What are you Baking today?

[Ian M.]

Doggone, Joe, those look wonderful. They sure put Thomas' to shame! There's nothing in the world better than a hot, grilled English Muffin, dripping in butter with maybe some honey. Yum! Now I'm hungry for some and I just finished two of them with dropped eggs and ham on top. Soooo good! But I'll wager they weren't nearly as good as the ones you made!

Ian

 

[lilbopeep]

My first try at Joe’s No knead bread recipe (AWESOME!). It tastes fantastic toasted and buttered! Can't wait to make some "dipping" eggs. LOL Thank you Joe!

 

[lilbopeep]

Trying out a new recipe. Of course I played with it. LOL The name of the recipe is Pumkin Bars BUT I added a lot of spices so it is more of a pumpkin spice cake. Waiting for it to cool so I can ice it with a spiced cream cheese icing.

 

[lilbopeep]

Trying out a new recipe. Of course I played with it. LOL The name of the recipe is Pumkin Bars BUT I added a lot of spices so it is more of a pumpkin spice cake. Waiting for it to cool so I can ice it with a spiced cream cheese icing.

First run of Pumpkin Spice Bars based on a recipe from someone on another forum. Man are they good but next time I will cut the sugars in half. 4 thumbs up on this recipe.

 

[JoeV]

My first try at Joe’s No knead bread recipe (AWESOME!). It tastes fantastic toasted and buttered! Can't wait to make some "dipping" eggs. LOL Thank you Joe!

You're welcome, Peeps. Gotta watch out though, cuz it's addicting.

 

[lilbopeep]

You're welcome, Peeps. Gotta watch out though, cuz it's addicting.

LOL

 

[QSis]

Ooooo, baby! That bread and those pumpkin bars look luscious!!

Beautiful, peep!

Lee

 

[lilbopeep]

Ooooo, baby! That bread and those pumpkin bars look luscious!!

Beautiful, peep!

Lee

Thank you Lee.

 

[Mama]

Both the bread and the pumpkin bars looking delicious Peepers! I hope you'll post that pumpkin bars recipe when you get it adjusted to your liking.

 

[lilbopeep]

Both the bread and the pumpkin bars looking delicious Peepers! I hope you'll post that pumpkin bars recipe when you get it adjusted to your liking.

Thank you Mama. I may need to do some more ............. research!!

 

[Mama]

The Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Bread just came out of the oven. I made apple butter in the crock pot to go with it.

 

[Shermie]

Dag, that looks DELISH, Mama!!!

I was at your Facebook page and your website. Great work!!!

 

[Mama]

Thank you Shermie!

 

[Shermie]

You welcome! Great looking food, BTW!!!

 

[lilbopeep]

WOW!!

 

[JoeV]

Up early so I got cracking with my baking. Having guests this weekend so I made 2 dozen Italian sandwich thins, two loaves of Italian sandwich bread and made a small loaf from the left over wheat olive oil pizza dough from the other night. That should be good when I slice it around lunch time.

 

[chocolate moose]

fudge marble cake from a mix. hehehehe

 

[QSis]

Beautiful, Joe!

Do you make sandwiches with two of the little round things?

Lee

 

[JoeV]

Beautiful, Joe!

Do you make sandwiches with two of the little round things?

Lee

Yes. Surprisingly, they are quite satisfying and you are basically using one slice of bread instead of two.

 

[Mama]

I made a couple of loaves of Italian Bread this afternoon.

 

[JoeV]

Very nice, Mama. Sometime you might want to try baking the Italian bread in a loaf pan. I do this so we can have toast that doesn't disappear in the toaster, and it makes for full size sandwiches. Just an idea to try sometime. BTW, the loaf pan uses the same amount of dough as the free-form loaves.

 

[Mama]

Thanks Joe...I'll try that next time. My DD likes me to slice one of these loaves lengthwise, spread it with a bunch of garlic and herb compound butter, wrap in foil and bake it. It goes great with spaghetti and lasagna.

