This post is being made as a visual record for some minor hydration adjustments of the earlier Italian bread post. The dough is shaped into the traditional loaf rather than the braid.


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NOTE: The potato gnocchi soup below is a tomato based adaptation of the kale and sausage soup posted here.

After an indulgent last dim sum outing with my nephew, on Friday, I used the afternoon to make another bread that I had added to my 'to do' list, while I was flourless.

The recipe came from the King Arthur Flour web site and is called a " ( Read more... )

The national recipes for 'French' and 'Italian' breads are limited in terms of what CAN and CAN'T be used in them in order to be able to legally use those terms. I decided to make a loaf of "Italian" bread using the recipe posted on the King Arthur website.

ETA: The recipe uses four ingredients for the bread: flour, water, salt and yeast ( Read more... )

Last year I was feeling a bit adventurous so, along with my usual purchase of a 20 kg bag of Canadian all purpose flour ($19.99 including tax), I came home with a 1 kg bag of imported Italian Tipo 00 flour (Camino brand, $2.99). This is a very finely milled wheat flour, often used for pizza dough and pasta, in Italy. This particular bag is listed ( Read more... )

I recently saw a post on one of my bread making FB groups about making potato bread/buns ... and I was intrigued ( Read more... )

I've only been baking with sourdough for a few years and though I've had more than a few great bakes, it's the failures that nag at me. One of my peeves is the inability to get good oven spring. So, this loaf made me very happy.

The original recipe was posted on a sourdough FB group but I also found it on the web here.


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These tasty breads are a product of the French colonization of Vietnam and similar to the French baguette. They're usually filled with sweet and tangy pickled vegetables and an assortment of cold cuts or warm grilled meats.

I made a trio of baguettes using the recipe posted on "Danang Cuisine" website. Though I weighed the all ( Read more... )

Getting tired of making the same old pizzas??

Make a calzone instead, using the same basic pizza dough. In whatever size you like ... 4, 6 or 8 inch.

NOTE: For another alternative to pizza, see the Buffalo chicken stromboli I posted a while ago.

Serve with a bowl of marinara sauce for dipping


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I was tempted by a liter of half price buttermilk (even if the best before date was a few days later) and made a couple of new recipes I had found on FB and the internet.

Buttermilk Biscuits - tasty enough but a bit too much butter for my taste and a fussy technique with results that didn't make me want to repeat the recipe.


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Whether you call it cozonac, kalacs/beigli, or babka, this sweet bread filled with ground nuts (usually walnuts), poppy seeds, raisins or even rahat/lokum (a gummy middle eastern candy known in the west as 'Turkish delight') is served at Easter and Christmas in many eastern European countries. I can't remember my mom ever making this though, ( Read more... )