I found some fun quotes on bread at my favorite quote blog: Notable Quotes about Bread. Check out the quotes. There are lots of other excellent quotes on this site. It’s one I’ve bookmarked for future reference.
Category Archives: Breads
Cornbread: variations on a theme
There are two ways to eat cornbread. You can go spicy with different chiles or peppers in the cornbread. Or you can go sweet and make cornbread that you eat with butter and honey or jam.
I remember eating cornbread with butter and maple syrup when I was a little girl. It was never my favorite, so as an adult, I set out to make cornbread that I could feel enthusiastic about.
Years ago, I learned the trick of adding an entire can of corn to the recipe. That makes wonderful cornbread and is definitely worth a try. And you can actually go in the spicy direction OR the sweet direction and it still works.
Grilled Summer Sourdough Sandwiches
These sandwiches are quick, easy, and scrumptious. As with so many things I make, there can be great variations, depending on what I have in my fridge on a given day.
Filed under Breads, methods, photos, recipes, Vegetarian/vegetarian-friendly
Homemade Flour Tortillas
I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m always always trying to figure out how to make things MYSELF. Commercially made tortillas are usually loaded with bad fats and sodium–things I try to avoid. They also seem unreasonably expensive considering how relatively INexpensive their ingredients are.
I love learning how to make things and do things myself, so it made sense to me to try to find a homemade alternative to store-bought tortillas. (I recall that all of my kids had very strong I-can-do-it-mySELF phases as they were growing up, so I guess that should tell me something!)
This is a very simple recipe. It takes a little time, but after making these tortillas a few times, I’ve decided that the time it takes is worth it. It also has made sense in our family to make several batches of tortillas all at once that I subsequently freeze to use later.
Filed under Breads, Ethnic, Resourceful cooking
One of Mom’s perfect recipes: Bran muffins
Bringing another favorite out of retirement here….these bran muffins are the PERFECT accompaniment to all the soups and chilis that we’re eating during this very, very snowy month of February.
This is my mom’s bran muffin recipe. It is perfect. It does not require raisins, or cranberries, or–saints preserve us–chocolate chips. You can make this on the weekend, and keep a huge bowl of it in your fridge for up to six weeks (!), making a pan at a time as needed. With my family of four (two being under 9) a big bowl of muffin mix will last us for several breakfasts. This week, with an extra 15-yr.-old nephew in the mix, we’ll make it through about 2.6 breakfasts. My mother used to serve bran muffins with any of her soups, especially on Sunday afternoons after church. My favorite was split pea with ham (which is also one of the world’s perfect recipes, and I’ll post that sometime soon, since I mentioned it.)
So here’s the recipe: Continue reading
Filed under Breads, Breakfast, Family Heirloom Recipes, recipes, remembering
Poppy seed bread: a little slice of heaven!
I hadn’t had any of this easy poppy seed bread in decades, so I called my Mom and asked her to root out the recipe for me. She did, so I made some with my 11-year-old a few days ago. When I cut the first “Quality Control” slice and bit into it, suddenly, there I was, 12 years old, standing in my mother’s kitchen, sneaking a slice of my childhood. Your mileage may vary, since you may not have grown up with this recipe, but I promise you it will be scrumptious. Continue reading
Filed under Breads, Kids in the kitchen, recipes, Uncategorized
Basic Homemade Bread
It has come to my attention that we’ve never posted a basic bread recipe, even though we talk about it all the time, and have posted other related things like breadsticks and pizza. This is clearly an oversight! So, for those of you looking for the low-down on how to make your own bread…. Continue reading
Filed under Breads, methods, recipes, Uncategorized, Vegetarian/vegetarian-friendly
Cuban Sandwiches
Even my picky eaters loved these Cuban sandwiches. I had seen pictures of them in magazines, and wanted to try them, and so I went nosing around online and found all sorts of recipes. It turns out they are a good way of using up leftover ham.
The key points that make a Cuban seem to be: a)good bread, preferably of a kind that can be flattened on a grill or in a panini-maker, b)the presence of both ham and sliced pork, c)cheese, d) mustard,e)pickles and f)the fact that you grill them. So if that’s all you need to get you going, stop reading and go make them sammiches! If you need a bit more salacious detail, keep reading…. Continue reading
Filed under Anchor Cooking, Breads, Ethnic, methods, recipes, Uncategorized
Dresden Weihnachtsstollen, or German Christmas Bread
I’m bringing this post out of retirement. There is barely enough time to make this tasty bread, so we need to start right now! Barb
My friend Tina grew up in Germany, and now lives here and goes to my church, so we sometimes get to sample her wonderful German cooking at potlucks. I asked her to share some German Christmas recipes with me, and here’s the first one. She gives the measurements in both metric and “our kind”. If you want to eat this for Christmas, think about making it soon, since it takes a few weeks to reach the point of readiness. Here it is: Dresden Weihnachtsstollen! Continue reading
Readers, I need your help!
Today, Sunday, is the last day to vote. If you haven’t already voted, please check out the recipe and instructions for sourdough and put your own vote in at Instructables.
Only two more days to vote for my Sourdough Instructable in the Earthjustice United States of Efficiency Contest on Instructables.com. Voting closes on the 17th of this month. Please go vote for me. Thanks to you wonderful readers, I’ve been in the top five entries. Please help me finish strong! Thanks so much!
If you’ll recall, a couple of weeks ago I encouraged all of you to visit Instructables.com and see my new Instructable on how to make sourdough bread.
Well, now I need you to go re-visit that Sourdough Bread Instructable and vote for me! You’ll need to sign in. If you haven’t already registered with Instructables, it’s free and doesn’t take much time at all to do. Once you’re registered, you have the privilege of voting. Poke around a bit on that site; there are some very fun, cool DIY things there.
The VOTE NOW button is at the top of the page, under the words, “Is this a winner?” I would appreciate it SOOOO much if you vote for me! We can only vote once on this.
Thanks ever so much,
Barb
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