Entries tagged with 'bread'
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In our house, cocktail rye was typically served as the base for chopped chicken livers or cream cheese, always served open-faced, kind of like the untoasted rye version of crostini. The smaller size of the loaf always made it seem fancier to me.
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Since I went vegan, I've had at least a half dozen people look at me while eating toast, a roll, or a sandwich and say, "Wait a minute, you can eat bread?" It seems to surprise a lot of people, but many breads and baked goods are vegan-friendly. Here's a look at the dos and don'ts of browsing the baked goods section as a vegan.
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Yes, bacon. The universal cheater food that makes any dish an instant hit. But it's not like I'm throwing bacon around willy-nilly. This is bacon bread. Or, more appropriately, Bacon!!! Bread. Bacon wasn't enough, though. I wanted just a little more. Enter maple.
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Since we've been doing a lot of
bread baking around here, and some of the books in our Knead the Book series will be using technical terms, it seems prudent to provide a
cheat sheet of the more common technical terms we're likely to run across. It should help make reading bread books just a little easier.
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Christmas is over. You've stuffed yourself with cookies. You're thinking that you'll start eating healthier in the new year. But ... but. There are Christmas leftovers to finish first! Maybe a roast, maybe a ham. A sandwich would be nice. Those leftovers deserve homemade bread. This makes a nice sandwich bread, and it couldn't possibly be easier (as long as you have a bread machine).
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We have all had the experience of getting ready to head out to the grocery store and suddenly noticing the bunch of bananas sitting on the counter that has gone brown and wrinkly. Those bananas may not work as a breakfast you toss into a bag before you run out the door, but they have reached the perfect stage to go into banana bread.
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I saw a tree-shaped cake pan at the grocery store and, naturally, thought it'd be pretty cool for baking bread. Then I figured I could make a pull-apart loaf into a free-form tree shape instead.
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I recently picked up a pullman loaf pan. If you're not familiar with it, a pullman pan (also known as a pain de mie pan) has a lid. Rather than having the flared sides of a typical bread pan, this one has straighter sides. Does everyone need a pullman pan? Probably not. But if you want this type of bread, having the right pan sure works a heck of a lot better than more, er, creative methods.
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Ah, bread. From slim, airy baguettes to nutty whole grain rounds, there is a style to fit every taste and occasion. No list of bakeries in San Francisco would be complete without Acme, Tartine, a Mexican bakery, a few baking cooperatives, and some old-school Italian-American purveyors.
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In the vast world of Jewish cuisine, Los Angeles holds its own pretty darn well, with plenty of kosher (and kosher-style) delis. Baking your own challah is all well and good, but sometimes you need a quick fix. From richly eggy to crisp water-style to a few novelty options, just in time for the High Holidays, we've got you covered with these five loaves.
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