A friend in NY told me she used to have lavender a lot in food as a kid, and that I should look into lavender bread (pursuant my continual rosemary bread obsession). This is based on the first good-looking lavender bread recipe I could find, though, and it’s a somewhat sweet non-yeast bread that relies [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bread’
beefs
In case you were wondering, Julia Child’s boeuf bourguignon IS that complicated. Spelling it right is, too. Kim and I set out to recreate this epic dish and, even starting as a two-person team, it was still about a six-hour process. I also don’t know how Amy Adams had time to fall asleep, because there [...]
As in “happy as a”
Here are some facts about clams:
They are delicious! While they steam they emit this stunningly tasty broth. Look into it.
They are cheap, esp. for seafood! $5/lb is the price for Manila clams down at the Berkeley Bowl, and that is definitely enough to feed two people.
When you buy them… they are STILL ALIVE. Creepy, eh?
This [...]
Sandwiches!
Sandwiches from mostly scratch.
recent foods I have baked
First I baked rosemary bread yet again, for a dinner party, following this recipe for an unkneaded peasant bread. This time it came out much much lighter, fluffier, and more delicious. Basically I followed the directions more carefully and this worked (who knew!) although I also stuck my roommate’s pizza stone in the oven while [...]
Strawberry French Toast
I’ve recently discovered very delicious french toast, made entirely from scratch. First you need to make strawberry bread: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/strawberry-bread-recipe
Both times I’ve made the loaf I have had to add a little bit of water after the kneading process, but not a huge amount.. The bread tastes pretty good by itself. It is sweet, but not [...]
Whole-wheat cranberry bread
So I had these amazing whole-wheat cranberry walnut rolls from Whole Foods yesterday. Then I had a rainy Sunday afternoon. Guess what happens next.
Recipe from the back of the whole-wheat King Arthur Flour – I’d heard good reviews of it even though it does things I normally feel like are cheating, such as add oil [...]
Rosemary Bread sans Rosemary
From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, “I am man!”, our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself. Tonight, we shall bake bread!
Rosemary bread: the sequel
After typing up my old recipe for rosemary bread, I felt like I had to bake something, so I tried the aforementioned un-kneaded rosemary peasant bread. It came out surprisingly light and even of crumb despite the lack of kneading, and lumpy-looking but in that ‘rustic’ kind of way. I got real sea salt and [...]
rosemary bread: an ongoing story
I am obsessed with bread. Slowly yet steadily, and with many lumpy first attempts, baking will yeild its secrets to me, and I will become the greatest baker in Japan create the bread of nationalism yes. The rosemary bread recipe I’ve used in the past is based off of this, but someday soon I hope [...]