Category Archives: Bread

Pesto Pizza in 30 Minutes

A few weeks back, we made a delicious pizza from scratch, read the post here.   The extra dough was put into the freezer for another day… well that delicious day has arrived! In the morning, before work, I took the dough out of the freezer and put it in the refrigerator.  When I got home, [...]
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Pantry Pizza Pie

Making pizza from scratch may seem intimidating, but its really very easy, and a lot of fun too. You just need to plan ahead a bit so you have enough time for the dough to rise. It also helps to have a pizza peel and a baking stone. The peel will allow you to make [...]
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Honey Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf

Bread is the perfect thing to make when you’re going to be around the house for the day. Today was one of those days, stormy and humid outside, trying to stay cool inside, in just a few hours, and with minimal effort, I had a fresh loaf of bread. Honey Whole-Wheat Loaf 12 ounces* bread [...]
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Pantry Dinner Sandwich

A great satisfying lunch or lite dinner: 1/4 to 1/2 ripe avocado Tempeh bacon (our favorite tempeh product) 2 T Hummus Tomato, maybe lettuce, or even sliced cucumber On toasted sourdough salt and freshly ground pepper. One trick I learned from making bagels on Long Island on Sundays, is that when you make a sandwich, [...]
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The Demise of the Stiff Levain Starter

Day 6: After a slight mishap on Day 3, (in which “I poured the water from a gallon pitcher into a tiny tablespoon right over the bowl and too much poured out and got into the dough“), my 3rd attempt at making a sourdough starter using the yeast lying dormant in our apartment has failed. [...]
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