Tag: bread making

  • No-Nonsense Sourdough Bread

    No-Nonsense Sourdough Bread

    I have been baking bread for my family for the last couple of years and I have gone through countless bread making tips, techniques, and recipes. I have settled now settled on my own recipe for No-Nonsense Sourdough Bread. It just simply WORKS. Tip – I usually start the bread making process in the evening…

  • Baking Bread

    It seems that baking bread is the thing to do during this current “shelter in place” caused by the Corona virus. Funny thing is, I started baking bread a couple of years ago simply out of curiosity and I’ve been baking two or three loaves a week ever since. Also, I got tired of buying…

  • Sourdough Bread; We’re Back in Business

    Sourdough Bread; We’re Back in Business

    If you cast your mind back a couple weeks to mid to late June you may remember we had a little bit of a heat wave. And the combination of that little heat wave and the frenzy associated with the end of the school year made me forget to take care of my sourdough starter.…

  • A Beautiful Loaf of Bread

    A Beautiful Loaf of Bread

    “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” –Buddha

  • Baking Bread at the Cabin

    Baking Bread at the Cabin

    This weekend, the first weekend of spring break was a perfect opportunity to get out of town with my kids and do a little cabin cooking. More specifically – I was baking bread. The first loaf of bread in the video posted above is a full-on, quick rise, no muss yeast bread. In my mixing…

  • DIY Bread Making Table Update

    DIY Bread Making Table Update

      Update to what I thought was my super clever DIY bread making table. Remember how I said I intentionally made it taller so that I could more comfortably work my bread? Yeah, it was too tall to work at comfortably. So I went back to the plumbing supply store and bought four 8″ sections,…

  • Updated; No-Knead Rolled Oats Bread

    I promise this isn’t turning into a bread-blog, but my goodness, did we ever make a beauty of a loaf of bread yesterday! This is our No-Knead Rolled Oats Bread. I checked out Steve’s Kitchen on YouTube and followed his super simple instructions and wow, what a beautiful loaf! It rose up almost to the lid…

  • Cast Iron Cooking; Making Bread

    Those who follow me on Instagram or my Facebook page know that I’ve been working on my baking skills. I’m still working on my biscuit making technique and I’ve returned to bread making. Typically I do my bread making while at the cabin. However, this spring break I decided to do some bread baking at…

  • Quick and Easy Homemade Bread

    Typically I like to make homemade bread and do “cast iron cooking” while away at the cabin. However, I was given a couple medium sized cast iron pans and they needed to be seriously cleaned and seasoned. And one of the best ways to season a cast iron pan is while making homemade bread. So…

  • Cabin Cooking; the Bread Making Edition 

    Family Day is the newest stat holiday in BC so I did my usual routine and got out of the city. I headed up the Fraser Canyon to the cabin. And as I usually do at the cabin, I got into experimenting in the kitchen. Seeing as I had one of my daughters with me…