Category Archives: Bread

HOLLA! Sweet Potato Challah

By Alexa | Published: January 14, 2010
Challah, the braided bread served on Shabbat and most holidays, is delicious, and typically made with many eggs.  We had vegan guests over for Shabbat last weekend, so eggs were out.   I had to learn how to make an eggless challah, and fast, so I turned to Joan Nathan, the Guru of Jewish cooking, [...]
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Invest a little time, make a lot of dough

By Matthew | Published: August 21, 2009
Making bread and pizza at home is all about planning. Once you’ve got the timing right, it requires very little active work.  I hadn’t made bread at home in over a month since we had been out of town, and well ya know,  summer… but when I saw artisanal multigrain loaves in the store selling [...]
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Making fresh, beautiful bread doing little more than watching and waiting

By Matthew | Published: December 16, 2008
I have a busy schedule. I would never have thought that I would be capable of baking an artisanal style crusty bread with minimal effort, and minimal ingredients, in the middle of the week,  but that’s exactly what I just did (I actually made two), and you can too.  On Monday night I decided [...]
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Rustic (and easy!) Dinner Rolls

By Matthew | Published: December 10, 2008
Sustainable Pantry played host to a dinner party on Saturday night, where we executed a menu from Eric Ripert’s blog aveceric.com as part of a dinner social contest.  We’ll be submitting a photo for the contest this week (wish us luck!).  You can read more about the contest here. One thing that wasn’t listed on [...]
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Sourdough from Scratch!

By Matthew | Published: November 25, 2008
If you’ve been following Sustainable Pantry you know that I have been trying to create my own sourdough starter for months now.   Thanks to persistence, comments from readers, and a few great resources I finally did it! (see previous post to find out how).  Last night I put that starter to work, and the [...]
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