Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Sometimes inspiration comes in the strangest ways. For example, tonight we were going to have pizza for dinner. The plan was to use our standard homemade pizza dough recipe one with some homemade sauce that I had in the freezer and one garlic pizza. The dough was made at lunchtime and left to rise …
It is Memorial Day weekend and in addition to honoring our fallen heroes, we often have a cookout with the family to remember family members that we have lost. Since we started this project to live without store-bought breads, the bun situation has been pretty spotty. We have made these buns in the past and …
It’s funny where inspiration comes from. My mother shared a video of someone braiding bread in several different ways. It was interesting, who knew that you could braid bread into 10 different patterns? I didn’t. The video was in a different language and the subject of the video was obviously a professional bread maker because …
Sometimes you cannot finish all of the bread that you make before it starts to go bad. There are a few things that can be done with the bread once it becomes stale. One of my favorites is using it to make fresh homemade croutons. It’s a quick and easy way to get a couple …
I am officially old. I asked for silicone bread pans for Christmas and I squealed like a little girl when I opened them. These babies needed a test run, so imagine my delight when I spied three past-their-prime bananas that desperately needed to be dealt with. Bread pans + Bananas = Delicious banana nut bread!
Homemade dumplings are better than the boxed mix: Dumplings are pretty much necessary when I am making beef stew. Since we started cooking from scratch we don’t seem to have things like Bisquick in the house anymore. Really, what is Bisquick, anyway? I am pretty sure its nothing more than flour, salt, baking powder and …
Since we started our journey to make as much as we can at home and from scratch we have made quite a few different kinds of bread. We have neglected one of my favorite types of bread: the baguette. I had looked up some recipes early on, but they took days and I was …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any recipes to the blog due to a variety of factors, including lack of both time and motivation. You can thank my pager for this blog post. It kindly blasted me out of bed, just after I fell asleep. Now, two hours later, I’ve thrown in the …
Breakfast has been seriously lacking around here since we gave store bought bread products the ole heave ho. This weekend I had decided that my usual breakfast of yogurt, fruit and granola wasn’t going to cut it. I was about to set out on a 9 mile run and I wanted to return to a greasy bacon, egg …
When it comes to making pizza at home, you have quite a few options. There are frozen dough balls and precooked shells, those fresh-ish ones sold in the deli aisle, powdered mixes, “fresh” dough balls in the refrigerator section and even some pizza shops will sell you their dough. Buy, why go through all of …