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Notes from my kitchen, in which I bake bread and raise a few other things

Recent Posts Tagged With 'sourdough'

• Cranberry-Oat Sourdough Scones

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 02:00 in cranberries, oat flour, oats, recipes, small breads, sourdough, sweet breads, whole wheat

  My brilliant, talented, and beautiful niece R moved into her dorm at Berkeley this past weekend. I wanted to send her off with something as sweet as she is, yet also, like R, health-conscious and a li...

• Blackberry-Plum Sourdough Tart

  Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 02:00 in blackberries, dessert, events, fruit, plums, recipes, shf, sourdough, sugar high friday, tart

  This tart was inspired by two things: the lovely sourdough plum cake I spotted a couple of weeks ago on Steffen’s Dinners, and the abundance of blackberries that grow all over this wild little t...

• Semolina Bread with Fennel & Currants (and Pine Nuts)

  Posted on Tuesday November 6th, 2007 at 18:30 in baguette, currants, fennel, pne nuts, semolina, sourdough

  When it comes to baking, I would make a terrific Boy Scout. I just do not like to be caught unprepared. 50-pound bag of flour? Check. At least 10 pounds of high-extraction flour in the refrigerator ...

• World Bread Day, World Food Day, and a Recipe

  Posted on Tuesday October 16th, 2007 at 07:00 in boule, bread, high-extraction flour, hunger, info, pumpkin seeds, sourdough, sweet potatoes, world bread day, world food day

  Today is World Bread Day. The International Union of Bakers and Bakers-Confectioners designated this day to celebrate and honor the food that is, in many phraseologies, synonymous with “food.&...

• High-Extraction Miche

  Posted on Monday October 1st, 2007 at 14:36 in bread, high-extraction flour, levain, miche, sourdough

  A few days ago I brought one of these miches to dinner at the home of people I’d never met before. In retrospect, this was one of those “what was I thinking?” ideas, because it cou...

• How I Maintain My Sourdough Starter

  Posted on Saturday September 29th, 2007 at 11:09 in how to, sourdough, starter

  Take good note of the title of this post: How I Maintain My Sourdough Starter. Yes, this really is all about me. If you talk to ten people you’ll likely get ten different but perfectly good vari...

• Sourdough English Muffins

  Posted on Tuesday September 11th, 2007 at 07:00 in sourdough

  Wish I was an English muffin ‘Bout to make the most out of a toaster – Simon and Garfunkel, “Punky’s Dilemma” If you want to make the most out of your toaster, lose the...

• One Bread, Two Ways (98.4% Whole Grain Seeded Sourdough)

  Posted on Friday September 7th, 2007 at 07:00 in how to, sourdough, what not to do

  Did you look at the title of this post and think you were going to get something along the lines of one of those glossy magazine articles on how to live fashionably on a budget by taking a single out...

• Rye and Whole Wheat Sourdough for BreadBakingDay #3

  Posted on Sunday August 19th, 2007 at 21:00 in blogging events, sourdough

  Ulrike of Küchenlatein set the task for BBD #3: bread leavened exclusively with sourdough, preferably rye. The sourdough part did not make me nervous, but the rye part did. Rye bread and I do not e...