Avocado and Walnut Bread. It's not the first time I eat something in a restaurant and instantly think "how can I recreate this at home? ". In fact, this happens to me most of the time if I'm having something that is really nice, but at least seemingly easy to make at home. I had one of these moments after having the Burnt Orange Cafe's walnut bread with avocado, and I couldn't wait to try making my version of it. In Finland I used to bake my own bread all the time. Somehow the flour there was easier (for me) to work with, there was more flour varieties available, and I always had fresh yeast to use for making bread rolls or other bread at home. After moving to Australia I not only mostly stopped eating bread (because I couldn't quite find rye bread I was happy with), but I also stopped baking it. This avocado and walnut bread will definitely become a new favourite of mine.
Avocado and Walnut Bread(Recipe adapted from NY Times) Preheat oven to 180C and prepare a standard size loaf tin. Enjoy! Baking WIthout a Box: Chocolate Chip Banana Bread & TasteSpotting. Easy Garlic Cheddar Biscuits | Ginas Skinny Recipes. Golden cheddar biscuits drizzled with garlic parsley butter. Make sure you have some company to enjoy these with, or you'll be tempted to eat them all!
You can easily halve this recipe. Of course, they taste best fresh out of the oven, but reheating them the next day is still good if you have leftovers. Garlic Cheddar BiscuitsSkinnytaste.com Servings: 14 • Serving Size: 1 biscuit • Old Points: 2 pts • Points+: 3 ptsCalories: 97.3 • Fat: 3.9 g • Protein: 3.7 g • Carb: 13.0 g • Fiber: 0.0 g Ingredients: 2 tbsp butter, melted2 cloves garlic, minced2 tbsp fresh chopped parsley2 cups Heart Smart Bisquick3.5 oz shredded sharp Cheddar cheese (Cabot 50% reduced fat)2/3 cup fat free milk Directions: Preheat oven to 400°. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Melt butter in a small frying pan, add half the garlic and saute on low heat about 1 minute. In a large bowl, combine biscuit mix, cheddar cheese, and remaining garlic. Bake for 10 minutes. Soft Pretzel Bites | Handle the Heat.
Banana Bread. I often wonder how many recipes there are for banana bread. From the mixing methods to the variations of ingredients, there seem to be thousands. I make my share of these variations, but today I am sharing the recipe for my standard, plain ol' banana bread. My idea of a good banana bread is one with a tender cake, but not so moist that it is gummy. So, with the goal of straddling this fine line, I use butter and bit of sour cream or yogurt. I aim for a nice dome with a crunchy, sugary top.
To this end, I sprinkle the top of the unbaked bread with Demerara sugar. Banana Bread makes one 8 1/2 x 4 1/2-inch loaf 1 1/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature 2 tablespoons sour cream or plain yogurt 2/3 cup granulated sugar 2 extra large eggs lightly beaten, at room temperature 1 cup mashed very ripe banana, 2-3 depending on size 1/2 teaspoon vinegar. Rolled Biscuits with Herbs and Parmesan. April 8, 2011 | Breads, Popular You know the saying, when life gives you lemons, well, when spring gives you herbs, it’s time to shake off the winter chill and do something fresh with them.
I’ve been wanting to make traditional rolled biscuits for some time, and the sight of my herbs pushing up through the garden like this inspired me. I also recently splurged on a new mixer, convincing myself that my budding chef daughter needed my old mixer and that justified the splurge on a new one for me.
And I was itching to try it out. While some people make doughs in a food processor, I’m confident in my mixer technique so stick with that. You can make these biscuits from start to hot out of the oven in about 30 minutes, so they are perfect for a weeknight dinner. The process is similar to making my flaky tart crust dough, but you want to mix the herbs and cheese into the flour before you begin mixing in the butter. …before rolling it out to about 1/2 inch thickness.
Herbed Biscuits with Parmesan. Pumpkin Bread | TheshoeboxKitchen. In case we haven’t mentioned it already, we just LOVE pumpkin here in the shoebox. Chances are, if it contains pumpkin in the ingredients list, we’re going to like it – a lot. In fact, we’re not really sure if there are any recipes out there that wouldn’t benefit from a little pumpkin.
It’s like salt and pepper, pumpkin is. Okay, so maybe we’re exaggerating . . . just a bit. But who doesn’t love Fall? Anyway, suffice it to say we’ve had much debate over what to make using our fresh Wamsted pumpkin puree. So late last week one of Jason’s coworkers brought in some homemade pumpkin bread. After all, pumpkin bread is the pumpkin standard, right? Pumpkin Bread (thanks for the recipe, Paula!!) Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg into a large bowl and set aside. Whisk together the sugar, eggs, and oil in a separate bowl until well blended. Pour the batter evenly into the two prepared loaf pans. We couldn’t. Like this: Chop Chop's Cocoa Banana Bread.
