/ whole wheat/ Yeast bread
Whole Wheat Pita Bread | Jim Lahey
It has been a while since I last wrote about pita bread. Meanwhile, many of my favorite Middle Eastern dishes are best eaten handheld, like a…
You can find this butter-rich brioche dough, rolled into a free-form round, washed with egg and speckled with pearl sugar in every pasty shop in Saint-Tropez.…
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Sabich | Stuffed into Pita
I received two books as gifts recently: Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Israeli Soul by Michael Solomonov. These are exceptional cookbooks with a strong sense of…
There is no shortage of bread books in my cookbooks collection; I don’t usually think of The Gourmet Cookbook, edited by Ruth Reichl, as one of…
Bread-making is a homely ceremony that renews, energizes and nourishes. When I see a new and different bread recipe, I just couldn’t let go. Here I…
This is a global bun that dabbles in the world cuisine. First of all, it is a hybrid of the chinese steamed bun and duck confit,…
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No-Roll Stuffed Pizza with Ricotta and Arugula | A New Twist
An old adage goes: “guests and fish begin to smell after three days.” So the rule for house guests is generally a three-day max, even for…
When the sourdough starter is not ready for action, I reach for yeasted pre-ferments to jumpstart the bread making process. Or if a starter is not…
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Herbed-Baked Eggs | Shirred Eggs
The herbed-baked eggs are also known as shirred eggs. A dish consisting of an egg that is placed in a small buttered dish and broiled until the white…