Buttermilk Honey Bread

It’s been a while since I made this bread, but I’ve been backed up with other goodies to post that I’ve neglected this one.  We hosted Easter dinner for some of our friends this year, and along with Strawberry Mirror Cake and Pineapple Casserole, I wanted to make a bread.  Even though I don’t eat [...]

Soft Pretzels

My husband is a sucker for soft pretels.  When we’re at the mall, he looks at Auntie Annie’s longingly, wishing for some of that warm, doughy goodness (and I almost always encourage him to just get one!).  He doesn’t make many requests, but he has been requesting some homemade pretzels, so I decided to make [...]

Rustic Dinner Rolls

Since I’ve gotten into making homemade bread this past year, I wanted to make some special bread for Thanksgiving this year.  I thought about making Parker House Rolls again since I liked them so much last time I made them, but when I saw these rolls in Cook’s Illustrated, I knew I wanted to make [...]

Whole Wheat Dinner Bread

Bread is one of those side items that seems to make an appearance at pretty much any dinner.  Most of the time it’s not very memorable.  That’s why I was pleasantly surprised when we were at a dinner party not too long ago and the bread that the hosts served with the (already fabulous) dinner [...]

September Daring Bakers: Lavash Crackers

This was a new experience for the Daring Bakers group this month, as the hosts made it easy for the bakers to go gluten free.  Natalie of Gluten a Go Go and Shel of Musings from the Fishbowl chose the Lavash Crackers from Peter Reinhart’s book The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. I was excited about this [...]

Parker House Rolls

I really wanted to find a good recipe for dinner rolls.  I just wanted simple rolls that could be served with any kind of meal.  We recently had some good friends of ours over for dinner and served a classic dinner of meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and green beans.  I thought that a classic dinner such [...]

Croissants

Croissants have been on my list of things to make for a while now, and this weekend I decided that it was time to finally go for it and make them. Chelle and I had talked about baking something together, and when I mentioned that I had been wanting to make croissants, she said [...]

Bagels

I actually made these at the end of June, but am just getting around to posting!  I had been wanting to try homemade bagels for quite some time, and when I was flipping through Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, I knew that I wanted to give his recipe a try. The recipe is [...]

Cinnamon-Sugar Doughnuts

David told me that he was craving doughnuts. They had been on my list of things to make for a while, so I decided to go for it. I looked through my cookbooks to help me figure out which kind to make. I had recently bought Sherry Yard’s cookbook: The Secrets of [...]

The Best Pizza Dough

Chelley read my mind this week when she made this pizza dough. Over the weekend I decided that I wanted pizza sometime this week and the recipe that Chelley used was the same recipe that I had planned to try. I had previously tried a recipe from allrecipes.com that was popular for a [...]