Roasted Red Pepper: My Favorite Mediterranean Pizza Topping
(photo by Mark Luinenburg) If you’ve read any of our books, you know that this particularly photogenic fruit (or is it a vegetable?) seems to have captured our imagination. After a year of perfecting...
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Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Pizzette
The concept for these little pizza/tarts came from a family recipe. My cousin, Riad Nasr, is a world class chef and quite often the source of inspiration in my kitchen. He practices his craft in New...
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Hot Cross Buns!
(This is a post that first appeared in 2009 – we hope it is fresh for some and a welcome memory for others!) “Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, everybody loves hot cross buns!” are the words to the...
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Braided Fruit Danish: New Video
It’s not really braided. Here’s another, with savory fillings from an earlier post; same idea but with Spinach, Feta, and Pine Nuts. The trick is not difficult, check out the video of how it’s done...
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English Granary-Style Bread
I am so pleased to be able to bring you English Granary-Style Bread today, a recipe we first published in Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day (2007). Frustrated! Two kinds of malted grain provide a...
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Herb Crock-Pot Dinner Rolls – Summer Baking
Weather is something we Minnesotans take great pride in. We love our winters, mostly for the bragging rights of surviving them, and the fact that it can go from -40° to 90°F in a blink of an eye. This...
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Baked Apple Doughnuts with Gold Medal Flour – updated
It is that time of year again in Minnesota, when the weather goes from 90°F one day, to 48°F the next. It is bittersweet to lose summer, but we enthusiastically head into baking season. This time of...
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Grilled Sandwiches Three Ways
Hey all, we want to introduce Sarah Kieffer to you; she’ll be doing some photography for the site, including the shots in this beautiful post. Zoe and I met Sarah on the Web (where else), where she...
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The Refrigerator Rise Trick on Crazy-Busy Thanksgiving Morning: Fresh Rolls...
Some people shy away from yeast breads and rolls at busy holidays because they think the proofing step (the rest after the loaves or rolls are shaped) is too time-consuming, even with our stored...
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Thanksgiving Leftovers Torta
No matter how big your Thanksgiving feast is or how many people are gathered around your table, chances are there’s more leftovers than you know what to do with. Here is a way to use the extra turkey,...
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Soft Puerto Rican Sweet Buns (Mallorca) with Gold Medal Flour
For spring break my family visited Puerto Rico. It took me less than 24 hours to find myself an amazing local bakery with all kinds of tasty pastries and breads to try. My favorites, which I managed...
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Bruschetta with Fig Compote
As you can imagine, I tend to make a lot of bread. And while most of it gets eaten gladly, there are times when the bread box is filled with loaves that have gone stale. I never find it too hard to be...
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Pumpkin Swirl Bread
Pumpkin pie and brioche are two of my all time favorites, so why not combine the two. The result is a bread rich with butter, eggs and spiced pumpkin puree. Spreading the pumpkin onto the brioche...
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Christmas Stollen
There is 20 inches of snow on the ground here in Minneapolis and the temperature has dipped WAY below zero. This is why we Minnesotans are such bakers, it warms up the house and makes everyone happy....
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Savory Bread Pudding – how to use up leftover bread
When we wrote our first book we were testing dozens of loaves a week, and despite our healthy appetites, we just couldn’t consume all that we baked. Our neighbors were happy to take some of the bread,...
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Doughnuts
I was thrilled when doughnuts took over as the “hot dessert trend” from the fanciful cupcake. I do like cupcakes, but they don’t excite me like a freshly made doughnut. These days you can find gourmet...
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Whole Grain Loaves without Vital Wheat Gluten, and Highlights from the Mill...
Return to FAQs When we wrote Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day in 2009, we made a strategic choice. We knew that most of our readers liked their bread light and fluffy, and our refrigerator storage...
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SkinnyTaste Hot Soup and Fresh Bread on a Cold Night!
It wasn’t that long ago I spent a magic filled weekend with Todd and Diane (White on Rice Couple) in their California studio. It was one of those experiences I will never forget. Not only is their sun...
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Weighing The Ingredients: Whole Grain Baguette Buns With Extra Sourdough...
Return to FAQs page Before I launch into these fantastic buns, our winner of the SuperPeel was… Sandy! Congrats, we’ll be in touch. That contest is now closed. In this post, I’ll go through the method...
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Braided Savory Spinach, Feta, and Pine Nut Dinner Pastry
This started out as a dessert post, but then I looked out the window, and it’s October in Minnesota, and fresh berries from the U-pick farm are long over with. My family needs something warming...
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