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Les Halles French Onion Soup

Anthony Bourdain, my favorite tv chef, was the head chef at Les Halles for a while.  This recipe is from the Les Halles cookbook and was helpfully put up over at Chow.com.  I made a few small changes based on what I thought sounded good and what ingredients I could find (you just try finding [...]

Bread Variations

I’ve settled on the main recipe I like for bread, now I’m usually just changing what I mix in with the dough, and sometimes making slight changes (more or less yeast, adding an egg or two, etc).  Here are the three latest.  All of them use the same recipe, so after I list the recipe [...]

Bread Part 5

Pesto and Parmesan Bread

Britnie took a bite of this one and I immediately knew I had a winner.  It’s a little more work because you need to make a small amount of pesto.  But the fact I made this on Saturday and it was gone on Sunday says a lot.  Like all the recipes I’ve [...]

Bread Part 4

As you can probably tell, I like mixing stuff in with the bread. This time instead of cinnamon I thought I’d try something else Sidney would like, chocolate.

Chocolate Chip Swirl Bread

1/2 cup warm water

2 cups water
1 1/2 t yeast
1 t kosher salt
2 T brown sugar
6 cups flour
3 t softened butter
1/2 cup semi-sweet [...]

Bread Part 3

Cinnamon Bagels

First of all I realize people have been baking bread forever and this is nothing special, but it’s an excuse to post pictures and that I really like.

This one was mostly for fun.  I love bagels, but will probably never make this recipe again.  It’s a lot of work for twelve bagels.  It’s also [...]

Bread Part 2

White Sandwich Bread
So the cinnamon bread was a huge success, but Britnie wanted a bread that wasn’t sweet for sandwiches.  Also the cinnamon swirl was mostly dark, so I thought I’d try a white bread.

I was pretty good at the basics after three weeks of experimenting with the cinnamon [...]

Bread Part 1

Cinnamon Swirl Bread
For a three or four months we were trying new ice cream recipes every weekend.  That came to an end when I started dieting after Thanksgiving, because ice cream is an issue for me.  So now I haven’t had ice cream in over a month, which is great because I’ve lost a bunch [...]