Piadina or piada is an ancient Italian flatbread made with just a few ingredients: flour, water or milk, olive oil or lard, salt, and sometimes baking soda. This recipe adds sourdough starter to the mix to add the flavors of fermented flour and water, and the option to ferment the entire dough. Piadinas are so delicious and versatile; you can try this recipe with different flour varieties and serve the piadinas with savory or sweet fillings.
Tsoureki is a braided Greek holiday bread. It has orange zest along with mastic and mahleb, which impart flavors of cherry, almond, and pine. It’s so tasty, and this variation uses whole grain flour for more fiber and nutrients. You can enjoy it any time of year for a soft, flavorful, and fiber-full bread that fills your home with amazing aromas.
This whole grain recipe for Turkish simit incorporates golden khorasan and hard white wheats for extra flavor and nutrition. The twisted sesame-coated crust is full of texture and has a slight sweetness from grape molasses. Enjoy simit with tea and a savory Mediterranean breakfast or drizzle the simit with honey for a sweet afternoon treat.
More than you need to know about keeping your sourdough starter happy, healthy, and ready to bake with.
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 …
This spelt bread recipe is as delicious and easy to make as it is nutritious. So when the inspiration strikes to get virtuous with your eating habits without sacrificing sensory pleasure, give this one a whirl.
Hi Everyone, Yesterday, the winners of Saveur’s best food blog awards were announced and Food Wishes took top honors in the category of most innovative video content. I’ve long been an admirer of Chef John, Food Wishes creator and video host. He has a great style and the quality of his productions is always top …
This Sicilian no knead bread recipe holds a solid place on my short list of favorite no knead recipes.
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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 …
These sourdough leavened olive baguettes are kind of spectacular. They have a touch of rye flour and so much crispy golden crust to enjoy with the bursts of olive flavor. The airy crumb can hold plenty of olive oil, and the baguettes also pair well with soft cheeses like ricotta and burrata, or shavings of hard cheese like pecorino romano and grana padano.
This 100% whole grain bread has a light maple sweetness along with tasty oat and wheat flavors and the rich complexity of natural sourdough leavening.
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.”
Sourdough bomboloni — aka deep fried donuts — sound decadent to the extreme, but actually they’re quite delicate in flavor and texture.
Dinner rolls made with whole grain wheat and mashed potatoes are soft and flavorful. Incorporate them into your Thanksgiving prep or leftover use, or make them any time of year.
Birote Salado is a crusty delicious Mexican bread with a fascinating history that dates back to Napoleon and a unqiue sourdough starter fed with beer, lime juice, egg and more.
There is an increasing body of evidence that (aside from Celiac disease) many of the health issues related to eating wheat and gluten are more specifically related to the consumption of modern wheat processed via a roller mill into white flour and baked through a very rapid, mechanized process utilizing commercial yeast.
My latest bread obsession involves trying to convert normally all white flour recipes to healthy and tasty whole grain versions while maintaining the light and soft texture typical of the originals. This challah recipe does the trick for me.
IMPORTANT: The video below shows quick and easy setup instructions for your new Mockmill. If you don’t follow the procedure in there, you will not get good milling results. And if you do, you will get GREAT milling results.
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