BISCUITS
3 cups unbleached white flour (or I use the hard white wheat that I grind into flour)
2 T. sugar
1 1/2 t. sea salt
4 1/2 t. baking powder
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup milk
Mix dry ingredients in Bosch.  Then add butter and allow to mix in with the dry ingredients.  Add milk last and let mix until [...]

4 cups whole wheat flour (I like to use hard white wheat, freshly ground)
1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt
7 Tablespoons olive oil
1 1/3 cups warm water
Mix flour and salt in a Bosch, mixer with dough hook, or your food processor.  Add in olive oil slowly until mixture is crumbly.  Slowly add in warm water.  Add additional [...]

Makes 2 loaves or 2 dozen rolls
Put ingredients into pan of bread machine in the following order:

1 1/2 cups warm water
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons salt (sea salt preferred)
4 cups unbleached flour (use a combo – 1 wheat/3 white)
1/3 cup sugar (honey preferred)
1/2 cup instant potato flakes
5 teaspoons active dry yeast

Set bread machine on “dough” [...]

One of my goals for the new year was to learn how to make homemade bagels. While I have tried making bagels several times, and it seems to take so long and they never turned out very well. So… a week or so ago when I found a recipe for homemade English muffins (and made [...]

Mix up the following ingredients in a plastic bowl (or just mix up in your Bosch or heavy duty mixer), cover, and let it sit out on the counter for 12-24 hours:

9 cups whole wheat flour
4 cups (1 quart) buttermilk (or you could use 4 cups water & 4 tablespoons whey or lemon juice)(You can [...]

I wanted to share a recipe that I got from a friend a few years ago. She called it Tupperware Bread…and you’ll find out why when you read the directions. This would be a great recipe for those that have never made bread before or don’t have a nice big heavy-duty mixer to knead the [...]

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup milk
1 cup whole wheat flour
½ cup sugar (or Sucanat for a healthier option)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 eggs
6 Tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
In a small bowl, soak 1 cup cornmeal and 1 cup milk for 15 minutes without stirring.
Preheat oven to 400 [...]

I made my first two (successful) loaves of sourdough bread Monday and they turned out great!  I have tried to make my own sourdough starter before and make bread…well, the bread turned out more like bricks!  I don’t think my sourdough starter was working very well.
So I decided to try it again.  This time I [...]