Your focaccia bread dough is a blank canvas! Turn it into art with herb and vegetable decorations for a fun, family-friendly baking project. There have been so many pandemic food trends over this past year. Remember Dalgona coffee? Pancake cereal? (I opted for cookie cereal instead.) Sourdough? And the latest thing seems to be the TikTok ...
Easy Whole Wheat Pita Bread
If you want to start baking bread, these easy, forgiving whole wheat pita breads are a great place to start. They are the perfect accompaniment for all your Middle Eastern and Israeli-inspired meals. Baking bread has become a national pastime of sorts during this unsettling moment of shelter-in-place and social isolation. (Provided, of ...
How to Start Baking Sourdough Bread
Jumping on the sourdough bandwagon? Let me help. With so much extra time on our hands these days and a shortage of yeast at the grocery store, many people are trying to bake sourdough, or naturally leavened, bread for the first time. Working with a sourdough starter and using it to create crusty, artisanal loaves is a worthy and soothing ...
Easy Mashed Potato Bread
Leftover mashed potatoes? Turn them into an easy, soda-risen, mashed potato bread perfect for a weekend-after-Thanksgiving breakfast. It's the Friday after Thanksgiving. You have leftover mashed potatoes sitting in your fridge. Don’t try to deny it. I am sure that those mashed potatoes were absolutely delicious at your Thanksgiving dinner. I ...
Pumpkin Challah with Cinnamon Honey Butter
Saffron-colored pumpkin challah with sweet cinnamon honey butter will be the hit of your Rosh Hashanah celebration! Fall is pumpkin season and Rosh Hashanah is a fall holiday. So pumpkin dishes on a Rosh Hashanah menu is a no-brainer. Indeed, pumpkin is a traditional food for Rosh Hashanah, especially among Sephardic Jews, but not only ...
Orange Cardamom Braid with Orange Honey Compound Butter
Breakfast is a special occasion with this Orange Cardamom braided challah served with a sweet Orange Honey Compound Butter. Get your citrus fix before the season ends! As citrus season winds down, I am trying to get my fix of Meyer lemons, blood oranges and all my favorite sunny, wintertime Vitamin C powerhouses before they go away. Recently ...
Honey Whole Wheat Bread with Yogurt Butter
This post is sponsored by Stonyfield Organic, King Arthur Flour, and Levoons. As always, all opinions are my own. As the darkest days of the year descend, we turn inward seeking warmth and solace and filling our bellies with the most elemental of foods: stews, braises, and, of course, bread. Is there any food more comforting, more nourishing ...
How to Make Sourdough Bread at Home
On Valentine's Day this year, I had a special date. No, my husband did not take me out for a fancy dinner. Instead, my friend Gena and I went to a class at Bunny, the Microbakery, the latest venture from Food and Wine Best New Chef-winner Iliana Regan, to learn how to make bakery-style sourdough. It seems that Gena and I are part of a larger ...
Mashed Potato (Boxty) Bread
Come Friday, you will have leftover mashed potatoes sitting in your fridge. Don't try to deny it. I am sure that those mashed potatoes will be absolutely delicious at your Thanksgiving dinner. I hope that your guests will smother them in gravy and mix them with turkey and stuffing to get all that deliciousness in one insanely good bite. But come ...
Rosh Hashanah Recipes: Round Challah
As I mentioned earlier this week, the Jewish New Year holiday, Rosh Hashanah, is right around the corner. The holiday, which lasts two days, begins at sundown on September 13. Rosh Hashanah is a festive occasion, as most New Year celebrations tend to be. Many Jews will mark the occasion with a holiday dinner for friends and family. I explained ...