Ciabatta Experiment
Work is winding down and now I have time to bake again. I had some leftover pizza dough in the freezer and thought I’d try to use that as Biga for my Ciabatta experiment. I used Peter Reinhardt’s recipe and added some Basil infused olive oil my friend Pin got me. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn [...]
Birthday Bread
It’s my Dad’s birthday this weekend and he loves homemade bread. So I made him a healthy and hearty flaxseed loaf as Birthday bread! More to come…
New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies
Secret’s out! The greatest and biggest chocolate chip cookie mystery has been solved! So how could I not attempt to bake the most talked about New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookie that has every baker around the world giving thanksgiving prayers and becoming intensely popular amongst the people they shared their cookies with? Naively I [...]
Basic Hearth Bread
Was a decent effort, quite happy. Recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum’s The Bread Bible.
Cinnamon Crumb Surprise for special favours
I haven’t been baking or blogging for awhile. Like a huge part of the online community, I’ve been distracted with Facebook and Fighters’ Club. It’s seriously addictive and been overwhelmed by the huge surprise reunion party that was awaiting me. It is incredibly surreal. It’s amazing how I still manage to get work done. Somehow. [...]
Basic Sourdough Bread
Thought I should give sourdough another go – a simpler version. I wanted to try introducing steam today but failed. I was going to use the ice cube method but realised at the last minute that my fridge no longer produced ice (or iced water)! So silly that I didn’t check it before. So thought [...]
Sourdough Rye with Flaxseeds
I’ve finally gotten round to it, making Sourdough Rye bread. I haven’t really been spending a lot of time baking in the last months and forgotten how long you need in preparation for bread baking. This is my first time making Sourdough Rye and I think I might have added just a teeny tiny bit [...]
Potato Rosemary Breadrolls
This was meant to be my contribution to Zorra‘s new event Baking Bread Day a follow up to World Bread Day – where bread bakers bake a themed bread for the first weekend on each month. This month’s theme was Baking with Herbs. I am a week late for the deadline, but this was what [...]
Bialys
It’s Vesak Day (Buddha’s Birthday & Public Holiday) today and so thought I’d try out a recipe from one of my new cookbooks, Jeffrey Hamelman’s Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes. Let me first clarify, until my eyes laid upon the recipe I had no idea what Bialys (Bee-ah-lees) were, so while I [...]
Banana Bread in Terra-cotta Flower Pots
It was another Big Bread weekend! Inspired by the wonderful recipes from my two brand new Bread baking books, Peter Reinhart’s Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bread Bakers and Jeffrey Hamelman’s Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes (There was a sale at Kinokuniya). Reinhart’s new book Whole Grain Bread: New Techniques, [...]
Brioche
I’m in the need for comfort food. Rich foods (equals fatty foods). I’m not usually known to finish a whole tub of Ben & Jerry’s (Chubby Hubby’s my Fav!) all on my own, stuff my face with cheesecake (it was offered to me) even when I was full, and have chocolate molten lava cake a [...]
Challah
I wanted to bake something special for Good Friday & Easter. And of course, being the good example of a bad Catholic girl, I thought, “Jesus must’ve eaten Challah?!” I’ve got the recipe from The Bread Baker’s Apprentice : Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart. It’ll surely be great! So the night [...]
I’m back with 3 Seeded Bread Rolls
I just came out of a crazy 3 week project that was made up of 14-16 hour days. I am not as young as I used to be – what a shocker. So explains the lack of blogging and the effort to press the button on my camera that takes the photo the past weeks. [...]
Sourdough Flatbread
I made Naan Flatbread and I made it with sourdough! It was very exciting! Although not really true or accurate, because I don’t think there’s sourdough in Naans. The sourness usually comes from the yoghurt – which I realised at the last minute I forgot to buy so I used sourdough starter instead. I’ve been [...]
Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes with Rice Crispies
It was clear when I first heard that a good friend was leaving to return to England I had to make a wonderful chocolate cupcake. But I wasn’t quite sure what chocolate cupcake it was to be. Chris likes his Cadbury Boost Bars, I thought about chopping up the bar to top the chocolate fudge [...]
Milo Muffins
Once when I was maybe 4, I went on a covert mission that lead me to crawl onto the kitchen counter top so I could procure the monster tin an of Milo in the overhead cabinet. After securing the highly valued object, I rewarded myself by grabbing a big spoon and proceeded to fill my [...]
Soft Pretzels
I love Soft Pretzels or Bretzel. I love their smooth golden crust with the soft chewy centers with butter drizzled over it. Yum! I would eat it everyday when I was living in Berlin some years ago. It just something I could never get tired of eating. I’m so glad I found on The Fresh [...]
Pizza Nepoletana
The final part of my Big Bread Weekend of merry bread making! Let me begin by saying that a month ago when I first tried to make pizza dough I had no idea what was ahead of me, the whole science, debate, discussion and rules of a true Neapoilitan pizza. The recipe of my first [...]
Chewy Cinnamon Scrolls
Chewy Cinnamon Scrolls is part 2 of my 3 part Big Bread Weekend. These little buttery cinnamon scrolls in pretty paper cups fresh from the oven really hits the spot. Comfort food. Warm rolled up chewiness in cinnamon and hazelnut butter, the aromatic wafts of cinnamon on a monsoon afternoon makes it all okay. And [...]
The Big Bread Weekend! Lesson 01: Patience is a (Bread) Baking Virtue
“Patience is a Baking Virtue” Peter Reinhart How wise and true. More specifically, Bread Baking. So much time and consideration goes into baking a loaf of bread. I had finally gotten my hands on The Bread Baker’s Apprentice : Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart. I’ve read so many good reviews about [...]
Butterscotch Cupcakes
I ordered 3 back copies of Donna Hay Magazine and I think it’s undoubtedly the best food magazine I’ve seen. The overall layout of the magazine is so clear, easy to read and well designed. The photography and styling of the shots are so well composed and inspiring! The writing, content and direction was, also [...]
Vanilla Cut Out Cookies
Cutout cookies are cute! They’re a lot more time-consuming to make but they’re also a lot of fun. I used the recipe from the special interest publication of Better Homes and Gardens : Christmas Cookies. The recipe’s Vanilla Rounds – but I decided shapes would be more fun. The little black dots on the cookies [...]
Long weekend with endless baking!
Just to sum up the endless baking over the long weekend, we made: 150 Muffins (Allspice Applesauce & Blueberry, Cranberry and Walnut, Milo and Banana Bran) 50 Mini Bāos (Red Bean Paste & Green Tea Lotus Seed Paste) 3 Pizzas (Made my own dough from scratch!) Pizza!! Ever since Zorra from Kochtopf hosted World Bread [...]
