Visit our Bread Recipes page for more fantastic homemade breads! Bread with soup. Bread for toast. Bread to sop up the last streaks of sauce or gravy or pan juices. I suppose you might be able to survive without bread, but you sure can't live without it. A big, fat, puffy, chewy, golden loaf of homemade bread is just about the best thing that could possibly happen to your day. This is not one-hour or no-knead, but is so worth your time. This is another one of those foods that make you want to gnaw off your own foot while it's cooking; It smells so good that you just can't help yourself. When you tear a hot corner from this loaf and View Post
Everything Soft Pretzels
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! Did you know February is National Snack Food Month? Its true. And did you know that I am the (self-proclaimed) Queen of Snacks? It is in veritas.* *Wanton use of Latin proves either my royalty or the fact that I'm a homeschooling mom. I think this calls for a serious application of my snack food bonafides. (MORE LATIN!) There is no better way to kick off National Snack Food Month than with the King of All Snack Food (no relation): SOFT PRETZELS! Clearly, I'm excited here. I'm so excited I'm all capsy. Or should I say, I'M ALL CAPSY!? And exclamation marky?!?!! View Post
Roasted Garlic Rustic Sourdough Boule
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! After the time I spent at King Arthur Flour's Blog & Bake™ last week, I came home prepared to fling flour and bake my tush off. Oh, would that baking one's tush off was an actual possibility. Sadly, I find that most of my baking actually adds to my overall girth since I'm unable to restrain myself around a fresh loaf of good bread. That loaf you see above is a perfect example of what renders me weak in willpower and wobbly in the knees. You're looking at a Roasted Garlic Rustic Sourdough Boule. This particular bread is not one we prepared at Blog & Bake, View Post
Black Olive Sandwich Rolls
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! I have this little self-indulgent thing I do every time I go REAL grocery shopping. By real grocery shopping, I mean the kind where my husband stays home with the boys so that I don't have to fend off requests for everything from Japanese rice crackers to day-glo cereals to a giant ham to adult diapers (because can you even imagine how hilarious it would be if we bought those to wear to youth group over our pants?) My routine is this... I drive to the nearest biggish town and hit Aldi first where I probably look for all the world like a doomsday prepper with the View Post
Soft Pretzel Sandwich Rolls
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! There are few things I like more than a soft pretzel. A soft pretzel ROLL, though? That's taking soft pretzels to a whole new level of glory. Crusty, chewy, glossy, deep brown covered with coarse pretzel salt, a soft pretzel roll is the ultimate vehicle for any sandwich you fancy. Have you ever had a hamburger on a pretzel roll? Ungh. So good. For me, though, the apotheosis of sandwich-i-tude is a soft pretzel roll split in half, piled high with shaved smoked ham, blanketed with a thin slice of Swiss cheese, the top half of the roll, then shoved into the oven just View Post
No-Knead Cottage Cheese Dill Bread | Papa’s Dilly Bread
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! I have spent my entire life thinking my dad is pretty much the bees-knees and since he just keeps improving with age like a fine wine (or a stinky cheese, as he would say), I'll just keep carrying on that way. My dad has always been that perfect blend of serious, goofy, cautious and devil-may-care. For example, he'd make sure you put your seatbelt on before driving on roads that were closed due to weather conditions just because he could. Dad is one of those renaissance men. He's equally at home screaming at a hockey match, speaking in churches, ploughing snow, View Post
Ranch Bake-In-Slices Bread
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! This is going to be a little crazy all over the place, so please bear with me, but I have a lot of ground to cover. First -and most importantly- my entire family thanks you for all the condolences and expressions of support you've shared with us after the loss of Val. It means more to me personally than I can possibly say to know that you all are thinking of and praying for us. As weird as it feels to get back to doing normal, every day things, it really does have to happen, so here I am! Next, I hope you've noticed the pretty new dress Foodie with View Post
English Muffin Bread
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! English muffins hold a very special place in my heart. How could you possibly not love the craggy, full-of-holes, moist bread and the crunchy, toasty bits of cornmeal stuck to the outside that transfer to your fingers when you grip it? I love them every which way, from the English muffin pizzas my mom used to make as after-school treats, to dripping with butter and slathered with berry jam or marmalade, to topped with a fried egg and a good squeeze of rooster sauce. I can't imagine my life without English muffins. Yet, as much as I love English muffins, that View Post
Pesto Pinwheel Rolls | Arugula and Walnut Pesto
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! There isn't anything that is necessary to say about these rolls other than a resounding "WOW!" but not being a woman of few words, I'm going to say a bunch anyway. Once again, I break out what is now pretty firmly cemented as my best-loved bread dough of all time. But I should backtrack a bit... Before my husband went on his mega-monster business trip, I went to the grocery store and panic purchased not just the toilet paper, paper towels and saltine crackers, but also massive cuts of meat, human-sized bags of oranges and potatoes, and food service packages of View Post
Mini Cheddar Scallion Monkey Breads
There's very little cheese in this recipe. That is, there's not so much cheese compared to the sum total amount of cheese in, say, Wisconsin or Vermont. There's really not a whole lot compared to what you would find in my favourite cheese factory and shoppe. But otherwise? There is a ton of cheese in and on these mini monkey breads. As in a lot. Very much. A whole cheesy bunch. Mmm. Cheese. What we have here is little pieces of cheese bread dough tossed with minced scallions (Because onions and Cheddar cheese? They're like *this*!) and olive oil, plopped into muffin tins and capped with a serious amount View Post