Remember Quarantine Bread, the simple and basic “No-knead” bread? Ingredients are stirred up in a bowl, covered with plastic wrap and a towel and thus started in its first rise the night before it’s flipped onto a floured mat in the morning, gently kneaded a few times to shape it, popped into a parchment-lined Dutch … More Whole Wheat Quarantine Bread, Sugarless Raspberry Jelly for a Birthday
One of my mahjongg ladies gave me a small pumpkin from her garden awhile back. I roasted, pureed and froze it to bake things like this: Pumpkin Spice Bread with Semisweet Chocolate Chips and Cinnamon Red Hots. As always with my fruit breads, I use half whole wheat and half all-purpose flours. It’s easy, no … More Pumpkin Spice Bread with Choc Chips, Cinnamon Red Hots w/My Recipe
A neighbor grew up with a version of this cinnamon and walnut bread with Red Hots, but a piece she gave me to taste was very dry and I decided to have a go using my own base recipe for quick breads. I added a whole 5.5 ounce package of Red Hots, which was too … More Two Cinnamon Walnut Breads: One with Red Hots, One Without
I was gifted with a can of pumpkin to make pumpkin bread. First I soaked raisins overnight in fresh orange juice to nicely plump them. Then I tried to grate crystalized ginger but it made a gooey mess and clump so let’s hear it for the French knife and chop, chop. The recipe is typical … More Pumpkin Crystalized Ginger & Orange Raisin Bread
I wanted a loaf of sandwich-size bread instead of round loaf and to use the quarantine bread method, that is, the make-dough-at-night-knead-lightly-in-morning-raise-in-pan-bake-in-cold-oven-to-start method. After the dough rose in the morning in the pan, I covered the pan with foil, put it in the cold oven, set the oven to 400 degrees (instead of 425 in … More Quarantine Bread in Glass Bread Pan
When I get a brainstorm about trying a new baked quick bread, well … here’s the result. Not long ago I experimented with canned pumpkin and a packet of Fresh Gourmet Honey Roasted Walnut Pieces*, made a Pumpkin Rum Raisin Honey Walnut bread, posted about it on my Instagram** and said I’d put the recipe … More New! Maple Date Honey Pecan Bread with My Recipe, and a Note about My Pumpkin Rum Raisin Honey Walnut Bread
When I was 11 years old, I won two blue ribbons at the State Fair in Puyallup, Washington, which I’d entered for 4-H projects. One blue ribbon was for perfect corn meal muffins and the other for an orange and coconut bread. Those two entries gave me the title of Prize-Winning Baker and today, after … More Orange and Toasted Coconut Bread
I was given a big handful of organic (i.e., grown in the family garden with no killer fertilizer) marionberries a few days ago while I was house and dogsitting. While I love the flavor of these berries, I do not love their big seeds so I saved them for a little baking project. Today I … More New! Seasonal Lemon & Marionberry Butter Cookies
Last week on sale at a grocery store, I bought three one-pound bowls of fresh fruit, one of which was pineapple. I ate the melons from two bowls and decided to roast and caramelize the pineapple chunks, some of which were used in a Moroccan-spiced couscous, steamed broccoli, caramelized red bell, onion and pine nut … More New! Roasted Pineapple & Orange Bread with My Recipe & Idea for a Pretty Salad
I made a trip to Lynnwood last week via bus for a couple things that I expected to find at J.D.’s Market, specifically bourma and fresh halwa because it’s Ramadan and they’re typically available during the fasting month. No such luck, but I did pick up a jar of Ariana Sumac, a seasoning widely used … More Sesame and Sumac Naan
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