So what do when you’re testing bread recipes, and you find yourself with a surfeit of bread? Why make bread pudding!
Bread pudding is one of those easy things to whip up, and if you are familiar with Michael Ruhlman‘s book Ratios, once you understand that bread pudding is basically custard with lots of stuff in it, [...]
“The August 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonful
of Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular Dobos
Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers’ cookbook Kaffeehaus: Exquisite
Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague.”
Last week, I realized that I had not yet tackled the August challenge [...]
Since getting the book Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, I have had bread dough on the go in the fridge on an ongoing basis. I actually had to cut it back a bit (I was told there was too much bread, as if there is such a thing!). I really like the flavours that [...]
I have been on the lookout lately for tasty recipes for gluten-free, dairy-free baked goods. There seems to be more demand for gluten-free cooking as people become more aware of things like celiac disease and other food intolerences. Cooking gluten-free is fairly straightforward to come up with recipes for, but baking gluten-free is understandably a bit [...]
Still snowing, so decided to make chicken pot pie: Comfort food on a snowy day! The recipe is a basic one, basically chicken and vegetables in a veloute sauce, enriched with a bit of cream… and some vermouth. I have been using Noilly Pratt the last month or so, as I had some in the liquor [...]
