Posts under ‘bread’

I recently had the fortune to put my hands on a 22 years old pasta madre, levain, sourdough (kind courtesy of Semerssuaq*).
I was always afraid of sourdough: I mean, it’s alive! What if it dies? What if I kill it???
Well, apparently it’s not so simple to kill it! If you take good weekly care of [...]

I love Julia Child! Love, love, love her! Last summer I read her biography and I was just startled by her voice: clear, gentle, friendly…So, when I saw this month challenge I thought: “GREAT! A dream comes true!!!”I knew that when Mary and Sara chose this particular recipe they were going in the right direction [...]

Warm focaccia filled with Parma Prosciutto: to die for!!!
Last time I’ve seen Annemarie in London, we just ended the Bostoni Cream Pie challenge, and we were a bit disappointed about our Chiffon cake turned out…Then we moved to one quite corner, and whispering, we spoke about the new challenge. She already had the time to [...]

Today it’s World Bread Day!!!!I consider focaccia a type of flat bread, as it is the way I eat it most of the time: if I have friends coming over and I do not have fresh bread, I knead a focaccia (my Kenwood chef knead a focaccia, to be precise), and the appetizers are saved!And [...]

“Waiter there’s something in my bread” really encouraged my bakery instincts! After the bread I baked yesterday my only thought was: “Bake! Bake! Bake!”!!! Plus I was truly inspired by some of the wonderful entries, and especially by Patricia’s recipe, so I hope she won’t mind if I made something similar, yet different, to her [...]

I find this monthly challenge very interesting, not only for the funny title, but even for the theme they choose! And it’s indeed a challenge fo me: never made a pie before and I’m not so much of a bready person. I like to eat bread, but make it sometimes seem to long and complicated… [...]

A ship loaded with… And my answer to this childish game was always: POTATOES!!!But not in this case!Here how I filled my bagels: ricotta mixed with stracchino (just because I hate average cream cheese and I prefer to make my own personal idea of it!) and grilled vegetables marinated in balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive [...]

I’m Italian and I’ve almost ever lived in Italy (if you take off some month in France and some others in England…). And that should be enough to explain you which kind of relationship I can have with bagels: none! I’ve seen them in movies, on tv, but I’ve never ate a REAL one in [...]

Give me something light and not too sweet for breakfast. Give me something yeasty too. Give me a simple, quick, plain recipe, that can be made by everyone. Give me something I can made over the weekend and that will last at least few days. Give me something with LOADS of raisins in it.Can you [...]

That’s my second attempt to make bread… It’s still hot, I’ll let you know… Right now, just say thank you to Linda Collister, and Petula, whom lent me the book…