Bake or Break

Focaccia with Onion and Rosemary

One of the best cookbooks we’ve recently bought is Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. Reading the title made me do a bit of an eye roll, thinking that this was some baking scam. After reading some other bakers’ experiences with the book, I had a change of heart and bought it.

I am not a bread baker. Honestly, I lack the patience for it. Quinn is the bread baker in our house. I am a big fan of my bread machine, but using it always feels a bit like cheating. With this book, however, I can now say that I can bake bread.

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Cinnamon Swirl Rolls

View a printable recipe and more photos For the next installment in the continuing saga of my new bread machine, Quinn and I decided to make cinnamon rolls. We’ve been threatening for months to make Alton’s recipe, but we never quite seem to do it. With the bread machine, though, we thought it would be [...]

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Jalapeno Focaccia

View a printable recipe or more photographs For years, I have been anti-bread-machine. From my knowledge of them, I thought they were a cop-out way of making bread. However, thanks to one of my culinary heroes, Alton Brown, I have come to realize that bread machines are quite handy for kneading and proofing dough. So, [...]

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Prosciutto-Swiss Rolls

View a printable recipe or more photographs at flickr. When I came home Thanksgiving Eve to find Quinn sick and in bed, he had started making these rolls earlier in the day for our big meal the next day. I assured him I could finish and left him to wallow. He had everything mixed, and [...]

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Alton Brown’s Pizza

In honor and anticipation of this weekend’s cooking seminar in Nashville, I made Alton Brown’s pizza dough as seen in the classic episode Flat is Beautiful and in his most recent book, I’m Just Here for More Food. In fact, I’m sitting in the passenger seat as Jennifer drives us on the first leg of [...]

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Herb Cloverleaf Rolls

I am usually much more inclined to bake desserts than breads, but I’m trying to do better. Recently, Quinn was planning to grill filets for us, so I decided that I would make some bread. Looking through my seemingly bottomless stack of “recipes to try,” I happened upon a recipe from a several years old [...]

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