I was nominated to bring bread to a potluck last week, so I contributed two loaves.   The back loaf is my regular whole wheat bread , whic...

This was one of the strangest, silliest things I've ever made, but it was surprisingly tasty, so I thought I'd memorialize it here. ...

Broa is a Portuguese yeast cornbread. I've eaten it in the Azores and made it a few times from Jean Anderson's The Food of Portugal...

I didn't do anything very fancy with this. I just boiled the corned beef, cooked the carrots and potatoes separately, and added the ca...

This is my first loaf of bread in the new oven. It's a convection oven, which I've never used for bread before. I used a plain old p...

Dad and I collaborated on my birthday dinner last night. We had Crab Louis, Stromboli Bread, Golden Mushroom Soup, and two cute little dess...

This was fun. I had fried Indian papad disks (made with garbanzo flour) in oil before, but it was messy and caloric. Somewhere I read that t...

And some of the best barbecue joints serve canned sweet potatoes and flavorless storebought dinner rolls. Just because these foods have auth...

We cooked our standard comfort food yesterday: green chile enchiladas and beans. Tonight we had pulled pork, sweet potatoes, and ratatouille...

Here's another meal we made together last week: red snapper with charmoula , green beans, and gluten-free flatbread. I liked this flat...

Coming soon: thorough documentation of my first home sausage-making experiment. For now, though, there's just this lamb stew (two lamb s...

This whole January 1st meal was a New Year's resolution: pasta e fagioli (I used black-eyed peas for good luck); low-gluten bread; and a...

We made some Indian food while Mark was here, including a batch of naan. Very easy, with full flavor even though it only took a few hours. T...

This is the best sourdough bread I've ever made. During the week of the local food challenge I started a recipeless sourdough starter us...

Here's a picture of Mock Rye Bread--actually I did put a little rye flour in there--it was flavorful but more like cake than bread. Fine...

I was never much of a fan of cornbread until I moved to South Carolina and learned about Southern cornbread. It's not cake-y at all -- n...

This all started because Russell asked me for my standard whole wheat bread recipe. Here it is: Whole Wheat Bread 3 cups whole wheat flour 2...

I find I'm using this blog to record old family favorites more during the winter and holiday season. This soup is the first and best thi...

On Sunday I made: Tuscan Baked Cannellini Beans with Rosemary and Garlic. The recipe came from the Jack Bishop Italian Vegetarian book you g...

Lawson gets really depressed by whole wheat bread. He likes the various crusty white European loaves I make, and he likes all those storebou...