Man cannot live by bread alone. Images and recipes of one of the great simple pleasures in life – Food and drink. Pizzas, stew, wine and beer. Bread and fruit…and lots of lemons :)
Cranberry Walnut Bread is one of my favorites. It makes an excellent breakfast bread, toasted on not. Certainly this is a wet dough, and heavy, which makes it slow to rise. You have to be patient and give it enough time to lift, or you’ll end up with a flat loaf. This recipe is ~ […]
The flour How to make better pizza? First and foremost use Italian Flour. No question, of all the things you can do to make improve your pizza, Antico Molino Caputo Tipo 00 flour will make the difference. Antico Molino Caputo makes the world’s best pizza flour, hands down. The only thing else you could do to make your pizza
A Ciabatta Bread Recipe that consists of 2 stages. A well developed Poolish, and a long and slowly proofed dough. Make a “Poolish” first Ingredients – Grams Bread Flour 100 Water 100 Dry Yeast 2 Mix the ingredients and let it ferment for at least 2 hours. I left this one overnight, to develop
I always wanted to make Homemade Pasta. I never got around to getting a pasta machine. Sure, you can roll and cut by hand, but to make good homemade pasta you need to roll the dough to the right thickness consistently. Today was Father’s Day. I was presented an Imperia Homemade Pasta Machine in honor of
Pugliese Bread is a simple white loaf with an open crumb and a chewy crust. A yeasted biga is a basis for this bread. The key to the open crumb is hydration of > 70%. This bread gets its name from the region of Puglia on the south-eastern tip of Italy. This bread is great
Simple Grilled Lamb chops were on the menu today. Lamb has always been the least popular of all red meats in North America. Most people prefer beef, pork and veal over lamb, mainly because availability and tradition. After living in Europe and the Middle East for many years, I came to realize the taste of