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The Mother of all Sammiches

Instructions:

1. Make bread with diced sundried tomatoes, a generous pile of freshly grated, high-quality Italian parmesan, and a handful of rosemary leaves.

2. Cut bread into nice thick slices after it’s cooled for about 15 minutes.

3. Pile on sliced turkey, fresh organic lettuce from the farm, thick [...]

Banana Bread

Q: Did you make the best banana bread ever during the commercial break? A: I SURE DID

Life is never so good that it can’t be improved further with banana bread.

Olive bread

I haven't made this one in a while. It's a little labor-intensive – the dough takes some real working – but man is it worth it.

Cornbread…

…ain’t nothin’ wrong with that!

Lightly brushed with skim milk and dusted with cornmeal before baking.  Damn fine with turkey chili while watching the Seahawks get beaten up.  *sigh*…

Ahhh, bread (again)

I hadn’t made any in a couple of weeks, I think in part because it’s been so tumultuous here with all the work being done on the house, and strange people in and out all the time, and me exiled to the guest room while my bedroom gets ripped apart and rebuilt. It hasn’t [...]

Ugly bread and silly bread

Tonight I made the ugliest loaf of bread I’ve ever made.

I improvised the base recipe a little with a few tablespoons of shortening, and an egg. This did result in a softer, fluffier dough, but it also resulted in a big pouf-ball in the pan which collapsed when I opened the over door to [...]