Bread baking deals a lot with reaching the correct temperature. Learn more about bread temperature tips as well as baking cookbook recommendations!
For a lazy-day breakfast (fall weekend? birthday?), it’s hard to beat a stack of homemade crêpes. Lay them out with a veritable smörgåsbord of toppings for browsing or compose plates of them for a simple but high-class sit-down breakfast. As easy (easier?) than pancakes and infinitely customizable, they’re perfect for a quiet brunch with family….
Can we agree that the chocolate chip cookie is one of the greatest culinary innovations ever to be birthed from a human mind? Is that too much? Of course, I’m not talking about cookies in a bag that disintegrate into dust when you bite them, and I’m not talking about boxes of “fresh” cookies from…
As we approach St. Patrick’s Day, the minds of Americans turn to three foods: corned beef, cabbage, and soda bread. But unlike corned beef, the Irish in Ireland actually eat soda bread! Known by various names according to its flour content and shape, soda bread is eaten all over the Emerald isle. And while the…
There’s nothing like freshly baked bread to make your home smell amazing. Everyone loves a fresh, warm loaf spread with softened butter and maybe some quality jam. But bread is intimidating for many people to make, and so most of us rely on the store-bought stuff. And while I’m not here to criticize sliced bread,…
If there is a food that is more versatile than pasta, I’m not sure what it is. The sheer taxonomy of it alone boggles the mind. Fresh and dried, filled and unfilled, extruded or rolled, hollow or solid—those are just the forms. Then there are the preparations—tomato sauces of a million varieties, pesto, cream sauces….
While there is much to commend the classic American pizzeria-style, delivered-in-a box pizza, it will almost always fall short of a Neapolitan-style pizza. When Raffaele Esposito created the Margherita pizza in Naples back in the mid-1800’s and launched the popularity of pizza, he used a woodfired brick oven that had enough heat to lightly char…
