“Wakey, wakey!” — The Doctor “Regenerate me!” — Chameleon Circuit Ready to bring your dried sourdough starter back to life? It’s easy! I’ve been thinking a lot about regeneration lately. Sure, partly because there’s a new Doctor on Doctor Who — a woman this time, and she’s brilliant. Time Lords are the only humanoids that…
Tag: Bread
Basic Sourdough Bread
Ready to take the leap and move on from SourFaux? Tackle a loaf with no added yeast? It’s fun! There’s something almost magical about watching a combination of flour and water transform itself into dough. I had such good results following Serious Eats’ method of making Sourdough Starter that I decided to try their recipe for the bread. It came…
Rustic Sourdough Bread: Delicious, Dependable “SourFaux”
King Arthur recommends this recipe for beginning sourdough bakers, so I dutifully started here. It’s an easy recipe that makes a tasty, dependable loaf of bread. If you’re new to sourdough, it really is the perfect introduction. Who doesn’t like knowing that no matter how vigorous their starter is (or isn’t), this loaf will turn…
Bread Baked on a Gas Grill
Did you know you can bake bread on your outdoor grill? We had quite the heat wave a couple of weeks ago, and I didn’t want to heat up the oven. I really wanted to bake bread, though, so I figured I’d give it a go on the grill. I used sourdough, but I don’t…
Sourdough Starter
I thought there were only two choices for sourdough starter: buy some or make some. Turns out there are multiple ways of making your own. I definitely wanted to try that rather than buying, just for the fun of it. My kitchen is toasty warm all year long, so yeast breads tend to do very…
Butter Cornbread
This is cornbread at its most decadent. Fluffy, rich & flavorful. You’ll find a printer-friendly version of the recipe at the bottom of this page. Ingredients: 1 cup corn meal 1 cup flour ¼ cup sugar 4½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp kosher salt ¼ cup butter (½ stick), refrigerated & cut into pats 1 cup milk…
Whole Wheat Naan
These little loaves are the perfect accompaniment to Dal, whether you’re making it in the slow cooker or the Instant Pot. They have a light texture and flavor, not the dense heaviness some might expect from seeing the words “whole wheat” in the title. The first few times I made them, I didn’t bother putting the dough in the…
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