Bake or Break

Pear Bread

View a printable recipe or more photos I bring you this recipe with a warning. After you try it, you may never want to bake anything else ever again. It is just that good. If I had pears in the kitchen, I'd be making it again right now.

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Focaccia with Onion and Rosemary

View a printable recipe or more photos 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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Raspberry, White Chocolate, and Almond Loaf

View a printable recipe or more photos Being a big fan of Williams-Sonoma, you can imagine that I am an even bigger fan of the Williams-Sonoma outlet about 90 miles from here. I try to keep my visits to a minimum, but I do love perusing the aisles looking at all of that lovely, mostly [...]

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Chocolate Bread Pudding

View more photos I really wanted to make something chocolate-y for Thanksgiving, but I had a hard time figuring out what to make. I had thought about a chocolate cake, but that just seemed boring. The day before Thanksgiving, I remembered seeing this recipe from Paula Deen. I looked it over and decided [...]

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Corn Bread Bites

View a printable recipe or more photos One of our fall-back dinners, especially in cooler weather, is a very simple bowl of chili. Usually, we have corn bread with our chili, provided we have the time and energy to make it. My go-to recipe for corn bread is a nice, just-sweet-enough version that I’ve [...]

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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 [...]

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