For Thanksgiving dinner I decided to make epi rolls. Epis are baguettes that have been snipped and shaped so that they look like a wheat stalk after baking. The pieces break off as individual rolls, which works great for a big family meal. I’ve only tried them once before and only did a...

We had a houseful of people for Thanksgiving, so my bread plan had to span a few days. On Thanksgiving Eve I made two loaves of challah bread – one for surf & turf dinner that night and the other for French Toast the morning after Thanksgiving. Back in January I did a bake-off...

I’m mad at bread, again. I’m not sure what’s going on with my sourdough lately, but my success rate has been very low. This past weekend I made two batches of sourdough, which I’m only counting as one loaf here. Saturday The Saturday batch didn’t even get baked....

We live in a major earthquake zone and try to be smart about being prepared. After seeing the impact of Hurricane Sandy back east, we took another pass on our emergency readiness at home. Under the scenario of staying at home for two weeks without power, I thought that we could bake bread in...

My 9 grain bread is delicious and has become a staple in our house. I tried a simpler approach to mixing the ingredients this time, and it seems to be a step for the better. My typical process, which I lifted from another recipe, is to mix the dough, let it rest for a few minutes, and then...

“The List” for my 100 Loaves project includes Cinnamon Rolls, which I haven’t tried yet. My friends Tom and Paula gave me the Tassajara bread book as a gift, and it has a great recipe for cinnamon rolls in it. It starts with their yeasted breakfast bread dough as the basis....

In preparing to make another batch of Tartine sourdough I reread the recipe in the book. He recommends using bread flour rather than the all purpose flour I’ve been using (not sure how I missed that the prior ten times I read this). Bread flour has a couple percent more gluten, which...

Here we go again: I want ciabatta, so our friends get ciabatta. Like my 9 grain, I have the ciabatta down pretty well. This is straight from Reinhart’s book and has never given me any trouble; plus it tastes wonderful. This bread is great for sandwiches if shaped as rolls, and makes...