 

[JoeV]

I have a new customer who is gluten intolerant. She's a sweet 80+ year-old lady who has made me salads with all the fixins from her garden for my lunch, made me cookies, and kept me hydrated with ice water and tea since Monday. She's more like my grandma than my customer. So, last night I made my first gluten free loaf of bread and gave it to her this morning. The recipe was basic;

Rice Flour
Sugar
Gluten Free baking powder
Salt
Egg
Milk
Veg. Oil

I thought it was pretty boring, not to mention tasteless (like those cardboard sandwich thins in the stores), so I replaced the sugar with honey, added some mixed Italian herbs and some dehydrated vegetable flakes.

I had no idea how this was going to turn out, but I was pleasantly surprised. I don't know what the crumb SHOULD look like, but it held together enough to cut, toast and butter, and it tasted very good. Any comments on if this looks right or needs some help, would be greatly appreciated. FWIW, I stopped after work and bought a package of Bob's Red Mill Xanathan Gum so I can make a GF loaf with yeast the next time.

 

[QSis]

Looks great to me, Joe!

I bet it's wonderful, especially toasted!

I'm going to send this post to a bread-baking friend whose wife is gluten-sensitive, and she/they may have some pointers to pass along.

Lee

 

[JoeV]

Looks great to me, Joe!

I bet it's wonderful, especially toasted!

I'm going to send this post to a bread-baking friend whose wife is gluten-sensitive, and she/they may have some pointers to pass along.

Lee

Thanks, Lee. From the online research I've done this evening, it looks like the crumb is what can be expected from GF bread, which is fairly dense. I need to check the hydration % to see how it compares to recipes like banana bread and zucchini bread.

 

[Mama]

The buns for the sliders just came out of the oven! Is there a better smell than fresh baked bread?

 

[lilbopeep]

The buns for the sliders just came out of the oven! Is there a better smell than fresh baked bread?

Looks good!

I am hoping that I can get a new bread maker from amazon soon. It would be healthier, fresher and cheaper to make bread fresh.

 

[Mama]

I've been using my KA stand mixer to make bread Peepers. I use my bread machine recipes. I put all of the wet ingredients in the mixer first with the dough hook. I mix together all of the dry ingredients (I use instant yeast). Add that to the wet ingredients with the mixer turned on #1. Once it comes together and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, I turn the speed up to #2 and knead 5 to 10 minutes until I like the consistency of the dough. Then remove the dough from the bowl, grease the bowl, form the dough into a ball, turn the ball around to grease the dough, cover and let rise an hour. Form into loaves, put in the pans, cover and let rise another hour and bake. I don't do any kneading by hand. I'm not going to go back to a bread machine. It really isn't any more effort using the mixer and it's one less appliance to deal with storing.

I buy my yeast in the big bags at Sam's and keep it in the freezer in a ziplock freezer bag. It will last a LONG time in the freezer. It goes straight from the freezer into the flour.

 

[ChowderMan]

pretty much identical to my generalized approach.

I also do very little kneading by hand - shaping - yes. but the KA dough hook and a timer does my kneading (g)

bread machines are very limited - I really recommend folks simply learn how to mix, knead & rise breads - it's not rocket science. plus, you don't tear up the loaf getting the stupid paddle out . . .

 

[lilbopeep]

I've been using my KA stand mixer to make bread Peepers. I use my bread machine recipes. I put all of the wet ingredients in the mixer first with the dough hook. I mix together all of the dry ingredients (I use instant yeast). Add that to the wet ingredients with the mixer turned on #1. Once it comes together and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, I turn the speed up to #2 and knead 5 to 10 minutes until I like the consistency of the dough. Then remove the dough from the bowl, grease the bowl, form the dough into a ball, turn the ball around to grease the dough, cover and let rise an hour. Form into loaves, put in the pans, cover and let rise another hour and bake. I don't do any kneading by hand. I'm not going to go back to a bread machine. It really isn't any more effort using the mixer and it's one less appliance to deal with storing.

I buy my yeast in the big bags at Sam's and keep it in the freezer in a ziplock freezer bag. It will last a LONG time in the freezer. It goes straight from the freezer into the flour.

My KA is WAY to heavy to be pulling out often and no counter space to leave it out. I used to do bread completely by hand which I prefer to do over ANY machines but can't any more.