I had the good fortune a few weeks back to meet Sally Sampson, a woman I've admired for some time. Sally has worked for years as a cookbook writer, and as such, brought a number of my favorite cookbooks to market. Some of my most worn volumes were written by Sally, including Todd English's The Olives Table , The Olives Dessert Table , and the first book of his I ever owned, The Figs Table . Sally is also the author of my most used cookbook (if its physical disrepair is any indication), the terrific Party Nuts!
, from which we've pulled many recipes for the nut mixes we give friends and family in our annual holiday gift baskets. A couple of years ago, and after having written 20+ cookbooks, Sally switched gears and founded ChopChop Magazine, a quarterly publication dedicated to educating kids about cooking and nutrition, and encouraging these kids and their parents to get in the kitchen and cook together......Halleluja! So how are things going so far at ChopChop? Cheers - Steve Recipe: Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread. This month’s Sweet Punch challenge is to bake your choice and I baked this Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Bread. The moment I saw this recipe on Joy’s blog I wanted to bake this for my little one who loves cinnamon bun which I make at least once a month for him.
So recently when he requested for cinnamon bun I made this pull-apart bread for him…..We loved this very soft cinnamon sugar filled pull apart …. It’s easy to make, just roll the dough, slather it with butter and cinnamon sugar, slice it and stack into a loaf pan and bake…. so easy right?? Now on to the recipe….. Makes: one 9x5x3-inch loaf Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread For the Dough: 2 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1/4 cup granulated sugar 2 1/4 teaspoons (1 envelope) active dry yeast 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 ounces unsalted butter 1/3 cup whole milk 1/4 cup water 2 large eggs, at room temperature 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract For the Filling: 1 cup granulated sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg Method:
Chewy Pretzel Bites. Listen, I make a lot of bread. We all know that. And I’m not shy about my love for carbs. But these pretzel bites are hands down the most ethereal, glorious little morsels I have ever eaten. I’ve made the classic pretzel version a million times but they don’t hold a candle in chewy softness to these pretzel bites. We ate these for dinner one night, dipped in this (heaven help me!)
One Year Ago: Smoked Turkey Brie and Apple PaniniTwo Years Ago: Loaded Peanut Butter Cup CookiesThree Years Ago: Macadamia Crusted Chicken with Mango Salsa Note: if using active dry yeast, increase the yeast to 1 tablespoon. Ingredients Dough: 2 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour (see note) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast 1 cup (8 ounces) very warm water Topping: 1/2 cup (4 ounces) warm water 2 tablespoons baking soda Coarse salt (optional) 3 tablespoons butter, melted Directions In a large bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer, place the flour, salt, sugar and yeast.
CHEWY PRETZEL BITES. How to Make Soft Pretzels. Dear Wednesday, I’m feelin’ the stress. I have a zit on my face I’m trying to pass off as a Cindy Crawford mole. I’m packing up my apartment again. Who stole all my spoons? All I’ve eaten is two burritos and a jar of pickles in the past three days. I’d like for someone to hold my hand and take me out to dinner. I think I might be whining. Ok. Wednesday, I just need one thing from you. Be a pal, Wednesday. Rad, Joy Jill and I… we bake together. You might want to get in on this action. Flour, yeast, sugar, salt and water. Oh! Look at those foamy, frothy yeast bubbles. Shaggy. Ready for kneading. We will turn these into twisted baked dough dipped in mustard.
All that dough for eight giant pretzels. The pretzel twisting always gets complicated in my brain. These are my tongs. Heh… hot dough. I don’t know why hot dough is still funny to me… but it is. My pretzels get loaded with goodness before being slapped in the oven. This would be the goodness. And the after baking/dipping goodness. Garlic Knots | Garlic Knots Recipe. Even since I saw the garlic knots on Just a Taste, I have been wanting to create those cutesy bread in my kitchen. When it comes to baking, I like recipes that are simple to make, and hopefully with store-bought ingredients. This garlic knots recipe is exactly what I am looking for, using a pre-made frozen pizza dough that you can get at practically any grocery stores… I have made these garlic knots three times and they were gone as soon as they were out of the oven. They are as addictive as my other favorite: Brazilian cheese bread.
Try this easy garlic knots recipe. Soft Pretzel Bites. Soft Pretzel Bites These homemade soft pretzel bites are a perfect snack or party food. They’re your favorite soft pretzel in mini form. Yesterday I wanted something salty. As much as something chocolatey sounded good it just wasn’t going to hit the spot. Salty was a must.
I’m not one for the sweet and salty bit so I wasn’t about to combine saltiness with chocolate. It was a toss up between attempting homemade chips or pretzel bites. These are super easy to make. This will take you around 2 hours start to finish, probably a bit more if making a full batch. These homemade soft pretzel bites are a perfect snack or party food. Ingredients: 1 1/2C warm water 2 tbsp brown sugar 1pkg active dry yeast 6 tbsp butter, melted 2 1/2 tsp salt 4 1/2 - 5C AP flour 2 Qts water 1/4C baking soda 1 egg, beaten plus 1 tbsp water coarse sea salt for topping Directions: Add salt and flour to wet mixture.
Grease a medium bowl with oil. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Divide dough into 8 equal pieces. Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread.