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Naan. Owning a dairy goat means having a lot of dairy products on hand at all times.

Naan

A while back, I got a little carried away and made a gallon and a half of homemade yogurt at one time. We’ve been eating it every day in various different forms: with berry sauce, on cereal, as fruity frozen yogurt, and in my secret pancake recipe. Homemade Naan. I fully admit it – I’m obsessed with naan. Are you unfamiliar with the traditional Indian flatbread?

Well, first, know that it is awesome, a truly incontestable fact. That being settled, know, too, that it is actually not that hard to make! Challah (Baked in a Barbecue) It seems like every blog I’ve looked at in the last couple weeks has some sort of naturally dyed Easter egg/leg of lamb/matzoh cookie/pink deviled egg/cherry blossom/gardening/picnic/Peeps/rhubarb reference.

Challah (Baked in a Barbecue)

Ahh…Spring. I guess it’s finally that time of year. All I know is that our chickens are laying SO many eggs, and we’re having a hard time keeping up. The Corvallis Saturday Farmers’ Market starts up on April 14, and we’ll definitely be sending some of our excess eggs with my mom to sell, but for now, we’re forced to eat our entire egg supply (minus a few dozen that we’ve given away to friends and neighbors). Because of our overabundance of eggs, I’m trying to add at least a couple to almost every meal. Jalapeno Cornbread with Caramelized Onions. I've spent the entirety of this past week unpacking from my move up to North Hollywood, and I've done it all while having an annoying head cold that I thought I beat Thursday, but returned Friday morning with a stuffy vengeance.

Jalapeno Cornbread with Caramelized Onions

All of this laboring and illness made me crave something warm and cozy and comforting. I was planning on making some kind of veggie-egg bake, but Jeremy mentioned that he was craving savory cornbread yesterday, and I'd just recently re-seasoned my cast iron skillet using this handy guide, so I decided to try my hand at making a savory version of my other cornbread recipe.

I chopped up some sweet onion and slow-cooked it with some butter until it caramelized, then I stirred it into the batter along with some shredded cheddar cheese and diced jalapeno, poured it into the skillet, and popped it in the oven. It was...absolutely delicious. Ingredients: (1) 8.25 Ounce Can Creamed Corn. Beautiful Bread. The night Pastor Ryan arrived, he jumped right in, throwing together a bread dough not using a precise recipe (though I’ll provide it for you tomorrow), but ingredients put together according to ratios.

Beautiful Bread

It looked lovely and plump and perfect. Then he put it into…a dutch oven, of all things. Kielbasa Balls. Kielbasa Balls This is a New Year’s Eve staple for us.

Kielbasa Balls

It’s so simple, and so good. All you do is wrap small pieces of kielbasa in bread dough and bake it. The kielbasa juices spread throughout the bread dough, and the result is doughy and delicious and full of wonderful kielbasa flavor. They smell amazing coming out of the oven, and if the reaction of our New Year’s Eve guests is to be believed, they are slightly addicting. Kielbasa Balls Ingredients:1 loaf frozen bread dough, thawed 1 package pre-cooked kielbasaDirections:Cut the kielbasa into rounds, and cut the rounds in half so you have small half-circle pieces.

Brown Butter Soda Bread. Save to My Recipes Rosemary and black pepper make this bread anything but typical.

Brown Butter Soda Bread

Wedges are delicious with plenty of butter and your favorite preserves. 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper plus additional for topping 1 3/4 cups buttermilk 1 egg white, beaten to blend View Step-by-Step Directions Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 375°F.

Irish Soda Bread. We've freshened up the site a bit!

Irish Soda Bread

A new masthead above, and to your right you'll now find a column to hold a curated selection of seasonal and holiday ideas. This way, many of the most relevant posts are right up front! Now, on to the soda bread. Pretzel Rolls. Pretzel Rolls As soon as I tasted these pretzel rolls (warm out of the oven of course!)

Pretzel Rolls

, I was left wondering why in the world I had waited so long to make them. My friend Katie, who has given me lots of good recipes already, told me about these awhile ago, and yet I waited months before making them. Baking for the Masses. Finally after months of struggle, I managed to get the pretzel rolls that I dreamed of.

Baking for the Masses

For some reason, all this time, every attempt I made ended in failure, either because of the dough, or the shape that didn’t quite work for me, but most of the time… because I was a nub. There is not much story I can tell about this recipe, so I will get right into it. Activate your yeast, of course. Lukewarm water, sugar, yeast and wait for 5 minutes. Baked Pasta with Roasted Peppers and Zucchini & Giveaway. One of my raves about living in regional areas – especially a foodie haven like Orange - is the ease of getting cheap pub food.

