Pain de campange

There was a time when I was making bread because there was no good bakery around. Now there is no excuse, but I'm still drawn into the habit of making a mess in my kitchen by sprinkling it with flour and leaving traces of dough on the sink and kitchen counter. But in the end, …

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Pepper and fig bread

In primary and secondary school I used to love to read, but I guess there was no internet then, or it was really crappy one, so it was easier to find a time for it. Since I went to university the amount of books read started to decrease, up to the point when I was …

Simple bread rolls

Phew, it feels like forever since we talk about bread here. It's the beginning of the year and everybody is talking about new - new plans, new you, but sometimes among all this is good to get something familiar, to maybe sooth any pain of new. So I'm going back to basics. Bread is one of the staples …

Sage and onion tear and share bread

l may not want to admit it but I'm a carb addict. I love my bread, even if I try to manage my addiction. So whenever something goes wrong, the life gets tiny bit more stressful the first thing that comes to my mind is warm, fluffy, white bread. I attempted this bread after after three cake catastrophes to …

Lavender and honey bread

Maybe if I lived in a country where good quality bread is easy to find I wouldn't make my own bread. We will never know, as I already got a bug. There is something addictive about bread making. Probably it is a smell of freshly baked bread, a tiny hiss you hear in a crust or just a …

Leftover pesto bread

I was always told you should never waste food. There are million dishes you can make with leftovers. I must say, I'm not always as good as I should. Sometimes I find something in the back of my fridge that can't be rescued, but I work on it, so it doesn't happen too often. Last week I …

Pain de Provence

A colleague confessed that he doesn't bake because it isn't practical. I thought about it and he is right, but that is the very same reason why I love baking. Because baking isn't necessary, it doesn't feel like an obligation, it's more fun. Both cooking and baking are creative activities, but another reason why I choose baking is that you bake …

Focaccia

Baking bread is addictive. Every bread book says so. I don't know what it is about, but even though bread is fussy and doesn't always turn out as it should it's the most satisfying of all bakes. I bought lately a few cookbooks. Apparently, nature needs balance, so even if I restricted myself from buying …

Crusty cob

I bake bread more often than I tell you about. Usually, I use one of a few standard recipes. I gathered a few bread books, but I'm not good at using them. I adore photos from Tartine Bread and I even challenged myself to try a recipe from it a few times, but Tomek wasn't too …

Bread rolls with oats

I must tell you, I almost gave up and wanted to publish Christmas cookie recipe today. I wanted to blame the Christmas station launch for it. But at the very last minute I decided I will tell you about this a little bit complicated recipe for bread rolls. For their excuse I can say they were …