Monthly Archives: April 2008

My Lovely High Extraction Miche

I’ve been so eager to try this bread, and I’m so glad I finally did! The reason I had put it off for so long is that the high extraction do-it-yourself-part had intimidated me. I don’t know why – it ended up being so easy to do, and so worth this 4 extra minutes that [...]

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Bread Baking Day #9 – Oats!

This month’s Bread Baking Day theme was simple – the bread must include oats. Astrid of Paulchen’s Food Blog was our lovely host this month, and I thought there are so many options that I was paralyzed by indecision for the first 3 weeks that this challenge was posted. I decided that I wanted to [...]

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TWD – Big Bill’s Carrot Cake

Its Tuesday, and that means that the TWD’ers are back at it again. This time it was carrot cake! I’ve been wanting to make carrot cake for a while, but I’ve got so much going on it the kitchen, it had just taken a number and was waiting at the back of the line. So, [...]

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Mini treats for a Mega cause :)

When Holly of Phemomenon asked for participants in her one-off foodie event, “Blogging for Babies – An Invitation for Little Wonders” I didn’t hesitate to say yes. This is an event to promote the March For Babies, which does amazing work in the way of improving the life quality of infants, both full term and [...]

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Polenta Bread

The difficultly level of this bread is marked as “advanced” in Maggie Glezer’s book. I took one look at that and thought, what the heck. I’ve got a bread class under my belt, and I just won’t take pictures of it if its inedible :). I adapted the recipe from her book Baking Across America, [...]

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Finally – a little English love :)

I’d been daydreaming about trying my luck at English muffins ever since I saw Susan’s post at Wild Yeast. They just looked so tasty, and so much better than what you get out of a package! I’m so glad that I tried them – they are every bit as good as she promised. I didn’t [...]

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Gooey gone wild…

Okay, so not really, but it was fun to make these little bites of chocolatey goodness. Dorie’s recipe for Gooey Chocolate Cakes were what was on this weeks TWD agenda. I had opted to make miniature versions, simply because I wanted to bring all of the left overs to work (especially since hubbs is out [...]

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