french bread loaf

French Bread Loaf

Have you ever made bread?  The idea of breadmaking can have you running for the hills. 🙂  However, if you start with an easy recipe that isn’t time-consuming or difficult, you will be pleasantly pleased with the results.  Back in January of this year, I posted a recipe for no-knead bread. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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no-knead bread

no-knead bread

As I prepare this post, I am on my third try at no-knead bread.  The first attempt was relatively good but I felt the instruction of ‘hot water’ was a bit suspect.  The result?  The bread was smaller than I thought and I doubted it would rise.  And, I was right in my assumptions.  The…

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easy to make keto buns

easy to make keto buns

Last month I posted cheesy garlic bread.  It was satisfying, very scrumptious but I wanted to venture out and make a keto bread substitute.  Mr. S and I enjoy eating good artisanal bread and one of the hardest things to do while on a keto diet is to eliminate it!  There’s a lovely bakery nearby…

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roasted peppers and gorgonzola crostini

crostini with roasted peppers & gorgonzola

Crostini (little crusts in Italian) are the easiest appetizers one can make.  There are oodles and oodles of variations and limited only by one’s imagination.  Creative ones such as smashed avocado topped with thinly sliced cucumber seasoned with chili flakes and a splash of extra-virgin olive oil or mashed fresh peas with sea salt, extra-virgin…

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Picnic Bread

I absolutely love the way the kitchen smells when bread is baking in the oven.  It transports me back to a time when I was a young girl.  My siblings and I would take turns delivering mail to our grandparents who lived down the road from us.  My paternal grandmother was always baking something, especially…

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40 Minute Hamburger Buns

The night before, John and I were watching Eat Street and hamburgers were being made in one of the food trucks. They looked so good and appetizing John said why don’t we have hamburgers for dinner.  It’s finally starting to feel like Spring and although we do use our bbq all year round, yesterday was…

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