Entries tagged with 'bread'
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Artisan breads are typically worth every penny of their premium price, but what about their gadget counterparts?
The Breville Custom Loaf ($299.99*,
breville.com) is about as fancy a breadmaker as I've come across, making it an exciting purchase for a carbo-lover like myself. But is it worth the splurge?
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Rye Romano. Crostini Ricci. Bao Wow. Pumpernickelas Cage. Ever think about what celebrities would look like if they changed their names to bread-inspired puns? Probably not, but
Bread People is here to show you. [via
Buzzfeed]
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There may be enough starch at the Thanksgiving table once you have stuffing and mashed potatoes. But really, who stops at
enough? Here are some bready bites to complement your Thanksgiving spread.
What breads do you like to serve on Thanksgiving? Pull-apart rolls? Crescents? Cornbread? Popovers?
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There's many ways to deal with day-old bread. Grind it into bread crumbs for your mac and cheese, soak it in custard and bourbon for bread pudding, stuff your turkey with it, or if all else fails, just do what I do and use it up in your homemade
dog food. But right now—early fall—is about the best time of the year to make
panzanella. The classic
Northern Italian salad of day-old bread and tomatoes is best at this time of year, when the last tomatoes of the summer have ripened beyond capacity and are splitting open with excess juice.
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We love our toast. We like toast with jam, a drizzle of honey, smeared with Nutella, maybe just a smidgen of butter melting into oblivion. We also like it with cheese, with apricot preserves, for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, and for a midnight snack. But our question to you is,
how well-done do you like your toast? Do you like it pale, maybe with the slightest hint of gold, or sunburnt to a deep caramel finish?
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True, making breadcrumbs from scratch is nothing fancier than pulverizing, toasting, and maybe seasoning old bread. The real charm of the homemade stuff:
A spare half a loaf could inspire new dinner ideas on the spot—if you know how to use it. Read on for tips on custom-making crumbs to suit your meatloaf, pan-fried cutlets, baked chicken fingers, mac and cheeses, and other meals.
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When Mary Capone launched a line of gluten-free mixes,
Bella Gluten-Free, and offered samples at
Cayenne Kitchen, my local kitchen store in Longmont, Colorado, of course I had to try all of the samples. It was quite a surprise.
In a blind taste test, I doubt anyone would be able to pick out the multigrain sandwich bread as gluten free. And not only was it indistinguishable from yeast bread, it was actually tasty all by itself.
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With St. Patrick's Day around the corner, this week's
Mixed Review, is on the official
Guinness Bread Mix. Beer bread mixes are usually pretty simple to throw together, but this one was a bit more involved. It required additions of butter, milk, beer, molasses, and (optional) raisins. But if you aren't feeling the mix, try this from-scratch recipe for
Plum Biercake instead.
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Japanese performance artist Toastie created the character Baguette Bardot as an homage to Brigitte Bardot, if she sang in Japanese and had baguettes-for-arms. In this video, she bakes a baby made of bread with the help of three dancing bakers. Watch the video after the jump....
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"You could give me dog-shit wheat, and I could still make it taste great." —Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] Just as tomatoes have spent the last few hundred years getting the flavor slowly sucked out of them, in favor of more convenient attributes like uniformity in size and color and resistance to the rigors of transcontinental shipping, wheat has undergone a similar process. Unlike tomatoes, which, discounting any Native American influence, have been bred for a mere few hundred years, wheat, a staple grain since the earliest civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, has had a 10,000-year breeding program. Modern wheat is designed for high yields, and to produce flours with consistently high protein contents. In the meantime,...
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