This simple and so delicious chickpea pancake or fainá is popular in Argentina and Uruguay but originated in the Liguria region of Italy.
This simple and so delicious chickpea pancake or fainá is popular in Argentina and Uruguay but originated in the Liguria region of Italy.
Fugazzeta is a scrumptious cheese-stuffed pizza topped with caramelized onions from Argentina. This recipe features a sourdough crust with two types of flour and some filling variations, including spinach and nigella seeds.
Note: Please see Super Peel demonstration videos. The pizza peel is standard equipment among pizza makers everywhere. You need one to move your homemade pizza from counter to oven. Yet an ordinary peel requires some skill to accomplish this without making a mess of your masterpiece. It’s Super Peel to the rescue! The Super Peel …
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A couple years ago I talked about my experience with baking bread in an outdoor grill. One solution to baking yourself out of your own home during the hot summer months. Recently, Breadtopia reader Marianne Preston posted a photo of her success using a Big Green Egg to accomplish the same thing. Since the bread …
Chilean marraquetas are crusty on the outside and soft and tender on the inside. They are shaped into four segments, so you might eat half with the traditional filling of mashed avocado and a pinch of salt. Later in the day, the other half will call out to be enjoyed with cheese and quince jelly alongside a hot cup of tea. Finally at dinnertime, choripán, a grilled sausage sandwich perhaps with Argentinian chimichurri, may start to look really appetizing. Suddenly you’ve had marraquetas at every meal!
Extra cloth for the Composite Super Peel Pro (not the wood Super Peel).
Naturally leavened panettone is an epic adventure in baking, worth mastering and repeating even outside the holiday season. With this recipe’s clear instructions and well-tested strategies, you can enjoy the airy soft crumb and scrumptious fruity flavors of homemade panettone.
Make this picture-perfect chocolate hazelnut babka with hints of orange and amazing texture. This award-winning recipe has a silky enriched dough, gobs of Nutella or homemade chocolate-hazelnut spread, chopped hazelnuts inside and out, and a beautiful twisted presentation.
Homemade gnocchi are pillowy soft and they showcase the flavor of potatoes in a fun dumpling-pasta format. Try them with our tasty garlic scape pesto recipe or any sauce of your choosing, including simple butter and herbs. This recipe serves six or more so feel free to freeze some of the uncooked gnocchi and the extra pesto.
Uuni Now Available in Our Store Here’s something exciting for the gazillion people who love wood fired pizza. Pizza enthusiast and inventor, Kristian Tapaninaho (right), has invented a light weight portable wood fired oven named Uuni, designed to replicate world class pizza at home. Only this one will set you back a mere few hundred …
And then the one old guy said to the other, “You know, we haven’t given anything away on the site for a while.” And the second old guy said, “Yeah, that’s true.” First guy: “Maybe we should give away a pizza oven.” Second guy: “Yeah, let’s do that.”
My fascination with Poilâne bread began over 10 years ago with a publication in Smithsonian magazine on the venerable bakery. …Denyce and I visited their Elizabeth Street London location on our recent travels around the UK. I realize it’s sacrilege to speak disparagingly about Poilâne bread, but I’m still not getting what the fuss is about.
You can make this basic all purpose flour sourdough bread recipe into beautiful crusty artisan-style bread or a soft and tender sandwich bread. You can choose either a 1-day process baking in the evening or an overnight refrigeration of the dough for a morning bake. It’s simple, easy to follow, and the results are delicious.
Stenciling bread is a fun way to add a decorative finishing touch to your bread masterpieces. In this post we detail various tips, tricks and ingredients you can use to make your stencils come out clearer and with nice color and contrast.
Our original contribution to the no-knead bread revolution: substitute live sourdough starter for instant yeast to create the ultimate no knead artisan bread loaf.
Top Reasons Why Bakers Everywhere Use FibraMent baking stones: The FibraMent line of baking stones were developed by Illinios entrepreneur Mark O’Toole to meet the needs of professional bakers. Prior to FibraMent, bakers options were limited to ceramic and clay products that baked unevenly and cracked easily. FibraMent has become an industry standard for the …
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► Rick’s No Knead Variation
► Rick’s No Knead Rye
► Mark’s Caramelized Onion Loaf
► Rick’s Whole Wheat & Rolled Oats No Knead Recipe
Enjoy a bake-ation in Maine this Summer The 4th annual Kneading Conference in Skowhegan Maine promises to be a great time again this summer. Last summer’s event was a blast so Denyce and I are heading back. It’s July 29th & 30th followed by the Artisan Bread Fair on the 30th. Conference attendance requires registration …
Barbari bread is a traditional Persian flatbread with an extra crispy crust from a special glaze as well as tasty sesame and nigella seeds. Try this version with the added flavors of sourdough fermentation and khorasan wheat or turkey red whole grain flours.
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Glass bread or “pan de cristal” from Spain is a fun high hydration challenge for bakers and it rewards your courage with crusty, scrumptious loaves for perfect Catalonian tomato bread aka “pan con tomate,” as well as bruschetta, garlic bread, and any sandwich you want to be crispy and never soggy or leaky.
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