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Food: A Simple Soup and Bread Dinner

I love soup. I love soup and bread. I can make bread. now I want soup to go with it. minestrone, chicken noodle, beef & barley, italian wedding, tomato, roasted red pepper and tomato, butternut squash, vegetable, miso, tom-yum, chili, and french onion – the feature of this post. My french onion soup may or [...]
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Food: Dutch Oven Baked Honey Bread

Continuing the bread obsession I’ve been having, see the 1st post for the basic recipe and my 2nd post for the sesame version, I decided I wanted to make a lightly sweetened honey bread using the same dutch oven technique to get that delicious chewy crust. In addition to the flour (20 oz by weight), [...]
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Food: Dutch Oven Baked Sesame Bread

A variation I’ve been wanting to try since baking the first loaf from Ratio is a sesame bread. I used the same basic recipe, but then coated the proofed dough with water and covered it with untoasted sesame seeds (which I got for a great price at Buon Italia in chelsea market). I pre-heated my [...]
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Food: Dutch Oven Baked Bread

I love the sourdough bread boule from Panera bread. It has a super crispy crust and a soft consistent interior. In my previous attempts at baking, I never got quite the same consistency, usually ending up with a loaf that had a good soft interior, but an average exteior. I read about professional ovens and [...]
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Cookies and Icing

Cookies and christmastime seem to go together. People like cookies, guests like cookies, santa likes cookies – making this time of year the best time to whip out your go-to cookie recipes. While snowboarding this past weekend, the group I went with were fortunate enough to have two highly motivated cooks (neither was me, btw) [...]
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Recipe: Pretzel Rolls

Pretzel Rolls Adapted from Bon Appetit January 1994 2 3/4 cups bread flour (420 gms) – I use King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour 1 envelope quick-rising yeast 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon of celery seed or powder 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (about) hot water (125°F to 130°F) Cornmeal 8 cups water [...]
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