bread
The Chef Mavens Homemade Pesto Focaccia Bread Recipe
I have continued with baking up a storm in hopes to match the storm outside my windows in New York. I decided to take my pizza dough recipe and turn it into a wonderful pesto foccacia bread with a few shallots baked on top along with a few sprinkles of crushed red pepper to spice it up just a bit.
There are many variations of course that you can create the right focaccia just for you and some of those suggestions are listed below.
To make this delectable side bread, it's easier that saying pizza pie! Read the rest of this entry »
How to Make a Homemade Multigrain Bread Recipe
I have been wanting to make a multi-grain loaf of bread for sometime without using those pre-made mixes available to us in our grocery stores, simply feeling that making it from scratch at home had to be even more wholesome.
This bread recipe can be made in a sturdy mixer like a kitchen-aid stand mixer or in your bread machine, just be sure to follow your bread machine's preferred method of yeast as the first or last ingredient to be added to your bread machine. This makes a large 1 and a half pound loaf. I have made this loaf using both methods with success.
Total time from start to finish including time for the bread to rise and bake is 4-6 hours. But there is very little actual 'work' that you do, most of the time is for allow the bread to rise - really! Read the rest of this entry »