The Pastry Hustle

I've been really bad about blogging my baking adventures. I've made naan bread (not so great), a gingerbread house, cookies for Santa, pita bread, and today's creation, a chocolate cake for my husband's birthday. I will write more about each project soon, but in the interest of getting out a post, I'm doing a quickieContinue reading "Must write more but in the meantime…"

'Tis the season to do a lot of baking.  I wish I could be baking more, but things like family, and holiday cards, and oh yeah WORK get in the way. Life really. Still, I have been doing my fair share of baking. I made gingerbread cookies and then I made a gingerbread house (hadContinue reading "Recipe 12. Cheddar and Onion Rye Rolls"

This recipe is similar to the other loaf recipes I'd done before. Nothing new here so I wasn't ultra thrilled about it. Sure I was looking forward to yummy bread and using the Pullman pan again, but there wasn't a new technique to master or new flour to work with. While I was gathering allContinue reading "Recipe 11. Whole Wheat Pullman Loaves"

I was super excited about this recipe. I mean sunflower seeds in yummy roll format, but things weren't exactly as I'd hoped. I mean, they were tasty and all, just different than what I was expecting. The recipe called for wheat bran. I had such trouble finding what I needed online so I ventured toContinue reading "Recipe 10. Sunflower Seed Rolls"

I'm so behind on this whole blogging part of this experience. I'm still keeping up with actually baking a recipe a week, but actually sitting down to write about the experience has proven to be harder than I thought. When I do have time, I find something else to do. Mindless stuff like binge watchingContinue reading "Recipe 9. Rye with Caraway Seeds"

I've gotten behind on my posts. Life has been crazy busy and that means when I do have down time I typically don't feel like sitting in front of a computer and writing about a recipe that failed. Well, it didn't fail really but it just wasn't as much fun as I thought it wouldContinue reading "Recipe 8. Grissini"

I was worried about this recipe for several reasons. I don't know if it was the French name (it's white sandwich bread essentially) or the fact that I had to use a Pullman pan - which up until this recipe I had never heard of - but worried I was. Oh yeah. And the maths.Continue reading "Recipe 7. Pain de Mie"

I can't sleep so I might as well write a bonus post. Why do I keep hearing "it's the insomnia, stupid" in my head? I know it's "economy" and I know it was Clinton's campaign (James Carville, strategist) but I hear it as George Bush junior. Weird. I wanted to tell you guys about someContinue reading "Bonus Post – It’s the insomnia version"

Well, it's been a while since my last post. Life and a bit of laziness got in the way. But, I'm back to tell you all about the latest recipes from The Book I have completed - soft roll dough (Recipe 4) and Parker House rolls (Recipe 5). I decided they were best blogged aboutContinue reading "Recipes 5 and 6: Soft Roll Dough and Parker House Rolls"

Finally, something different - an unfamiliar flour and herbs to mix up the bread making. I wasn't sure what durum was so I did several internet searches until I had a better understanding - plus I had to search pretty hard to find exactly what I was looking for to order. Durum flour was trickyContinue reading "Recipe 4. Durum Rosemary Bread"