Easy Garlic Butter Breadsticks

If you've got 30 minutes, you've got time to bake up a batch of these simple, butter-slathered breadsticks. There's nothing fancy or frou frou about them. They're just little poles of white bread dough cooked until golden brown then smeared in good flavors. To make things even easier, serve them right on the baking sheet, and let your family sop up the butter with their breadsticks. 1 packet yeast 2 cups very warm water 1/4 cup sugar 3 cups flour 1 stick butter, melted 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon sea salt 2 tablespoons grated parmesan 2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Stir the flour into the mixture one half-cup at a time, adding just enough to make the mixture soft, pliable and not too sticky, but not so floured that it becomes a heavy hunk. Pull a round of dough into your hands (about the size of a small apple). As soon as you remove your breadsticks from the oven, mix together the melted butter, garlic powder, sea salt, and grated parmesan.

Kitchen Hack: One-Minute Bread Oven-fresh bread is one of life’s simple joys. Ciabatta, a crisp-crusted Italian bread with hints of sourdough and loads of crannies longing for butter, is one of the easiest breads to make at home. Why are we talking about baking bread on Lifehack? Because kitchen hacks aren’t just impressive, they often have very tasty results! In this instance, I’m going to show you how to make ciabatta with less than one minute of prep time. You may have heard of “no-knead” bread before. I wanted something very, very simple that delivered great results in 60 seconds of prep time or less. For your ciabatta you’ll need: 4 cups of all-purpose flour (do NOT pack the flour into the measuring cup)2 cups of warm water1 teaspoon of salt1/4 teaspoon of granulated yeast (or equivalent) For the gorgeous readers needing metric equivalents of this recipe, Toon left a comment with the following conversion: Have everything handy? 1. 2. Add flour and salt to your bowl of yeasty water. 3. Use a spoon. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Crazy Pizza Bread When Rachael of Fuji Mama asked me if I’d be interested in developing a recipe for Lindsay Olive’s Back-To-School Challenge, I immediately said yes. See, at first all I heard was “Rachael…Fuji Mama…Lindsay Olives…” and of course, at some point someone mentioned food. What was there to think about? I love Rachael, I love olives, and olives are food. It was a no-brainer as far as I was concerned. Then, of course, the whole “challenge” part of the deal suddenly started sinking in. Of course, now I do the same thing. But of course, this isn’t about me. Enter Crazy Pizza Bread. I need to back up a minute here. So I decided instead to make a pizza loaf instead. You can make this the night before and pack it for lunch the next day. I aso love that you can let the kids help you make this. For a grown up version, try adding a few roasted garlic cloves, caramelized onions, and goat cheese. Oh, and resist slicing into it immediately.