Casatiello

This is another bread that I made from Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. Once again, he didn’t lead me astray. This was a fantastic bread. I had actually never heard of Casatiello until I got this book, but I was almost immediately drawn to the beautiful picture. I knew [...]

Challah

This is the second recipe I’ve made from Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. I am totally loving this book. I like that it is not just a collection of recipes. Reinhart devotes a large portion of his book to the science behind bread baking and gives a thorough explanation of [...]

Tuesdays With Dorie: Brioche Raisin Snails

This week’s Tuesdays With Dorie recipe is Brioche Raisin Snails, chosen by Peabody of Culinary Concoctions by Peabody. Thanks Peabody for choosing a wonderful and delicious recipe! I loved the opportunity to try something new, as I had never made brioche before. This was also my first time setting fire to something [...]

Check out these buns!

Making Julia Child’s French Bread for my first Daring Baker challenge peaked my interest in bread making. I had done it before, but didn’t have a lot of experience with it. I recently ordered Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, and I want to make bread baking a regular experience for me. [...]

Julia Child’s French Bread- My First Daring Bakers Challenge!

After the Lemon Meringue Pies were posted in January, I became intrigued with the Daring Bakers. I had seen bloggers post about it before, but had never really paid attention to what it really was. Since I now have a food blog myself, I decided to look into it. It seemed like [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie: Pecan Sour Cream Biscuits

For this week’s installment of Tuesdays with Dorie, Ashley of eat me, delicious chose the Pecan Sour Cream Biscuits. It was a nice change of pace from the heavy desserts we have been making the past few weeks. It’s been so long since I’ve made biscuits and it was nice to make them [...]

Southern Cornbread

David and I cooked dinner for our church group and I decided to make cornbread to go with our main dish, Baked Louisiana Dirty Rice and Beans. I don’t have a good recipe for cornbread that I am satisfied with, but this was very good. It had a great flavor and had a [...]

Banana Bread

I’ve been making this banana bread recipe from the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook for many years now. This is the recipes my mom always used. I made a loaf as a Christmas gift this year. A nice thing about this bread is that you can freeze it. I also like [...]