Baked Pasta with Roasted Peppers and Zucchini & Giveaway

OMG, I didn’t declare that out loud did I? Forgive me if I sound like a total cheapie! But who doesn’t like cheap (and delicious) food? Okay, I sound like a total cheapie again. Shells and White Cheddar - She Makes and Bakes. This is one of my favorite stove top macaroni and cheese recipes. Instead of boiling the noodles in water, you cook them in milk. It's very easy to do, and there's only three ingredients. Have you ever had Pasta Roni Shells and White Cheddar? See my bagels « Things we make. Although there is generally a lot of baking on Things{we}make I am lucky that it is a joint venture and that Ed understands my need to show you my bagels. I like that he knows how to make a good-looking filling of pastrami, pea shoots and horseradish. It is most important that he will fill three bagels: one for him, one for me and one for the camera. We eat the ‘one for the camera’ too.

He’s also very handy at finding random pieces of old wood to use as backgrounds. …and he’s amenable to holding a reflector whilst I try to capture an image in the fading winter light. Copycat Pizza Factory Breadsticks. In a bowl mix the yeast, sugar, and warm water together and let sit for 2-3 minutes until foamy. Add oil, salt, and flour and either knead by hand or using dough hook for about 5 minutes. (If dough seems too sticky add an extra tbsp or two of flour). Remove dough and spray the bowl with Pam or lightly coat with olive oil. Place dough back in the bowl turning once to coat, then cover with a towel and let rise until doubled. (About one hr) Divide dough into 8 equal parts (about 4 oz each). Garlic Monkey Bread. Garlic Monkey Bread I want to live in a universe where bread is considered healthy and good for you. I want to live in a world where bread is enjoyed at every meal, in place of the bad for you veggies. Broccoli is despised, along with cauliflower, spinach and squash.

Reclaiming Provincial. Alright boys and girls, feast your eyes on the cutest little bread EVER. Double Chocolate Loaf. Cinnabons Cinnamon Rolls. Cinnabons Cinnamon Rolls – a cinnabon copycat recipe, about the closest you’ll get to the real thing. Super easy to make. Who doesn’t love the cinnabons at the malls?

Hash Brown Casserole Recipe. Hash brown casserole is one of the easiest and most delicious types of casserole you will find anywhere. This recipe combines frozen hash browns with sour cream, cream of chicken soup, and various other ingredients. How to Make Cream Cheese at Home. After having nailed — if I do say so myself — how to make homemade goat cheese chèvre style, my confidence as an amateur cheesemaker has soared. In fact, for the past few months, every time I open the fridge, I can hear the collective gasp of all liquid dairy products.

There's a Veggiesaurus on the loose! Taylor is a Veggiesaurus (that's Keith-speak for vegetarian). She stopped eating meat this past summer, saying it was only temporary, but it looks like she's going to try to stick to it. The rest of us are definitely omnivores. Nutella-Stuffed Breakfast Muffins. God bless taxes. After all, if cocoa beans hadn’t have been taxed sixty some-odd years ago in Italy, we may never have the creamy concoction of bliss known as Nutella. Bagels…revisited « Inquiring Chef. Soft Wrap Bread. *According to KAF: this recipe works best with instant yeast because it dissolves during the kneading process, so you don't have to knead liquid into the dough. If you prefer to use active dry yeast, use only 1 cup boiling water for the initial dough, dissolve the yeast in 1/4 cup warm water, and add this mixture to the dough along with the potato flour mixture.

Cheesy Garlic Biscuits a la Red Lobster – Step by Step Easy Recipe. Jalapeno-cheese bread. Pita Bread Recipe. Honey-soaked hot cross buns. Corniest corn muffins. Salt bagels and jalapeno cream cheese. Halloumi-stuffed Olive Oil Flatbread. Jalapeño-cheddar scones. Sajtos Pogácsa - Hungarian Cheese Puffs. Bread without a timetable. Crisp rosemary flatbread. Easy Homemade Flour Tortillas. Light brioche burger buns. Pita bread. Soft pretzels, refreshed. Bretzel rolls. Apple and honey challah. Cheese Pinwheel Rolls. Fig, olive oil and sea salt challah + book tour! Lazy pizza dough + favorite margherita pizza. Southern Sally Lunn Bread. Ima's Challah recipe on Food52.com. RECIPE: PRETZEL CHALLAH — molly yeh.

Easter Bunny Shaped Rolls. Avocado Habanero Hot Sauce. Garlic & Parsley Buttermilk Biscuits. Sweet Vanilla Challah.