My wife had intended to imbibe a couscous salad of hers with currants, raisins and alcohol. It made no sense to me until I recalled a speckled Welsh bread from Chris Young's The Real Bread Campaign. Young's credited the recipe for this British bread (known as "Bara...
I found a new way sandwich roll for the holidays. It's a mix that riffs off panettone, all-be-it a bread that's not studded with fruit or flavoring. Just eggs and butter and a long mix of about nine hours of proofing. The key is to refresh the lievito madre in...
Pain de campagne (aka "country bread")is a flavorful and structured bread. A wheat bread generally includes rye at around 10 percent. Below is a recent version using rye sourdough. This adds a punchy ferment and beguiling flavor. It's great with pate, cheese or just...
Work has been overtaking my usual lazy baking routine. All to say, that my job has forced me to baking without involving any retarding of dough. That means a five-hour window from mix to bake, not counting previous day's levain build. Below are photos of two...
Years ago when I called myself "the lazy baker," I spent a lot of time on Facebook whining about scheduling my bread bakes. Writer and baker Jean Philippe de Tonnac generously reached out and suggested I write a book. He even offered an outline; a series of thoughts...
Pan Bagnat is an iconic Provencal sandwich which my mother taught us in childhood it's base is Nicoise salad on bread. Returning from Provence I craved one after I was disappointedly served terrible version from a sandwich shop this summer slathered in mayonnaise,...
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