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Bread Challenge, Week 2: Whole Wheat Pita
This is a recipe that I originally printed out in 2009, and just finally got around to making. The printout has been banging around my kitchen for more than two years, and has become stained with food...
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Bread Challenge, Week 4: Pain des Herbes de Provence
This recipe actually started out as simple Rosemary Bread, but a search through my spice rack and pantry resulted in no rosemary. Fortuitously, my in-laws recently traveled to France, and brought me...
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Bread Challenge, Week 5: Olive Focaccia
When I began this project five weeks ago, Sarah asked that I include a recipe for bread containing kalamata olives. Now, I’m not sure if she meant bread with olives dispersed throughout, or with olives...
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Bread Challenge, Week 7: Cinnamon Swirl Bread
Since the 2012 Bread Challenge started, Fridays have been the day that I say, “Oh, shit. I have to decide what kind of bread I’m going to make this Sunday.” Luckily, the latest issue of Cook’s...
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Bread Challenge, Week 8: Pain de Campagne
For those of you wondering why there was no bread (or any other baked good) last week, I apologize: my oven died. It wasn’t the quick and painless death you would hope for, either; it was a slow and...
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Bread Challenge, Week 9: Classic Walnut Boule
First, let me be the first to express my own amazement that I’m actually still doing this project. Ten weeks of 2012, and I’ve made bread (or cake) for nine of them. Only missed one week because I...
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Bread Challenge, Week 11: Honey White Bread
Eleven weeks in, and I’m finally hauling out the boring old white bread recipe. Actually, this is probably my favorite bread recipe – trusty, never-fail, delicious. You might call it my Wonder Bread....
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Bread Challenge, Week 13: Naan
Tuesday night, I had dinner with my friends Marion and Kim, at Jose Malone’s in Troy. Obviously, a Mexican joint (they used to have Irish food on the menu, too, but Kim said they took it off.). Of...
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Bread Challenge, Week 14: The NY Times’ No-Knead Bread
My friend Dick has, since I announced my Bread Challenge back in January, been pestering me to try the NY Times’ famous recipe for No-Knead Bread. Well, maybe not *pestering*. He did gently remind me...
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Panera Bread’s Secret Hidden Menu
Now, I don’t want to get into a discussion about how Panera doesn’t make their breads in-store, about how the dough is made elsewhere and shipped frozen to the shops – no. This post is about something...
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A Year of Loaves
Some people pledge to take a photo per day, some pledge to one blog post per day. I am always envious when others challenge themselves successfully, and I often wonder if I have the tenacity to adhere...
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Bread Challenge, Week 1: Oatmeal Flax Molasses Bread
I didn’t waste any time with this project – January 1, 2012 was Oatmeal-Flax Molasses Bread day. I chose this bread for one main reason: I happen to have molasses. I buy one bottle every two years or...
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