BREAD baking

[uk elephant]

I was given a great channukah present by my grandma (Trek and Duck's mom): the Tassajra (not sure about spelling) bread book! Soooooo many delicious looking recipies. I've been baking bread every week since, and it turns out great every time. Last night I tried the Banana Sandwich Bread recipie. Delicious!!! Kind of like Challah, but with mashed banana and cinnamon added. Great for my toast in the morning, and I'm looking forward to using a couple of slices for making French Toast at the week-end. Mmmmm!

[Susan Otcenas]

Last night I made the pumpernickel recipe recently published on ABin5's blog. It wasn't bad, but it didn't rock my world. I've not made the recipe out of the book yet. Interestingly the one on the blog does not have cocoa and espresso it in as the original one does. But the blog version uses a much smaller amount of white flour, so I wanted to try that one.

I think I may try the blog version again, but this time add in the cocoa and espresso of the original.

Anyone else made an ABin5 pumpernickel?

Susan

[NoNo]

Can't say anything about the pumpernickel, but I did try the fougasse stuffed with roasted red pepper. YUM!

[tulip]

I've got two loaves rising now, behind my woodstove--the warmest part of my house. One is for my new neighbor and one is for me. I am hungry already!

[GLC1968]

behind my woodstove--the warmest part of my house.

That's where I rise my dough when the woodstove is in use. If not, it goes into my husband's office and sits on the servers.

[Susan Otcenas]

Can't say anything about the pumpernickel, but I did try the fougasse stuffed with roasted red pepper. YUM!

That looks amazing.

So many recipes, so little time...

[Susan Otcenas]

I've made several more recipes from the Artisan Bread in 5 and the follow-up Healthy Bread in 5.

From the original book - the granola recipe is awesome! I've made it twice now, and can safely say it's some of the best granola I've ever eaten. I'll be making the granola bread recipe soon.

From the HBin5 book, I made the Vollkornbrot recipe a week ago. Really yummy. It uses wheat berries and rye flakes in the dough. Very hearty bread. Yummy with some of my homemade plum jam on it!

I've just pulled 2 loaves of the Pain au Potiron out of the oven. (Peppery Pumpkin with Olive Oil Loaf). I used a sugar pumpkin that GLC gave me from her garden (I'd been meaning to make pumpkin chutney, but never got around to it!) I can hardly wait until it cools down. I made enough dough for 8 loaves, so I sure hope I like it. (GLC, want a loaf??)

Susan

[GLC1968]

I've made several more recipes from the Artisan Bread in 5 and the follow-up Healthy Bread in 5.

From the original book - the granola recipe is awesome! I've made it twice now, and can safely say it's some of the best granola I've ever eaten. I'll be making the granola bread recipe soon.

From the HBin5 book, I made the Vollkornbrot recipe a week ago. Really yummy. It uses wheat berries and rye flakes in the dough. Very hearty bread. Yummy with some of my homemade plum jam on it!

I've just pulled 2 loaves of the Pain au Potiron out of the oven. (Peppery Pumpkin with Olive Oil Loaf). I used a sugar pumpkin that GLC gave me from her garden (I'd been meaning to make pumpkin chutney, but never got around to it!) I can hardly wait until it cools down. I made enough dough for 8 loaves, so I sure hope I like it. (GLC, want a loaf??)

Susan

Sure! It sounds wonderful!

And I can provide the pumpkins if you still want to do chutney. I think I've got 5 or 6 still in our pantry. Maybe a little chutney to have with the Vollkornbrot that I'm going to make this week?

[Susan Otcenas]

It WAS wonderful. Jeff & I demolished an entire 1 lb loaf in a flash. SO much for this week's weight loss efforts.... I think the only thing I'd change would be to dice up the pumpkin smaller next time. I felt like I was making small pieces, but now that I've baked some, I think smaller would be better.

Angela wants a loaf too, so I'll bake some up a few more loaves in the next day or so.

(Pumpkin chutney making party Sunday afternoon?? )

Susan