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Monthly recap of the fantastic breads by the Bread Baking Babes
I should say they toast some oats but that’s not nearly as much fun…. And we are all looking for fun in 2021 ! I fear it may be awhile, but there is hope on the horizon. In the meantime we have hearty and heart-healthy Toasted Oats Bread to keep us going. The oats are … Continue reading…
St. Lucia Buns Saffron Buns Lussekatter So many names for this festive bread. I remember hearing about Sweden’s St. Lucia Day when I was in child and seeing the pictures of a young girl in a long white dress with a wreath of burning candles on her head. Right – a child wearing burning candles … Continue reading…
Focaccine Little focaccia. Like spaghettini is little spaghetti. And you thought foreign languages were hard…… Baking these little gems isn’t hard either. That was the general consensus of the Bread Baking Babes this month. According to Elle, of Feeding My Enthusiasms, and our host kitchen for this month, focaccine are small versions of focaccia that are … Continue reading…
Well…. this one just wrote itself: Bread baking Babes beat the blues by baking beautiful, breath-taking, beefy, bierocks. (I was looking for more but ran out of time – sunshiny day and all.) In another life I lived in Minneapolis. We had Milda’s Cafe which was famous for Cornish pasties (rhymes with nasty). My internet … Continue reading…
This is the first time in awhile that I haven’t been able to say or do something creative with the bread of the month. I’m flattened…. However, the Babes managed to go over-the-top with creativity with this fluffy, Indian flat bread. That was not an oxymoron. It’s a fluffy flat bread. Aparna, of My Diverse … Continue reading…
They slash; they cut; they slit; they SCORE! Elizabeth, of blog from OUR kitchen and the host kitchen for this month, decided to take the monthly baking challenge in a different direction. It wasn’t a baking challenge. It was a slashing challenge. Everyone got to make their own recipe for the bread and then practice … Continue reading…
Birotes Salados, to be specific. Google tells me that translates as ‘salty rods’. The Babes tell me that it’s a Mexican sourdough roll. I thought about it…. and decided not to make one of the many comments passing through my mind about travel restrictions and walls and borders and such. I have a rather dark … Continue reading…
