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Saturday, April 29, 2006 I'll admit this bread is not as photogenic as the Pugliese, but that's only because I ignored Rose's ...

Saturday, April 29, 2006 I made an Italian feast for eight people today--a feast that required two different loaves of bread; I'll giv...

Saturday, April 22, 2006 There are four recipes in The Bread Bible that scare me: sourdough (because you have to make a starter that cou...

Monday, April 17, 2006 I know that I've become bread-crazed when the first thing I did when I got home from the airport--before even u...

Sunday, April 9, 2006 Why have I never made popovers before? I always thought they were hard, but they're not at all. They behaved e...

Sunday, April 9, 2006 I'm making a birthday dinner for Sarah. I told her I wanted to make popovers and I'd also make some matzoh...

April 5, 2006 This morning I took the some flaxseed bread out of the freezer for my morning toast, and realized it was the last piece of ...

Sunday, April 2, 2004 Some of the breads have ended up being dinner because we ate enough of them so that it seemed pretty piggish to eat ...

April 1, 2006 Fougasse is the French version of focaccia, and, if I'd realized that before I made it, I would have realized I should h...

Sunday, March 26, 2006 This flaxseed bread is another one that I probably wouldn't have chosen to make if I hadn't decided to wor...

Saturday, March 25, 2006 One of my favorite bakeries is Turtle Bread Bakery http://www.turtlebread.com , and one of their best breads is o...

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 I was very excited to make my first bread using my brand new MyWeigh scale. At last I could have precision meas...

Sunday, March 19, 2006 I had my doubts about this banana bread that isn't really a banana bread. It's a yeast bread with only ...

Saturday, March 18, 2006 A few days ago, I was talking to my neighbor Fred about my bread-baking project. He was completely uninterested,...

March 17, 2006 It's St. Patrick's Day, so of course the bread du jour is Irish Soda Bread. This particular bread is Royal Irish. ...

Sunday, March 12, 2006 March in Minnesota is a lot plainer and colder than March in St. John. But never mind, I can turn the oven on with...

March 4, 2006 We spent last week in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. It was gorgeous and sunny, but this is the cooking channel, not the tr...

February 26, 2006 I'm feeling like a real baker now that I've started buying expensive baking accoutrements over the in...

Monday, February 20, 2006 I love Rose Levy Beranbaum! The focaccia disaster has moved to the dark recesses of my memory and every bread I...

February 18, 2006 I thought bread baking would be a cheap hobby. What do you need, after all? A little flour, a little yeast. But, no...