Author Archives: Beth

Parsnip Nutmeg Bread

Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables Fair warning: if you don’t like parsnips, don’t make this bread.  Why on earth you would shun a parsnip, though, is beyond me.  I’ve most often compared them to “white carrots”, which is exactly what … Continue reading

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Spiced Sweet Potato Cornbread

Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables Originally, I was going to make a pumpkin bread today.  But I didn’t for two reasons: 1) there remains a gentle controversy in my household as to whether or not a pumpkin is a vegetable … Continue reading

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Spinach-Filled Basil Baguette

Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables When searching for a recipe that involved spinach in bread, I found recipes that fell squarely into two camps: one that involved marbling spinach into a plain (often purchased pre-made and frozen) dough, and another … Continue reading

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Curried Cauliflower Flatbread

Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables First, I would like to say that it is very important to use a nonstick pan for this recipe.  If you have a cast iron pan, now’s the time to use it.  If you don’t … Continue reading

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Potato Bread

Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables Since last week was devoted to breads made with fruits, I thought it only appropriate to focus on vegetable breads as a follow up for this week.  One of the first ideas that came to … Continue reading

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Pear Ginger Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit Quick, name a flavor that goes perfectly with a pear!  If you said “ginger”, you get a gold star.  Pear and ginger are best friends, you guys.  It’s true!  If you’ve never tried the combination … Continue reading

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Chocolate Apricot Yeast Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit The bread for today is an unusual chocolate bread.  Most chocolate breads that I’ve made get their flavor from either cocoa powder sifted into the flour, from bits of chocolate mixed into the dough, or … Continue reading

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Apple Challah

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruits I know, this is not a braided bread.  Therefore, some might say it’s not “real” challah.  But in the parlance of our times, challah refers to any fairly standard egg-rich, sweet bread made with water only, so … Continue reading

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Blueberry Oatmeal Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruits Blueberries are one of my all-time favorite foods.  I love the little snap as you bite through the skin, I love their jammy, almost-tart sweetness, I love the way they stain your fingers and lips.  … Continue reading

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Mango Honey Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit I wasn’t kidding yesterday, when I mentioned making a sourdough bread with mangoes.  I recently stumbled across this recipe on the King Arthur Flour website, and I just had to try it.  The original didn’t … Continue reading

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