Sometimes the best discoveries come from happy accidents. I made a pan of caramel cinnamon buns and I was the only one home to eat them. That in itself is no great tragedy, I took great pleasure in sitting down with a cup of coffee and a warm sticky bun in the perfection of solitude. […]
‘Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river and through the wood – Now grandmother’s cap I spy! Hurrah for the fun! Is the pudding done? Hurrah for the pumpkin-pie!’ (Thanksgiving Day, by […]
This week is the one time a year when we purposefully make our food look creepy. Halloween is great fun for the kids, but we adults love to play with our food too, and its great fun to watch people squirm just a bit. Even though these breadsticks are ghoulish, they are crunchy and delicious […]
Last weekend I lived the ultimate bread bakers’ dream. Thanks to my friends at Red Star Yeast I travelled to the heart of wheat country in Kansas and had the great honor of judging the National Festival of Breads baking contest. The contestants submitted their recipes and were chosen from hundreds of bread bakers from […]
You may open a bucket of dough that’s been untouched for several days or more and find it’s gray, leathery and has some liquid on it (pictures below), with a strong “sourdough” smell to it, since it had been fermenting for a very long time. For those of us who like that kind of character […]
Whenever Zoe and I are on the Splendid Table, NPR’s cooking show starring Lynne Rossetto Kasper, we leave behind a recipe. Now the show’s national listeners have voted our basic recipe as their all-time favorite (click to view). Thanks Lynne, and all the great producers who create this national show right here in St. Paul, Minnesota. […]
(photo by Stephen Scott Gross) (video by Sarah Kieffer) Many of the folks who are baking from Gluten-Free Bread in Five Minutes a Day have asked: What’s the dough supposed to look like? How do you handle such unstructured dough? What’s it look like when baked? Click on the “play” button in the video image above […]
Page 164-165, Bagels: These are best done on a heavy-duty baking sheet prepared with parchment paper; drop the formed bagels right on there and rest them, covered with plastic wrap for 20 minutes. The recipe as published in the book makes it seem like you’re forming them right on a baking stone and putting the stone […]
“Hertzberg and François offer foolproof recipes for (gluten-free) bread…” I was in Columbus recently, and had the distinct pleasure of driving around town at dusk, looking for a hotel (I’d made my reservation for the wrong month). Great town, dumb business traveler! Lisa Abraham (@DispatchKitchen), the Food Editor at the Columbus Dispatch, has covered all […]
The idea for a gluten-free version of The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day started here on the website. People were writing in to say they loved the method, but couldn’t eat wheat. It set off a quest to develop recipes that fit this fast and easy method but used flours that were […]