Just Baking

The birds, from my mental To-Try list:

A flatbread
More rye bread
A bread that doesn’t take all day (or longer) to make
A recipe from Daniel Leader’s new book, Local Breads

And the stone:

Leader’s Rye-Fennel Crackerbread from far northern Italy was absolutely painless to make, a real treat to eat, and a welcome break from boules and batards. It […]

When you sit down to a nice meal, what do you look forward to the most? Is it the main course, the salad, the dessert? I do look forward to all of those things, but the one thing I really look forward to is the bread. I’m a bread girl…I love my carbs. Crusty bread, […]

I went a bit nuts for the The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook (which is actually nut-free by the way), as well evidenced by the book review and blog post I put up within one week.  Mixing home-style and gourmet, this cookbook is more about good (real) food than any sort of special diet.
Of course, my favorite […]

Ever since I learned how to make scones last year, I always keep an extra batch of scone dough in the freezer. It’s something handy to have, especially for Saturday morning when we don’t feel like eating pancakes (our weekend breakfast ritual). All we have to do, is simply to heat the oven […]

Have you ever had a recipe that you’ve always wanted to make but never got around to? I’m sure most of you can empathize with my sentiment; having a recipe that wouldn’t (or couldn’t) go away because it was stuck in the recesses of your brain waiting to become real. For me, the […]

Feeling for all the world as if I had just swallowed a ton of bricks, the dread of leaving for school grew only more powerful as the hours passed, my days in a comfortable home numbered and quickly slipping away. There wasn’t a thing I could say to express my jumbled emotions, no matter […]

I am back again!  I apologize for anyone that was reading any of my stuff and noticed I haven’t been posting.
To be frank, it’s been just too hot to bake in the house!  So what I’m writing about today is the anticipation of baking weather… Autumn!
The smells of yeasty dough, baking bread, melty butter on […]

Recently, when Quinn and I were craving something chocolate, I pulled out one of my favorite cookbooks, Chocolate by Nick Malgieri. Obvious choice for a chocolate recipe, right? And there are so, so many tempting ones within its pages.
After flipping through the recipes, I decided it was high time I tried out his […]

My baby started Kindergarten today and over the weekend, I had myself all worked up about it. In my mind, I had imagined every “worst case scenario” and had cried buckets of tears stressing about the “First Day of Kindergarten Event”. I told myself to hold it together this morning…no matter what, I could not […]

Today Just Baking is still baking, but savory style.  We had company for the other day and I strongly debated about getting take-out, but a craving for comfort food and an old classic took hold instead. I originally found this recipe, No Peek Casserole, on a coupon message board, of all places. They have a […]