Just Baking

If you’re anything like me, you may still be feeling the effects of those holiday indulgences that just kept adding up and up. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but it’s definitely time for a few changes for the healthier around here.
These 100% whole wheat pitas are not only 100% good for you, they also […]

If you think you can’t bake bread (which is probably a false notion, by the way), grissini are a sure-fire way to fast success.
These thin bread sticks could not be simpler to make. If you love playing with dough, you’ll get plenty of opportunity here. And who doesn’t love their eminently nosh-able crunch, not to […]

Focaccia is kind of like pizza’s puffier, less dressed cousin.  However, this is one of those rare occasions where nakedness conveys class instead of trash.  Instead of being slandered in the food tabloids for coming out of the oven wearing little more than some onions and herbs, focaccia is held in high esteem, like a […]

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 […]

I love to try new recipes. I love finding things that I have not tried before and branching out to taste new flavors. I would say that on an average week, I make a given 5 new recipes…sometimes more, rarely less. The internet recipe sites, all of the published cookbooks and magazines out there and […]

As my beloved dog, Isis, prepares to celebrate her 10th birthday today, I’ve come to notice that her tastes have become greatly refined since puppyhood, especially in earlier days when anything even borderline edible [And many things completely inedible, too] would end up in her mouth before we would ever see her approach. Deftly stalking […]

A common dinner for my girlfriend and myself is a couple of individual pizzas. I’ll get a package of flatbreads from the store and a couple of toppings to put on them. Flatbreads on the pan, toppings on the flatbread, oven, bake, pizza. Pretty simple but tastes great. The past couple of weekends I’ve been […]