Pros: Yum! Cons: There were a number of recipes I couldn’t try Rating: 4 out of 5 (provisional) I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review. Bread Revolution: World-Class Baking with Sprouted and…
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On Reviewing Cookbooks
Any time I review a cookbook I make recipes from it first. You can have a gorgeous cookbook written by a famous chef that’s full of errors, and you can have some ugly little book written by someone you’ve never…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: bread, cookbook, Cooking, Peter Reinhart, recipes, whole grain, whole milled flour
Review: “Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day,” Hertzberg and Francois
Pros: Delicious and easy Cons: Hard crust, shaggy look, doesn’t brown well Rating: 4 out of 5 NOTE: Review book provided by authors I’m a huge fan of Hertzberg and Francois’s original Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: baking, bread, cookbook, gluten-free, Jeff Hertzberg, recipes, Zoe Francois
Coffee and Bread
I’m out of coffee! Somehow I missed the fact that I didn’t have any more in the cupboard. *sob* No coffee today. 🙁 Well, at least I got another review written: Greg Patent’s A Baker’s Odyssey. Excellent bread! I think…
"A Baker’s Odyssey," Greg Patent
Pros: Amazing bread; wonderful variety of recipes from all over the world; DVD included Cons: One or two minor editing snafus; would have loved more photos! Rating: 5 out of 5 Review book courtesy of Wiley. As I mentioned…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: baking, bread, cookbooks, Cooking, Greg Patent, recipes, traditional
"Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day," Hertzberg & Francois
Pros: Amazing bread; very detailed instructions; incredibly easy Cons: Doesn’t work as well with whole grains Rating: 5 out of 5 Review book courtesy of St. Martin’s Press. Visit the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day website (includes errata…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: artisan bread, baking, bread, cookbooks, Cooking, Jeff Hertzberg, recipes, Zoe Francois
DONE!
We have a printer box full of bread and then some. The whole wheat oatmeal rolls are delicious, and the Kachauri is so good it’s taking a supreme act of will to avoid hoarding it for ourselves. We’re resting our…
Corniness
The Cheese Sambouseks came out deLIGHTfully delicious. Now we’re making a quadruple batch of corn muffins (with whole kernels and chipotle cheddar), which actually only works out to 24 muffins since this recipe makes small batches. We’re also baking batches…
Cheeeeeese… and split peas
Next we made Cheese Sambouseks, made from a batch of Kahk dough surrounding a cheese-and-egg filling (we decided to use a rather untraditional mix of chevre and maple-smoked cheddar). Those are currently in the oven. We’ve also made a batch…
It has begun!
As previously mentioned, my husband and I are baking bread for 25 people for a friend’s Twelfth Night feast. Last night we made doughs from the ‘Artisan bread in 5 minutes a day’ book for a plain artisan loaf and…